By Ven. Archdeacon Macdonald. 



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evensong tyme. This was there exercise every daie. All these 

 pews or carrells were all fynely wainscotted and verie close, all but 

 the forepart which had carved wourke that gave light in at their 

 carrell doures of waynscott. And in every carrell was a deske to 

 lye there bookes on. And the carrells was no greater than from 

 one stanchell of the wyndowe to another. And over against the car- 

 rells against the church wall did stande sertaine great almeries of 

 waynscott all full of bookes, wherein dyd lye as well the old aunc- 

 yent written Doctors of the Church, as other prophane authors, with 

 dyverse other holie men's workes, so that every one did studye, 

 what Doctor pleased him best, having the librarie at all tymes to 

 goe studye in besides there carrells.' Until better informed, there- 

 fore, I am disposed to conclude that this very remarkable relique is 

 a carrell used for study and meditation, and not a confessional 

 chair. Of the manus itself, I will only remark, that the singular 

 marking of each joint, and tip of the finger, as a separate subject 

 for pious meditation, might perhaps have been taken from the 

 common use of the hand in learning vocal music, which though 

 revived by Wilhelm, is as old as Guido d'Arezzo, in the eleventh 

 century." 



The brief admonitory sentences on the Hand are as follows : — • 



Nescis quantum, Nescis quoties, Dextm offendisti. 



Finis tuus Vita tua Venisti in 

 §J amavus est. brevis est. mundum Cum peccato. 



S Nihil tecum feres Vitam tuam Mortem tuam 



g nisi quod fecisti. non potes non potes Morieris, 



g Meditari elongare. evadere. • 



m debes 



te quod Nescis quo Nescis qualiter Nescis ubi Hora mortis 



| derenies. morieris. morieris. incerta est. 



2 



5 Cito oblivisceris Raro faciet Quibus bona Status tuus 



a cbaris. pro te hreres. relinquis pa- miserabilis 



rum faciet est. 

 pro te. 



Memorare novissima tua Non homo laeteris tibi copia si fluat aeris. 



Et in seternum non peccabis, Hie non semper eris , memor esto quod morieris. 



JEs evanebit: quod habes hie alter habebit. 



Corpus putrebit : quod agis tecum remanebit. 



Organ. In a.d. 1809, the sum of £1000 was given to the church- 

 wardens by Mr. William Bayley, a native of the village, to purchase 

 an organ for the church, which was accordingly procured from Mr. 

 England, the great organ builder of the day, for the sum of £400, 



