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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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No. 196.]
SATURDAY, JULY 30. 1853..
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                              Page
  Books chained to Desks in Churches: Font Inscription:
  Parochial Libraries, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A.        93
  Real Signatures _versus_ Pseudo-names, by the Rev.
  James Graves                                            94
  Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, by Vincent
  T. Sternberg                                            94
  Shakspeare Correspondence, by Cecil Harbottle, &c.      95
  Epitaph and Monuments in Wingfield Church, Suffolk      98
  Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta    99

  MINOR NOTES:--Meaning of "Clipper"--Anathema,
  Maran-atha--Convocation and the Society for the
  Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts--Pigs said
  to see the Wind--Anecdote of the Duke of Gloucester    100

  QUERIES:--
  Lord William Russell                                   100
  Ancient Furniture--Prie-Dieu                           101

  MINOR QUERIES:--Reynolds' Nephew--Sir Isaac
  Newton--Limerick, Dublin, and Cork--Praying to the
  West--Mulciber--Captain Booth of Stockport--"A saint
  in crape"--French Abbes--What Day is it at our
  Antipodes?--"Spendthrift"--Second Growth of Grass--
  The Laird of Brodie--Mrs. Tighe, Author of "Psyche"--
  Bishop Ferrar--Sir Thomas de Longueville--Quotations
  wanted--Symon Patrick, Bishop of Ely: Durham: Weston:
  Jephson--The Heveninghams of Suffolk and Norfolk--
  Lady Percy, Wife of Hotspur (Daughter of Edmund
  Mortimer, Earl of March)--Shape of Coffins--St. George
  Family Pictures--Caley (John), "Ecclesiastical Survey
  of the Possessions, &c. of the Bishop of St. David's,"
  &c.--Adamson's "Lusitania Illustrata"--Blotting-paper--
  Poetical Versions of the Fragments in Athenaeus        102

  REPLIES:--
  Robert Drury                                           104
  The Termination -by                                    105
  The Rosicrucians, by William Bates                     106
  Inscriptions on Bells, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A.     108
  Was Cook the Discoverer of the Sandwich Islands? by
  C. E. Bagot                                            108
  Megatherium Americanum, by W. Pinkerton                109

  Photographic Correspondence:--Stereoscopic
  Angles--Yellow Bottles for Photographic Chemicals      109

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Earth upon Earth,
  &c.--Picalyly--Mr. Justice Newton--Manners of the
  Irish--Arms of the See of York--"Up, Guards, and at
  'em!"--Coleridge's Christabel: the 3rd Part--Mitigation
  of Capital Punishment--The Man with the Iron Mask--
  Gentleman executed for Murder of a Slave--Jahn's
  Jahrbuch--Character of the Song of the Nightingale,
  &c.                                                    110

  MISCELLANEOUS:--
  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                           114
  Notices to Correspondents                              114
  Advertisements                                         115

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Notes.

BOOKS CHAINED TO DESKS IN CHURCHES: FONT INSCRIPTION: PAROCHIAL LIBRARIES.

It would be interesting to have a complete list of the various books still
to be found chained to desks in our ancient churches. The "Bible of the
largest volume," the "Books of Homilies allowed by authority," and the Book
of Common Prayer, are ordered by Canon 80. to be provided for every church.
In some places this regulation is still complied with: at Oakington,
Cambridgeshire, a copy of a recent (1825) edition of the Homilies lies on a
small desk in the nave. But besides these authoritative works, other books
are found _chained_ to their ancient desks: at Impington, Cambridgeshire
are, or were, "three black-letter volumes of Fox's _Martyrs_ chained to a
stall in the chancel." (Paley's _Ecclesiologist's Guide, &c._) At St.
Nicholas, Rochester, chained to a small bracket desk at the south side of
the west door, is a copy of _A Collection of Cases and other Discourses to
recover Dissenters to the Church of England_, small 8vo