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Rh After the fort, the chief pride of Annapolis Royal is without doubt the sumptuous prayer-book whose fly leaf bears, in clear spaced handwriting, the dedication,

In the year mentioned, the Bishop of London and a great concourse of dignitaries celebrated at Annapolis the two hundredth anniversary of the use of the Litany in old St. Anne's by the Reverend John Harrison, following the capture of the citadel. In commemoration of the first Church of England service held in Canada, the Reverend Henry How, rector of St. Luke's for a generation, solicited from the King a memorial book for the pulpit of the Annapolis church. The superb morocco volume which may be seen at the rectory was brought over by the Bishop of London in gracious response to this appeal. The covers are nineteen by twelve and a half inches in size, they bear the arms of the King and of Canada magnificently tooled in gold, and are set with eight amethysts—a tome in every way fit for a King to give.

Many Annapolis homes possess interesting pieces of furniture which have an antiquarian as well as artistic merit. In the rectory of St. Luke's there are armchairs with inset brass medallions which belonged to Captain Maynard of Nelson's staff,