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LONDON, SATURDAY, NAT 10, 1913.

CONTENTS.-No. 176.

NOTES -.Church Goods in the Seventeenth Century, 361 'Edwin Drood,' 362 "Meend," "Myende," "Meand, 363 The Hessian Contingent : American War of Indepen- denceJohn Bearblock, 364 ' Stamford Mercury,' 365 Richard Burbage Percivall Pott, F.R.S. Queen Eliza- beth's "My own Crow "Cornish Wills, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 366 " Paw-paw " in the 'N.E.D., 387.

QUERIES : British Ambassador in France, 1595 C. Lees R.S.A. : ' The Golfers 'James Raleigh of Rawleystown, 367 Unpublished Douglas Line John Moncure Anne Berners A Curious Bactrian Coin Mediaeval Monastic Mortars, 368 Authors Wanted 'The Tomahawk' Coming of Age Strode Family in America Abolition ol Tenure by Knight Service Button-Makers Biographical Information Wanted Harcourt's Electioneering Squibs 'Monte Cristo,' 369 'The Gigantick History' St. James's, B.C. : Eighteenth - Century Wills Rev. A. Hedley English Chanteys Burial - Place of Benedict Arnold's Wife "Dowler" FitzGerald and Omar Khayyam, 370.

REPLIES : Barnard Family, 370 "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea," 371 Royal East London Volunteers. 372 The Red Hand of Ulster Author Wanted, 373 Old - time Children's Books Early Short- hand Society, 374 Diminutive Almanacs Sir John Gilbert: Paper and Newspaper Duties White Horses, 375 The Works of John Pechey, Physician The Date- Letters of Old Plate Obelisk at Orange Grove, Bath : Memorial of Mary, Queen of James IL St. Katharine's- by-the-Tower, 376 French Premiers : Christian Names Wanted History of Churches in Situ Sydney Smith and L.C.C. Tablets Author of Quotation Wanted Early English Printed Books "Vox populi vox musae," 377 East Anglian Families : Hus and Gosse Two Kentish Memorials The Younger Van Helmont " Bucca-boo," 378.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'A Londoner's London' 'The British Archivist' 'The Nineteenth Century.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

CHURCH GOODS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

THE following list is taken from the Pew Book of the Church of St. Thomas, Sarum, and it is interesting as giving us a glimpse of what had been preserved after the pillage of the churches by the very Christian King Henry VIII. and his son Edward VI.. or rather Edward's even more unscrupulous relations. It begins :

An Inventure of all such plate and goods as are in and belongeth to the parishe Church of St. Thomas taken the 20th day of June Ano Dili 1609 by George Churchhouse Churchwarden for that yeare :

In primis one communion cupp & kever of silver and gilt weyinge sixteen ownces & halfe.

Item one other communion cupp and kever of playne silver weying twelve ownces, halfe & halfe quarter.

Item one sporot pott of silver with wa [?] 'given by Master Augustine Abbott weyinge twentie nine & halfe & halfe quarter.

Item Two plates of silver & parcell gillt weyinge nyne & halfe & halfe quarter.

The roome over Vestrye.

In primis ii greate chests & presses with ii leaves i boxe for a crucifixe i broade cheste in the which the copes were layd i standing stocke for a Deske to be set uppon.

Two points are worth note here. The box for the crucifix had been preserved all through Elizabeth's time, and also the chest for the church copes, long vanished, unless the piece in the lower vestry is part of one. In the Vestrye.

In primia i table board and forme of joyned worke.

i Iron bound chest i Deske cloth of silke.

iii cushins of copes wrought with gold.

i pulpit clothe of cloth of gold.

i other pulpit, clothe of black. and red velvet.

i fayre coveringe fop the communion table of clothe of gold and blue velvet wrought with gold.

i fayre hangings for the body of the table of branched sattin wrought with spread eagles in gold

iii whit tableclothes of linnen for the communion table.

ii longe towells for the formes.

i plde carpet of turkine woorke.

iii supplices [surplices] save but one surples.

i Crosse candelstick with iii sconsses fall erased.]

The spread eagles in gold are the sup- porters of the arms of the City of Salisbury. In the Quire.

Item one communion table, silke clothe and hang- ings to the same alwayes lying uppon it.

Item vii formes vi roling matts for the commu- nion [does this mean mats that roll up after- wards?] a standing pillar of wood for a caridel- sticke.

Item a forme, a borde and a litle deske to kneel uppon about the communion table [apparently the survival of the prie-dieu, which is curious in 1609 ; the " borde" I do not understand the use of

Item a settle to put books in.

Item vi singing bookes 4 of them with red kevers and ii with parchment.

iii service bookes i old large bible.

i booke of homelies (erased).

Item ii sconces for candells.

Item a booke of sermons uppon Joell called Tymes lamentation.

In the Churche.

Item 1 standinge Deske with a foote stepp.

1 Fayre lampe of brasse.

1 boke called the paraphase [fiic] of Erasmus tyed with chaynes.

i houre glasse.

ii bordes and ii payre of tresles to put the bread uppon for the poore people.

vii tables hanging about the churche.

xii lether buckets hanginge.

Iron rod with a locke.

A Deske to say morning prayer on.