Certificates of Burials in 



And again, opposite to the entries of their deaths, we find 

 " November 11 th . Certified by John Torbuck, Yicar of Elling- 

 ham, y* Edward Baily and Nicholas Baily, of Ibsely, were 

 buried in woollen only." 



Pope's lines on Mrs. Oldfield need hardly here be quoted. 

 To conclude, of the parish books in the district let me only say 

 that at Fordmgbridge may be found an inventory of all the 

 church furniture for 1554; at Christchurch, notes of a Papist 

 buried by women, for no one else would place her in the grave ; 

 and entries of lay marriages ; at Ibbesley, lists of collections 

 "towards the redemption of the poor slaves out of Turkey," 

 " for the poor French Protestants," " for the redemption of 

 captives," and " for the distressed Protestants beyond the sea," 

 all testifying to the social and moral condition of the people, 

 without which it is impossible to give the history of any district 

 or any country. 



The .Norman Font in Brockenhurst Church. 



II II 2:;.? 



