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Church, Suffolk ; Wolvercot, Oxon ; Northmoor, Oxon ; Hurst 

 Church, Berkshire; Compton Bassett Clmrch, Wilts; Cliffe Clmrch, 

 Kent ; Oxford Clmrch, Kent ; * Leigh Church (qy. county) ; Key- 

 ingham Church, near Hull; Puxton Clmrch, Somerset; Odell 

 Church, Bedfordshire ; and Hammoon Clmrch, Dorset. From an 

 inventory of items in All Saints' Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, it 

 seems that a half-hour glass once existed there, as well as one 

 which would run the whole hour. The frame of the glass in St. 

 Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street, appears to have been of silver, and 

 to have been not so very long ago melted down and made into two 

 staff-heads for the parish beadles, a barbarous utilization of an 

 ancient relic scarcely worthy of the end of the Nineteenth Century. 



ON A GLASS AND STAND IN HOLWELL CHURCH. 

 The parish church of Holwell, in the Yale of Blackmoor, which 

 was restored about two years ago, contains a glass and stand. The 

 stand, which is fixed in the masonry of the arch close to the 

 pulpit, is of iron, and quite plain. It is mentioned in Hutchins' 

 " History of Dorset " in the following words : " At the entrance, 

 near the pulpit is the stand for an hour-glass." Prior to the 

 restoration of the church the stand was empty. At the restoration 

 a glass, which was found in the house of a parishioner, was placed 

 in the stand. This glass, which is a half-hour glass, is cracked, and 

 is enclosed in a dark wooden frame. There is nothing to prove 

 that it belonged originally to this or any other church, although 

 perhaps its resemblance to glasses contained in churches elsewhere 

 might lead to that conclusion. M. G. STUART. 



* Nine Parishes (in various counties) named Leigh, and 13 other Leighs 

 with affixes or prefixes. 



