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Books chained to Doslis in Churches : Font Inscription : 



Parochial Libraries, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. - 



Keal Signatures versus Pseudo-names, by the Rev. James 



Graves ....... 



Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, by Vincent 

 T. Sternberg ...... 



Shakspeare Correspondence, by Cecil Harbottle, &c. - 

 Epitaph and Monuments in Wingfield Church, Suffolk - 

 Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta - 



Minor Notes: — Meaning of "Clipper" — Anathema, 

 Maran-atha — Convocation and the Society for the 

 Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts — Pigs 

 said to see the Wind — Anecdote of the Duke of 

 Gloucester ...... 



Queries : — 



Lord William Russell 

 Ancient Furniture — Prie-Dieu 



. 100 

 - 101 



Minor Queries :— Reynolds' Nephew —Sir Isaac New- 

 ton — Limerick, Dublin, and Cork — Praying to the 

 W'est — Mulciber — Captain Booth of Stockport — 

 "A saint in crape" — French Abbes — What Day is it 

 at our Antipodes ? — " Spendthrift " — Second Growth 

 of Grass — The Laird of Brodie — Mrs. Tighe, Au- 

 thor of" Psyche " — Bishop Ferrar — Sir Thomas de 

 I.ongueville — Quotations wanted — Symon Patrick, 

 Bishop of Ely : Durham : Weston : Jephson — The 

 Heveniiighams of Suffolk and Norfolk — Lady Percy, 

 Wife of Hotspur (Daughter of Edmund Mortimer, Earl 

 of March)— Shape of Coffins— St. George Family Pic- 

 tures — Caley (John), "Ecclesiastical Survey of the 

 Possessions, &c. of the Bishop of St. David's," &c. — 

 Adamson's " Lusitania Illustrata" — Blotting-paper — 

 Poetical Versions of the Fragments in Athenseus - 102 



Replies: — 



Robert Drury . - . . . .104 



Tlie Termination -by .... - 105 



The Kosicrucians, by William Bates - . - 106 



Inscriptions on Bells, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. • 108 

 Was Cook the Discoverer of the Sandwich Islands ? by 



C. K. Bagot 108 



Megatherium Americanum, by W. Pinkerton . - 109 



Photographic Correspondence :— Stereoscopic Angles 



— Yellow Bottles for Photographic Chemicals • 109 



Eeplies to Minor Queries : — Earth upon Earth, &c. 



— Picalyly — Mr. Justice Newton — Manners of the 

 Irish — Anns of the See of York — " Up, Guards, and 

 at 'em !"— Coleridge's Christabel : the 3rd Part — 

 Mitigation of Capital Punishment— The Man with 

 the Iron Mask — Gentleman executed for Murder of a 

 Slave — Jahn's Jahrbuch — Character of the Song of 



the Nightingale, &c. ..... 110 



Miscellaneous : 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted . » • - 1 14 



Notices to Correspondents . • - - 114 



Advertisements - . . . . -115 



V0L.VIII. — No. 196. 



BOOKS CHAINED TO DESKS IN CHURCHES : FONT 

 INSCRIPTION : PAROCHIAL LIBRARIES. 



It would be interesting to have a complete list 

 of the various books still to be found chained to 

 desks in our ancient churches. The " Bible of the 

 largest volume," the " Books of Homilies allowed 

 by authority," and the Book of Common Prayer, 

 are ordered by Canon 80. to be provided for every 

 church. In some places this regulation is still com- 

 plied with : at Oakington, Cambridgeshire, a copy 

 of a recent (1825) edition of the Homilies lies on 

 a small desk in the nave. But besides these au- 

 thoritative works, other books are found chained. 

 to their ancient desks : at Impington, Cambridge- 

 shire are, or were, " three black-letter volumes of 

 Fox's Ma7'tyrs chained to a stall in the chancel."' 

 (Paley's Ecclesiologist's Guide^ ^c.) At St. Ni- 

 cholas, Rochester, chained to a small bracket desk 

 at the south side of the west door, is a copy of A. 

 Collection of Cases and other Discourses to recover 

 Dissenters to the Church of England, small 8vo., 

 1718. The Paraphrase of Erasmus may probably 

 be added to the list (see Professor Blunt's Sketch of 

 the History of the Reformation, 10th edit., p. 130.), 

 though I cannot call to mind any church in which 

 a copy of this work may now be found. In the 

 noble minster church at Wimborne, Dorsetshire, . 

 is a rather large collection of books, comprising; 

 some old and valuable editions : all these books>: 

 were, and many still are, chained to their shelves f 

 an iron rod runs along the front of each shelf, on 

 which rings attached to the chains fastened to the 

 covers of the works have free play ; these volumes 

 are preserved in an upper chamber on the south 

 side of the chancel. The parochial library at St. 

 Margaret's, Lynn, Norfolk, is one of considerable 

 interest and importance ; amongst other treasures 

 are a curious little manuscript of the New Testa- 

 ment very neatly written, a (mutilated) black- 

 letter copy of the Sarum Missal, and many fine 

 copies of the works of the Fathers, and also of the 

 Reformers ; these are preserved in the south aisle 

 of the chancel, which is fitted up as a library, and 

 are in very good order. At Margate Church are 

 a few volumes, of what kind my note-book does 



