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judgment and steady application, qualities not 

 generally allowed to be the characteristic of the 

 nation. (Scott's Life of Theodore Agrippa cTAu- 

 bigne, p. 419.) 



In 1762 the Emilie of Jean Jacques Rousseau 

 was burnt at Geneva by the common hangman. 

 Le Contrat Social had soon afterwards the same 

 fate. {Biographic Universelle, article " J. J. Rous- 

 seau.") 



On June 17th, 1553, nearly the whole of the 

 edition of the De Christianismi Restitutione of 

 Servetus, which had been seized at Lyons, was 

 cast into the flames, and Servetus burnt in effigy 

 at Vienne in Dauphine. (Biographie Universelle, 

 art. " Servetus.") 



In 1538 the English Bible, printed by Grafton 

 at Paris, was (with the exception of a few copies) 

 burnt by the order of the Inquisition. During 

 the reign of Henry VIII. (observes Mr. D'ls- 

 raeli in Amenities of Literature, vol. iii. p. 358.), 

 the Bishop of Durham had all the unsold copies 

 of Tindal's Testament bought up at Antwerp and 

 burnt. In this age of unsettled opinions., both 

 Roman Catholic and Protestant books were burnt. 

 In the reign of Edward VI. Roman Catholic works 

 fed the flames. 



" All red-lettered illuminated volumes were chopped 

 in pieces with hatchets, and hurned as superstitious. 

 The works of Peter Lombard, Duns Scotus, and 

 Thomas Aquinas, carried on biers, were tumbled into 

 bonfires. In the reign of Mary pyramids of Protestant 

 volumes were burnt. All the Bibles in English, and 

 all the commentators upon the Bible in the vernacular 

 idiom (which we are told from their number seemed 

 almost infinite), were cast into the flames at the 

 market-place, Oxford." — D'Israeli's Amenities of Lite- 

 rature, vol. ii. pp. 164, 165. 



In Strype's Memorials (3rd part, 2nd ed., p. 

 130.) is a proclamation of Philip and Mary, " that 

 whoever finds books of heresy and sedition, and 

 does not forthwith burn the same, shall be executed 

 for a rebel." 



The Stationers' Company (who were granted 

 a charter of incorporation during the reign of 

 Philip and Mary) had power to seize, take away, 

 and burn books which they deemed obnoxious to 

 the state or to their own interests. 



" When Elizabeth was upon the throne, political 

 pamphlets fed the flames, and libels in the reign of 

 James I. and his son." — D'Israeli's Curiosities of Li- 

 terature, " Licensers of the Press." 



" In the first year of the reign of King William III., 

 a.d. 1688, a grand auto-da-fe was performed by the 

 University of Oxford on certain political works. 

 Baxter's Holy Commonwealth was amongst those con- 

 demned to the flames." — D'Israeli's Amenities of 

 Literature, vol. iii. p. 325. 



Perhaps some correspondent of " N. & Q." may 

 furnish other instances of books burnt. L. A. 



STONE PULPITS. 



(Vol. viii., p. 562.) 



To Mr. Kerslet's list I can add, from my own 

 county, St. John the Evangelist, Cirencester, 

 used ; SS. Peter and Paul, Northleach, used ; 

 Staunton, All Saints, in the Hundred of St. 

 Briavell's, Dean Forest, not used. 



The last has a curious double arrangement in 

 two storeys, like a modern reading-desk and pul- 

 pit, projecting west from the north side of the 

 chancel arch, or rather (if I recollect rightly, for 

 I took no notes on visiting the church) of the 

 west tower arch, and to both which there is 

 access from the newel leading to the ancient rood- 

 loft. 



To the above might be added those of Coombe, 

 Oxon ; Frampton, Dorset ; and Trinity Church, 

 Coventry : and if any other than those in churches, 

 the angular one in the entrance court in Magda- 

 lene College, Oxford, from which, formerly, the 

 University Sermon used to be preached on the 

 festival of St. John the Baptist, when the court 

 was strewed with rushes for the occasion (vide 

 Glossary of Architecture, in verb.) ; that in the 

 refectory of Tinterne Abbey, Monmouthshire ; 

 and the well-known exquisite specimen of the 

 later Fir4t Pointed period, occupying a similar 

 locality in the Abbey of Beaulieu, Hants, so ela- 

 borately illustrated by Mr. Carter in Weale's 

 Quarterly Papers. Brookthorpe. 



A collection of English examples alone would 

 make a long list. Besides the well-known one 

 (a.d. 1480) in the outer court of Magdalene Col- 

 lege, Oxford, the following are noted in the last 

 edition of the Oxford Glossary, viz. : — Beaulieu, 

 Hants (a. d. 1260) ; Beverley ; Chester ; Abbey 

 Garden, Shrewsbury : these are in refectories of 

 monasteries. In churches — at Cirencester ; 

 Coombe, Oxon (circa A. d. 1370) ; Frampton, 

 Dorset (circa a.d. 1450) ; Trinity Church, Co- 

 ventry (circa a.d. 1470) : the latter appears from 

 the cut to be stone. 



In the second edition of the Glossary is also 

 St. Peter's, Oxon (circa 1400). 



Devonshire abounds in good samples : see 

 Trans, of Exeter Architectural Society, vol. i., at 

 table of plates, and the engraved plates of three 

 very rich specimens, viz. Harberton, Chittlehamp- 

 ton, North Molton, each of which is encircled by 

 canopied niches with statues. 



At North Petherton, in Somersetshire, is a 

 curious grotesque human figure of stone, crouched 

 on the floor, supporting the pulpit (which is of 

 wood, as I think) upon his shoulders, Atlas-like. 



J. J. R. 



Temple. 



Mr. Kerseey desires a list of ancient stone pul- 

 pits. I can give him the following, but cannot 



