pounds.
They bear the following inscriptions, with the initials of the maker and
the date 1745 in each case:

No. 1. Peace and good neighbourhood.

,, 2. Prosperity to all our benefactors.

,, 3. Prosperity to this Parish.

,, 4. I to the Church the living call,
And to the grave do summon all.

,, 5. Geo Hope, Churchwarden.
Thos Fox, Sidesman.

,, 6. Abel Rudhall of Gloucester cast us all.

{23b} There is a curious carved oaken slab, 4ft high, surmounted by a
cross, which forms part of the present Reading Desk. On the cross is an
eagle, with a vine branch and grapes above, and with a scroll in his beak
inscribed, In Domino confido. The pillar was probably in commemoration
of a maiden daughter of Randolph Pool, Rector in 1537.

{24a} Its peculiarity consisted in its accommodating two officiating
clergymen simultaneously. The Clerk's Desk was, as usual, below.

{24b} This Chancel, called the Whitley Chancel, was restored and
decorated in 1885, by the munificence of H. Hurlbutt, Esq., of Dee
Cottage, from the designs of Mr. Frampton, and under the superintendence
of Mr. Douglas, Architect, Chester. The same gentleman erected the Lych
Gate at the North entrance to the Churchyard.

{27} From Tinkersdale Quarry.

{28a} Dante is one of the four authors to whom Mr. Gladstone attributes
the greatest _formative_ influence on his own mind; the other three being
Aristotle, Bishop Butler, and S. Augustine.

{28b} Sir S. Glynne was one of the highest authorities on English
Ecclesiology. He visited and described in a series of Note Books, which
are carefully preserved, nearly the whole of the old parish churches in
the country. His Notes of the Churches of Kent are published by Murray.
He died in 1874, at the age of 66. There is a good portrait of him by
Roden.

{29a} Eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gladstone.

{29b} Sir John Glynne has recorded that only one tree was standing about
the place in 1730. This is supposed to be the large spreading oak
adjoining the Flower Garden.

{32a} This Church contains some noteworthy frescoes and other mural
decorations, the work of the Rev. John Troughton, sometime curate in
charge.

{32b} A wag is said to have scratched on the stump of a tree at Hawarden
the following couplet:

"No matter whether oak or birch--
They all go like the Irish Church."

{33a}
_Homer_. _Iliad_ xxili. 315

"By skill far more than strength the woodman fells
The