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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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last century, and the king therefore conferred 
upon the firm the exclusive right to print and 
publish a handsome quarto edition of the Vulgate. 
In the recent insurrection at Naplous, the 
populace burnt the books which they found in the 
Protestant and Greek churches. 
The preceding are the chief illustrations which 
Ihave met with, of the principle involved in a 
line which I have somewhere seen: 
“Tis but to burn your books, the shortest way.” 
Doubtless many others still remain, which your 
Jearned readers may recollect and communicate. 
B. H. Cowrer. 
CROOKED NAVES. 
(2"4 §. i. 432.) 
With reference to your correspondent K., who 
wishes for information respecting crooked naves, 
I beg to send the following reference, which may 
be of use to him. " 
In a small privately-printed work, called Volun- 
tary Contributions, edited by Lady Mary Fox, 
vol. ii., for the year 1836, he will find the “ Frag- 
ment of a Tour round France;” and as these 
books may not be easily procured, I will give you 
the extract that treats upon the crooked naves: 
“ Quimper has a fine old cathedral dedicated to Saint 
Corentin, much ornamented outside, but disfigured by 
small hovels and shops built up against the walls. On 
entering the cathedral, I was immediately struck by its 
singular construction. From the screen the chancel 
forms an angle with the nave, and for some time I was 
puzzled with this strange concetto, as I thought it must 
be, of the architects. I, however, subsequently found the 
following explanation of it in Freminvilie’s Antiquités de 
la Bretagne, p. 294.: 
“<T?Evéque Bertrand de Bormedée posa Ia premitre 
pierre de la cathédrale de Quimper le 26 Juillet, 1424. 
Son plan offre une singularité qui du reste ne lui est pas 
particuliere et qui se remarque dans quelques autres 
Eglises de la France; c’est que l’axe n’en est pas droit, et 
que l’extremité de l’abside n’est pas précisément en face 
du portail: cet axe vers le chceur s’encline sur la gauche, 
y decrivant une courbure sensible. Ceci n’est pas du, 
comme quelques uns l’ont cru, 4 un accident du terrein 
sur lequel est construit l’édifice: on sait positivement 
que cette bizarrerie est intentioné dans toutes “les Eglises 
ou elle se remarque, et c’est un motif religieux. Quelques 
architectes du moyen age voulaient faire allusion a la posi- 
tion inclinée que prit la téte de Jesus Christ l’orsqu’il ex- 
pira sur la croix.” ’ 
“Many English cathedrals have the choir*end a little 
out of the straight line; Norwich very much so.” 
The above is the quotation from the Mragment 
of a Journey. Ihave since seen a long description 
of this cathedral in the Voyage dans le Finisterre, 
a Cambray, p. 136., revised and augmented by 
. Souvestre, and printed at Brest, 1855, where 
K. may find more details. VoLrone. 
A art of the choir of Norwich Cathedral is 
slightly out of the right line. Ishall be very glad 
if any of your archeological readers who were 
present when this was pointed out at the meeting 
of the society some years ago, will advance a 
theory to account for the deviation. If I remem- 
ber rightly, the western end of the choir is that 
part which lies due west and east. It would be 
interesting to have a list of those churches at 
home and abroad which do not stand exactly east 
and west, and the amount of deviation; noting 
particularly whether the west end be depressed 
towards the south. I quite agree with K. that 
this is worth inquiry; and it concerns other 
matters besides church architecture. He Casa 
Diss. 
The parish church of Eastbourn, Sussex, is an 
instance of the crooked nave referred to by your 
correspondent K. R. R. A. 
Replies to Mlfnor Queries. 
Fragments of former Greatness (2° S. i. 405.) 
— Mr. Epwarps must not forget that the helmets, 
banners, swords, &c., till within the last fifty years 
so often found, and now, comparatively speaking, 
so seldom found in our old churches, are generally 
merely the remains of heraldic funerals, and not 
memorials of noble deeds. ‘The helmets and 
weapons are often mock articles made for the 
purpose. The escutcheon, the helmet, the flag, 
the sword, spurs, gloves, and tabar@ of the knight 
or esquire, were all required for a heraldic fu- 
neral, and were all suspended in the church. The 
wonder is that so few of these memorials have 
been allowed to remain. Poke 
In Kilkampton Church, Cornwall, not far from 
the site whereon Stowe, the magnificent mansion 
of Sir Bevell Grenville, was raised, there is still 
to be seen —.: gauntlet, tourists threat- 
ening, however, to destroy what time has spared. 
(bss ele 
Time taken in writing Black-Letter (2™ S. i. 
410.) — It may be interesting to give the results 
of a similar undertaking with that of LX., and 
compare them with the details given in his inter- 
esting communication. I amused and employed 
myself for a short time in the day, for some years, 
in restoring the leaves wanting in a fine old Sarum 
Missal in my possession. It is a large folio, and 
in excellent preservation. It belonged to Arch- 
bishop Chicheley, and was given by him as a part 
of the dowry of his niece on her marriage into the 
family of Darrell of Cale Hill in Kent. When I 
purchased it I found twenty-two leaves missing, 
one here and two or three there, and so on, in 
various parts of the Missal, besides the Calendar, 
which of course occupied six more leaves. Here, 
then, were fifty-six pages to be restored, and by 
industry and patience the task was accomplished. 
