By the Rev, Canon J. E. Jackson. 99 
1742; Bacon’s Liber Regis, 1786; Browne Willis’s Parochiale 
Anglicanum, and the “ Liber Scholasticus,” an abridgement from 
the Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the 
Revenues of the Established Church, presented to Parliament in 
1835, which contains the dedication names, so far as was known, of 
every church in England and Wales. 
In some instances these authorities do not agree: and the causes 
of uncertainty are various. 1. It was sometimes the case in ancient 
times that one part of a church was finished and consecrated before 
another part: and the name given to a part may have been mistaken 
for the name of the whole. 2. There were also chantry chapels in 
the church, each having its altar and name. Confusion has arisen 
from this. 3. The village feast or revel, originally a religious festival 
instituted to mark the day of consecration, is generally, but not 
invariably, good evidence of the name of the church. 4. Sometimes 











_ upon the rebuilding or restoration of a church a new name was given; 
4 and 5, sometimes when the name had been forgvtten the accidental 
_ discovery of some fresco-painting of a saint has led to that name 
If a name cannot be found in any of the authorities above-men- 
tioned, it might possibly be met with in ancient records relating to 
_ the parish preserved at the Diocesan Registries : especially in mediz- 
Gi _val or pre-Reformation wills. Testators frequently specified by name 
the church in which they desired to be buried, or to the repair of 
which they made some bequest of money.! 
I.—Namus oF ParisHEs. 
AtppourNE St. Michael? | Atitineron (near Amesbury) St. 
_ ALpERBURY ~  -B. V. Mary John Baptist 
_ ALDERTON St. Giles | Atp Cannines St. Anne& 

; 1 For some of these observations the writer is indebted to various correspon~ 
_ dents in Notes and Queries. 
_ *Soin the King’s Book. The village feast happening to be held on the Monday 
nearest to St. Mary Magdalen’s day has sometimes connected that name with 
_ the church. 
- Soin Ecton and Bacon. In Wilts Mag. (xi,, 14) All Saints is considered 
_ ‘more probable. 
