.7)// the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson. 



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17 10: Bacon's Liber Regis, 1786; "Browne Willis's Parochiale 

 Anglicanum, and the "Liber Scholasticus/' an abridgement from 

 the Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the 

 Revenues of the Established Church, presented to Parliament in 

 L835, which contains the dedication names, so far as was known, of 

 every church in England and Wales. 



In some instances these authorities do not agree : and the causes 

 of uncertainty are various. 1. It was sometimes the case in ancient 

 times that one part of a church was finished and consecrated before 

 another part : and the name given to a part may have been mistaken 

 for the name of the whole. 2. There were also chantry chapels in 

 the church, each having its altar and name. Confusion has arisen 

 from this. 3. The village least or revel, originally a religious festival 

 instituted to mark the day of consecration, is generally, but not 

 invariably, good evidence of the name of the church. 4. Sometimes 

 upon the rebuilding or restoration of a church a new name was given; 

 and 5, sometimes when the name had been forgotten the accidental 

 discovery of some fresco-painting of a saint has led to that name 

 being adopted. 



If a name cannot be found in any of the authorities above-men- 

 tioned, it might possibly be met with in ancient records relating to 

 the parish preserved at the Diocesan Registries : especially in mediae- 

 val or pre-Reformation wills. Testators frequently specified by name 

 the church in which they desired to be buried, or to the repair of 

 which they made some bequest of money. 1 



1 For some of these observations the writer is indebted to various correspond 

 dents in Notes and Queries. 



2 So in the King's Book. The village feast happening to be held on the Monday 

 nearest to St. Mary Magdalen's day has sometimes connected that name with 

 the church. 



8 So in Ecton and Bacon. In Wilts Mag. (xi., 14) All Saints is considered 

 more probable. 



I. — Names of Parishes. 



Aldbourne 

 Alderbury 

 Alderton 



St. Michael 2 Allington (near Amesbury) St. 

 B. V. Mary John Baptist 



St. Giles Ald Cannings St. Anne 3 



