f a screen, and over it
the arms of George II., between two tables containing the Lord's
Prayer, &c. In the N. E. angle is the pulpit, which is of oak, hexagon,
ordinary, as are also the pews and seats. At the W. end stands the
font, which is octagon, the faces containing roses and lions, and two
figures holding blank escutcheons, the pedestal supported by four
lions. The steeple is in the usual place, small, square, of flints, but
little higher than the roof. In it is only one bell, inscribed 1759.
The entrance into the church on the N. side is through a circular Saxon
arch, not much ornamented. On the side is another of the same
description, but more ornamented, with zig-zag moulding, &c." Then
follow the inscriptions, &c. in the chancel, of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown,
John Brown, Thomas Brown; in the nave, of Henry Keable, with extracts
from the parish register commencing in 1653.]

_The Statute of Kilkenny._--Said to have been passed in 1364. What was the
nature of it?

ABREDONENSIS.

[This statute legally abolished the ancient code of the Irish, called
the Brehon laws, and was passed in a parliament held at Kilkenny in the
40th Edward III., under the government of Lionel, Duke of Clarence,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. By this act, the English are commanded in
all controversies to govern themselves by the common laws of England,
so that whoever submitted himself to the Brehon law, or the law of the
Marches, is declared a traitor. Among other things the statute enacted
that "the alliaunce of the English by marriage with any Irish, the
nurture of infantes, and gossipred with the Irish, be deemed high
treason." And again, "If anie man of English race use an Irish name,
Irish apparell, or any other guize or fashion of the Irish, his lands
shall be seized, and his bodie imprisoned, till he shall conform to
English modes and customs." This statute was followed by the 18th Henry
VI. c. i. ii. iii., and the 28th Hen. VI., c. i., with similar
prohibitions and penalties. These prohibitions, however, had little
effect; nor were the English laws universally submitted to throughout
Ireland until the time of James I., when the final extirpation of the
ancient Brehon law was effected.]

_Kenne of Kenne._--Can any of your Kentish correspondents inform me to whom
a certain Christ. Kenne of Kenne, in co. Somerset, s