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NEAR MUCH WENLOCK, SHROPSHIRE. 



By the Rev. O. P. CAMBRIDGE, M.A. 

 (Read January 27th, 1888.) 



Vol. III. of our "Proceedings," p. 34 (published 

 in 1879), I described and figured the curious old 

 hour glass and stand still existing in the parish 

 church at Bloxworth, noting also all the instances 

 I could collect of such stands or glasses, or 

 remains of them, still to be found in England. 

 These were by no means numerous, and in no case were both stand 

 and glass still in existence. During last winter, however, I re- 

 ceived information of both glass and stand still existing in the 

 parish church of Easthope, near Much Wenlock, in Shropshire, 

 and through the kindness of the rector, the Rev. Silas Crosse, and 

 his son, I am able to give you a description and to show you to-day 

 a sketch of this curious ornament. 



We have no clue to the exact date of the hour glass in Blox- 

 worth Church beyond the fleur-de-lys with which the stand is 

 ornamented, and which I am told points to its being Jacobean. 

 The glass and stand, however, in Easthope Church has its date 

 (1662) worked in an iron plate attached to the stand ; the fleur-de- 



