it JVvmorals of the 



$l0xto0rth Church, 



(WITH PLATE). 



in 



lovsct, 



By JAMES SALTER, Esq., P.R.S., &c., &c., of 

 Basingfield, Hampshire. 



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WO achievements of armorial heraldry relating to 

 the Savage Family, painted on the walls of the 

 Manorial Pew in Bloxworth Church, were destroyed 

 many years ago to admit of the erection of mural 

 "^r^f^?" monuments of the Trenchard and Pickard 



Families. It is, perhaps, more than possible that 

 those remaining may, sooner or later, be also " improved away." 

 Such a proceeding would be very deplorable, and the only way in 

 which its evil consequences can be mitigated is by an accurate 

 record of them by illustration, as well as by description, being 

 made and published. 



The destruction of Family Memorials in the alterations, or the 

 so-called restorations, of our churches is a public calamity and a 

 grievous offence, for it not only obliterates an important part of the 

 histories of the families implicated, but it thereby violates so much 

 of our common national history. 



An incalculable amount of harm has already been done in this 

 direction, and the only way, to prevent this species of destruction 

 from further obliterating evidence and history, will be a general 



