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86 blemishes, a very valuable work has been produced, of which we must now proceed to give some account. The two parts before us, which complete the volume, contain a description of thirty-five churches, with woodcuts of their most remarkable features admirably executed, and historical notices of the principal events connected with each parish, the successive lords of the manor, or residents of importance; the two former parts contained forty-five parishes; the notices having increased considerably in length and importance in the later parts, containing in some instances much valuable and original research into cotemporary deeds and MSS. It is to be regretted that the work could not be extended into a complete county history upon this plan, but the Society appear to have gone as far as they could venture to reckon upon the support of the public.

Their researches have brought to light some curious examples previously unknown, or at least of which the knowledge was confined to a very limited number of persons. Among these we may mention the singular sculptures in Horsepath church, said to be the figures of a bagpiper and his wife who built the tower, against the walls of which they are placed.

The poppy-heads at Stanton St. .John's are the most curious that have ever fallen under our observation, and afford good specimens of the head-