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117, 158 | 6 th S. iii. 506 ; 8 th S. ii. 245 ; 10 th S i. 489 ; ii. 113. Most of these were indicatec at the last reference by MR. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN, to whom I am indebted for many helpful notes in the compilation of the paper he is good enough there to mention.

I have in my possession cuttings as follows which I may perhaps be allowed to offer as the nucleus of a bibliography of this in teresting subject :

Beating the Bounds. Chambers s Journal

23 July, 1853, pp. 49-52.

Beating the Bounds. City Press (long article) 29 May, 1889.

Beating the Tower Bounds (illustrated). Daily Graphic, 4 May, 1894.

Special message from Archbishop of Canterbury respecting Rogation tide and Parish Perambulations. Times, 4 May, 1896.

Beating the Bounds in Limehouse. East End News, 16 May, 1896.

Beating the Bounds in the City (illustrated). St. Paul's, 30 May, 1896.

Beating the Bounds at Greenwich (illustrated). Sketch, 3 May, 1896.

Praying for the Crops (Hitchin). Daily Mail,

24 May, 1897.

Beating the Bounds at the Tower. 75., 28 May, 1897.

Praying for the Crops (Hitchin). Ib., 16 May, 1898.

Rogationtide in an Essex Village. Church Times, 27 May, 1898.

Blessing the Crops (Gaywood). Christian World. 18 May, 1899.

Beating City Bounds. Daily Chronicle, 12 May,

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Searching for Plates (St. Benet, Gracechurch). Daily Mail, 15 May, 1900.

Blessing the Fisheries (Folkestone). 76., 2 July, 11)00.

Bounds Beating Curiosity (Tunbridge Wells). -76., 23 May, 1901. Beating the Bounds (Dorchester). Ib., 5 July,

Sheriff rides the Bounds (Lichfield). 76., 9 Sept., 1901. Praying for the Crops (Whitwell). 76., 8 May,

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Beating a River (South Molton). 76., 5 Sept.. 1902. Beating the Bounds (Sandwich). Ib., 15 April,

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Beating the Boundaries (Mendlesham). 76., 20 April, 1903.

Census Problem (Stutton). 76., 21 May, 1903.

Beating the Bounds (long article by W. G. Clarke). Norwich Mercury, 16 April, 1904.

Ordeal for Councillors (Uunstable). Daily Mail, 11 May, 1904.

Beating the Bounds (St. Lawrence, Jewry, and t. Mary Magdalen, Mi Advertiser, 21 May, 1904.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

The custom observed at Whitwell in Derby- shire (four miles from Worksop) is a recent revival by the present rector of the parish,

., ewry, an

St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street). East London

JOHN T. PAGE.

who, with much ceremony of a pleasing nature, " beat the bounds " at the head of the village choir and others of the parish in procession, almost with "bell, book, and candle." THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

ANCHORITES' DENS (10 th S. iii. 128, 234, 293, 333). The church of Bengeo, a suburb of Hertford, contains remains of one of these ankerholds. A description appears at pp. 80, 81 of vol. i. of the East Herts Archaeological Society's Transactions, but as it is of general interest I venture to transcribe it :

"The most interesting feature in the chancel [of Bengeo Church] is the ankerhold or anchorite's cell in the north wall, which is now rendered visible by an ingenious arrangement of sliding panels. The eastern aperture is cut completely through the wall, the western aperture is really only a recess in the wall. They are both some 4J ft. high, and less than 2 ft. wide, and are plastered with clay. There are holes above which seem to indicate that there was originally a penthouse* a few feet square attached to the outer wall, in which the anchorite lived, as a prolonged existence was impossible in the small cavities we see to-day. The recess was most likely his seat, and the open aperture gave him free access to the church. Above it on the inside are the remains of the iron hook which held a lamp, which it was the anchorite's duty to always keep burning. The latter feature is very unusual ; ordinary ankerholds simply had a squint cut through by which to view the altar, but this anchorite seems to have been allowed especial liberty."

W. B. GERISH.

Bishop's Stortford.

Primd facie, I should say that the testi- mony of Dr. Bigsby concerning Anchor Church, in the parish of Foremark, co. Derby, is valuable, as he was educated at Repton School, which is at no great distance from it, and was the author of the 'History of Repton ' and places adjacent, a large quarto volume, and well illustrated with numerous ngravings. We are reminded of Spenser'a beautiful lines in ' The Faerie Queen ' :

A little lowly hermitage it was Downe in a dale, hard by a foreste side : Far from the resort of people that did pass In traveill to and from ; a little wyde There was an holy chapelle edifyde Wherein the hermit dewly wont to say His holy things, each morne and eventyde ; Thereby a christall streame did gentle play,

from a sacred fountaine welled forth alway.

yompton, Surrey, with a quatrefoil opening froni he lower chancel. There is a similar opening in he north wall of the well-known church at Shere, although the penthouse has been removed, and a ike opening on the north side of the chancel at lichaelstow, Cornwall, and traces of a former lean- o building.
 * There is a similar erection in existence at