CHAINED BOOKS IN DORSET AND ELSEWHERE. 25 



IBBERTON, where the chained Book of Homilies, dated 

 1673, was examined by the members of the Field Club at 

 their meeting on Sept. 16th, 1913. 



LYME REGIS, which possesses two chained volumes 

 (a) a quarto black letter Geneva version of the Bible, 

 dated 1615, bound up with the Book of Common Prayer, 

 dated 1637, and (b) a black letter copy of Erasmus' Para- 

 phrase of the four Gospels, in which is the MS. note " This 

 Book pertaineth to Lyme Regis 1599." For a time these 

 books were lost ; but they were discovered in London and 

 restored to the Church, where they are now chained to their 

 original lectern. 



LYTCHET MINSTER, where the Whole Duty, of Man, 

 with chain affixed, may be seen in a glass-fronted case near 

 the vestry door. Both chain and book were formerly in the 

 vestry detached, though the book had evidently previously 

 had a chain affixed. [The church, with the exception of the 

 tower, was entirely rebuilt in 1833-4.] 



SPETISBURY. Here a copy of Jewel's Defence of the 

 Apology and other works (in black letter), dated 1631, was 

 removed from the church chest, in 1856, by the Rector, 

 Mr. Vizard, and was fastened to the bolt in the pillar on the 

 north side of the chancel arch, which, according to tradition, 

 was originally intended for the purpose. 



STRATTON (CHARMINSTER), which possesses a copy 

 of Jewel's Apology, the date of which is about 1615. It 

 was formerly chained to an open reading desk. It was 

 repaired in 1890, and is now enclosed under glass. 



STUDLAND, where a copy of the Life of Bishop Smythies 

 of the Universities Mission to Central Africa is chained to the 

 desk in the chancel, at the place where, as a boy, he used to 

 worship when his father was Vicar of the parish. 



WIMBORNE MINSTER. Amongst the books in the 

 "chained Library" is a dilapidated copy of Bishop Jewel's 

 works (which it is intended before long to have repaired). 

 But the chain is of a very different pattern from those 

 affixed to all the other volumes in the Library. And, 



