IQO "SMALLEY, ITS HISTORY AND LEGENDS." 



of three wooden rollers with ten facets, each bearing numerals ; 

 through the aid of this early example of a hymn-board, the 

 clerk and congregation were able to ascertain the number of 

 the Tate and Brady psalm that had been selected by the choir. 

 The gallery steps were honeycombed on each side by the 

 spiked crutches of one Jonathan Beniston. Old Beniston could 

 neither read print nor music, but he thought himself a valuable 

 member of the choir, as he contributed a droning bass accom- 

 paniment to the melodies, after the style, says Mr. Kerry, of 

 a bagpipe " chanter." This same kind of performance used 

 to be the custom in at least two other Derbyshire churches in 

 the first half of last century, namely, at Wingerworth, in East 

 Derbyshire, and at Alsop-en-le-Dale, in the Peak. This 

 droning is called " vamping," and used not infrequently to be 

 done for greater effect through a long kind of noteless foghorn 

 termed a " vamping horn." One of these horns, over 6 ft. long, 

 hangs in the vestry of East Leake church, Nottinghamshire. 

 This attractive-looking volume also contains various anti- 

 quarian details, and is admirably illustrated with photographic 

 plates. It is a distinctly desirable book for the Derbyshire 

 collector, and many will also like to possess it from pleasant 

 recollections of all that Mr. Kerry has done for this Society's 

 Journal in the past. 



