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By the Rev. G. F. Browne, B.D. 



HAVE been requested to put on paper some of 

 the remarks made in the course of an address 

 on the Sculptured Stones of Derbyshire, delivered 

 at the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great 

 Britain at Derby, in August, 1885. The address was illustrated 

 by a very large number of outlined rubbings, and so far as it 

 had any value, it depended for it on the comparison of the 

 Derbyshire stones with those of other districts. This comparison 

 can not be made without the illustrations, and thus my precis 

 of the address must be to a great extent devoid of interest. It 

 will, however, be useful to try to bring together into one paper 

 the various stones of this early type which Derbyshire possesses. 

 No one who sees this paper is likely to need the assurance that 

 without Dr. Cox's indefatigable labours, as represented in his 

 Churches of Derbyshire, I could not have undertaken to deliver 

 the address. My indebtedness to his work might be specially 

 noted on almost every page. I have not attempted any detailed 

 description of stones sufficiently described elsewhere. 



It may be well to say a word of apology for the illustrations. 

 They are reproductions of my rough rubbings, outlined with 

 pencil or ink, the latter giving the clearer effect. They are 

 photographed from the original rubbings, after the outlines have 

 been put in, on a scale of one inch to the foot, excepting those 



