can be lightly put aside by workers in the by-paths of history, theology, or 

 art. The illustrations have been specially drawn from the original seals by 

 Mr. Constance Canning, and are very carefully and finely executed. 



THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND 

 J. C. COX, LL.D., F.S.A. 



The object of these pages is to set forth both the general and particular 

 history of the wastes preserved for royal sport throughout England which 

 were under forest law. Short accounts of all these forests are given, and 

 in certain cases, such as Sherwood Forest, the Forest of the High Peak, 

 Needwood Forest, Cranborne Chase, the forests of Northamptonshire, 

 Cheshire, and Oxfordshire, Windsor Forest, Clarendon?Forest, Dartmoor, and 

 Pickering Lyth, much of their story is told in detail. It will be found that 

 by far the larger portion of the book deals with original material, chiefly 

 culled from the stores of the Public Record Office. The introductory chapters 

 give an outline description of the laws, courts, and ministers of the forests, 

 together with considerable fresh information as to red, fallow, and roe deer, 

 wild boar, wolf, and other beasts of the chase or warren. The punishment 

 inflicted by .forest courts for "vert," as well as "venison" offences, together 

 with accounts of wood sales, bring to light much that pertains to the earlier 

 tree-lore of England. The book is illustrated by a variety of reproductions 

 from old MSS. and early printed books, as well as by old plans, foresters' 

 gravestones, and ancient trees. 



CHURCH FURNITURE 



J. C. COX, LL.D., F.S.A., AND A. HARVEY, M.B. 



In these pages far fuller accounts than have yet been attempted are given, 

 from the earliest examples down to the end of the seventeenth century, of 

 such extant objects as altars, altar-stones, holy tables, altar rails, sedilia, 

 aumbries, piscinas, holy water stoups, Easter sepulchres, gospel lecterns, 

 pulpits, both of wood and stone, hour-glasses, candlesticks, chests, and poor- 

 boxes. Particular attention has been bestowed upon screens, stalls, bench- 

 ends, and seats. Fonts and font covers are treated with considerable fulness. 

 A short account is given of altar-plate, including pyxes, censors, and paxes. 

 Among the exceptional curiosities of later days, the several instances of those 

 remarkable instruments, the ' ' vamping horns," are set forth, and various 

 noteworthy examples of early royal arms and Tables of Commandments are 

 specified. Tentative lists, classified according to date, are given of the known 

 examples of these different objects of church furniture throughont England. 

 The illustrations are numerous, and for the most part original, or specially 

 drawn for this work. 



THESE VOLUMES WILL FOLLOW 

 FOLK-LORE IN EARLY BRITISH HISTORY 



G. LAWRENCE GOMME, F.S.A. 

 THE ROMAN OCCUPATION 



JOHN WARD, F.S.A. 

 CASTLES AND WALLED TOWNS OF ENGLAND 



ALFRED HARVEY, M.B. 

 THE DOMESDAY SURVEY 



ADOLPHUS BALLARD, B.A., LL.B. 

 THE BRASSES OF ENGLAND 



HERBERT W. MACKLIN, M.A. 

 ENGLISH HERALDRY 



T. SHEPARD 

 MEDIEVAL CHURCH LIFE IN ENGLAND 



ABBOT GASQUET, O.S.B., D.D., PH.D., D.Lrrr. 

 VILLAGE GEOGRAPHY 



W. RYLAND D. ADK1NS, B.A. 



Other Volumes are in course of arrangement. 



