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‘* Now the low beams with paper garlands hung, 
In memory of some village youth or maid, 
Draws the soft tear, from thrill’d remembrance sprung ; 
How oft my childhood marked that tribute paid ! 
The gloves suspended by the garland’s side, 
White as its snowy flowers with ribbands tied, 
Dear Village ! long these wreaths finereal spread, 
Simple memorial of the early dead.” 
Later (1818), Rhodes, in his Peak Scenery, speaking of Hathersage 
church, alludes to this custom as having been prevalent there, but 
rapidly falling into disuse. That it has not yet died out will be 
seen from what I noted last Wednesday in the same parish. Asa 
boy, above twenty years ago, I well remember noticing a paper 
garland of flowers with a pair of gloves hanging in Ilam Church, 
which I was told had been there a great many years.* 
Bakewell, one of the cleanest and prettiest little towns in the 
county, was reached next, after a walk of about two miles. The 
church is partly a very ancient structure, and contains many 
interesting monuments to the Vernon and Manners families, Sir 
Godfrey Foljambe, and others. The west doorway, together with 
the intersecting arches of the arcading above it, are Norman, and 
the arch of the doorway is decorated with what I took to be the 
zodiacal signs; the font is of the same period, I fancy, and has 
rude figures on each of its eight sides. In the churchyard is a 
mutilated cross of a similar style of ornamentation to the one at 
Eyam. On the front of the cross the figures appear to represent 
the birth, crucifixion, entombment, resurrection, and ascension of 
our Saviour ; on the reverse is Christ entering Jerusalem on an 
ass. ‘There are good baths here, and good inns in abundance; a 
pretty river, good fishing, and charming walks in every direction. 
We had still nearly four miles to walk to Rowsley, along “the 
sweet Vale of Haddon,” and, though too late to see its beauties, 
and too tired to thoroughly enjoy them if we could, I cannot pass it 
by without a word, for I think the view of Haddon Hall from the 
* Mr. Jewitt has an excellent article on aig Garlands in The Religuary, 
Vol. I.; p. 5; : 
