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saw him no more. We have preserved the copies of the 
writing on the walls. That on the south side of the window 
: x was the most perfect, and here is a copy 
| Je) ye tbat « of it. It appears to have been taken 
“and dpe ~Y either from thie Rheims verstat 1582, 
fe or the authorised of 1611, and is from 
910) Daa Jp, Pa- 1 Cor. xi. v. 29. The former version 
Y “nD dituke Pi reads, ‘‘ For he that eateth and drinketh 
- unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment 
AY: * to himself, not discerning the body of our 
yoled not th Lord.” The latter only differs in having 
; ” CV as ‘‘damnation’’ and ‘the Lord’s body.” 
Mm, We cannot decide which version it -is 
from, but Mr. H. H. Bemrose suggests that 
29:3 it may be a translation, and not a copy of 
an English version, in which opinion the 
Rev. J. C. Cox agrees. There were a few letters on the other 
side, and a scroll on the tower, all too indistinct and imperfect to 
be of use. The borders round the texts in the chancel were 
architectural in design, and Elizabethan or Jacobean in style (for 
drawings of these, see vol. i. Derbyshire Fac-simile Society). The 
inscriptions were written in one or other of those reigns—most 
« likely the latter, as Elizabeth did not favour the Rheims version ; 
James, being a shuffler, might. These texts were no doubt put 
up after the church had undergone restoration, others being 
obliterated in order that these might be put in their place. Frag- 
ments of the older ones could be seen underneath. ‘Those we 
have copied were entirely in black, the former ornaments had 
been in red. 
In conclusion, we cannot do better than quote Mr. Ruskin.* 
He says, “ When we build, let us think that we build for ever. 
Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone ; let 
it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us 
think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those 
* «Seven Lamps,” pp. 171-2. 
