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should not have a closed choirs and that they might have seats, if 

 not in the choir, at least in the north and south-eastern transepts. 

 Both these demands were looked upon as contrary to old arrange- 

 ments : but he believed that Canon Jones's book would show that 

 at Salisbury the returned stalls were a mistake, as it was a foundation 

 of secular canons, and that in the original design the laity sat in 

 the presbytery and the two eastern transepts, thereby surrounding 

 the altar. There was a direct order in part of the Old Sarum Use 

 that the priest walking round the altar should incense the people in 

 the transepts and in the presbytery. The other case he adduced 

 was about the use of colours at the different Church festivals and 

 seasons. The colours adopted by many in ignorance of the subject 

 were taken from the modern Roman Churches, whereas a study of 

 archaeology had shown that the colours of the Old Sarum Use were 

 taken partly from the Gallican Church and partly from the Eastern 

 Church, and so were one of the witnesses of our independence of 

 Rome. In these two instances it was clear that a true knowledge 

 would have avoided a cause of offence, and, if the deductions of 

 Canon Jones were correct, would have shown that a desire to act 

 according to the old order of things would have been in favour of 

 rather than against the natural desires of the people. His Lordship 

 then proceeded to point out that they might assist in increasing 

 their archaeological knowledge by preserving the old names of the 

 different fields and farms. Every field of the country had a name, 

 and many were still retained by mere tradition among the old 

 labourers and in the old parish maps and terriers. Some of more 

 modern date only referred to the size of the field on its comparatively 

 recent allotment, such as " Hundred acre," (which generally meant 

 " under acre,") and " Ten furlong," or the like, but there were much 

 older names than those, and if they ever attempted to walk the 

 bounds of an old Saxon charter many of the old names, if kept, 

 would help out the boundaries, and the specified points on the 

 boundaiy would give point and explanation to the names. Whelpley, 

 Wellow, Landford — often spelt with two I's — were a proof of the 

 British being originally to the east of their Christchurch Avon. 

 Cerdic's battle of Charford drove them to the other side, and caused 



