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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 216. 



antiquity, of which their characters beinor old 

 English, is a sufficient proof. W. B. D. 



At a soiree recently held at Crosby Hall, there 

 were exhibited by the churchwardens of St. 

 Benet's, Gracechurch Street, Erasmus' Commen- 

 tary on the Gospels in Englisli, with the chains 

 annexed, by which they were fastened in the 

 church. There are two volumes, in good pre- 

 servation, and black letter. 



In Minster Church, near Margate, Kent, there 

 is an oak cover to a Bible chained to a desk, temp. 

 Henry VIII. The whole of the letter-press has 

 been taken away (by small pieces at a time) by 

 visitors to this beautiful Norman church. 



J. W. Beown. 



At Bromsgrove Church, Worcestershire, a copy 

 of Bishop Jewel's Sermon on 1 Cor. ix. 16. (1609) 

 is chained to a small lectern. 



At Suckley Church, also in Worcestershire, 

 there is a black-letter copy of the Homilies, 1578. 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B A. 



There is a copy of Foxe's Monuments so chained 

 in the chancel of Luton Church, Bedfordshire. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M. A. 



THE COURT-HOUSE. 



(Vol. viii., p. 493.) 



This place is not " an old out-of-the-way place," 

 as described to F. M., but stands in a paddock ad- 

 joining the churchyard, in the town of " Painswick, 

 in Gloucestershire." It is a respectable old stone- 

 built house in the Elizabethan style ; and stands 

 on an eminence commanding a view of one of the 

 pleasant valleys which abound in this parish. I 

 do not know of, and do not believe that there 

 is, any " full description of it." Neither of the 

 county histories, of Atkyns (1712), Rudder (1779), 

 Rudge (1803), or Fosbrook (1807), mentions the 

 court-house, though probably it is referred to by 

 Atkyns as " a handsome pleasant house adjoining 

 the town, [then] lately the seat of Mr. Wm. 

 Rogers." 



If either Charles I. or II. slept there, it was 

 doubtless King Charles I., on the night of the 5th 

 of September, 1643, on which day he raised the 

 siege of Gloucester, and 



" Thousands of the royalist army marched in the 

 rain up Painswick hill, on the summit of which they 

 encamped in the ancient entrenchment of the part 

 called Spoonhed hill. On this hill, tradition says, as 

 Charles was sitting on a stone near the camp, one of 

 the princes, weary of their present life, asked him, 

 • When should they go home ? ' 'I have no home to 

 go to,' replied the disconsolate king. He went on to 

 Painswick, and passed the night there." — Bihliotheca 

 Gloucestiiensis (Webb), Introduction, p. 68., referring 



to Rudder (p. 592.) for the tradition as to the 

 colloquy. 



The lodge, an old wooden house, in this parish, 

 more properly deserves the character of an " old 

 out-of-the-way house." I remember it many 

 years ago, wlien it contained a court, in which 

 were galleries, approached by stairs, and leading 

 to the sleeping-rooms of the mansion ; such as 

 were formerly in the court-yard of the Bull and 

 JNIouth Inn, London, and are now in the yard 

 of the New Inn, Gloucester. P. H. Fisher. 



Stroud. 



ON THE SIMPLICITY OF THE CALOTTPE PROCESS, 

 BY DR. DIAMOND. 



(Read before the Photographic Society, Nov. 3, 1853.) 



I feel that some few words are required to 

 explain to the Society the reasons which have 

 induced me to call their attention to a branch of 

 pliotography, which of all others has been dwelt 

 upon most fully, and practised with such success 

 by so many eminent photographers. 



The flourishing state of this Society, which is 

 constantly receiving an accession of new Members, 

 indicates the great number that have lately com- 

 menced the practice of photography, and to those 

 I hope my observations will not prove unaccept- 

 able, because of all others the calotype process is 

 undoubtedly the simplest, and the most useful ; 

 not only from that simplicity, but from its being 

 available when other modes could not be used.* 



I am also induced to urge on the attention of 

 the Society the advantages of this, one of the 

 earliest processes, because I think that there has 

 been lately such an eager desire for something 

 new, that we all have more or less run away from 

 a steady wish to improve if possible the original 

 details of Mr. Fox Talbot ; and have been tempted 

 to practise new modes, entailing much more care 

 and trouble, without attaining a correspondingly 

 favourable result. 



Amongst antiquaries I have long noticed, that 

 many who have especially studied one particular 



* In a communication I formerly addressed to my 

 friend the Editor of " N. & Q.," one of the arguments 

 I used in favour of the collodion process was, that the 

 operator was enabled at once to know the results of his 

 attempts ; and was not left in suspense concerning the 

 probable success, as with a paper picture requiring an 

 after-development. 



I made tliat ol)servation not only from the partial 

 success which had then attended my own manipula- 

 tions, but from the degree of success which was at- 

 tained by the majority of my photographic friends. 

 But that objection is now almost entirely removed by 

 the comparative ceitainty to which the paper process 

 is reduced. 



