pro aia Alauni Burton qui fontem istum fieri fec. A.D. MCCCCV."

Clee, Lincoln:

"The Font is formed of two cylindrical parts, one placed upon the
other, over which, in the shaft of the circular column, is inlaid a
small piece of marble, with a Latin inscription in Saxon characters,
referring to the time of King Richard, and stating it was dedicated to
the Holy Trinity and St. Mary, by Hugh Bishop of Lincoln, A.D. 1192."

The above are extracts from books, not copied by me from the fonts.

F. B. RELTON.

At Threckingham, Lincolnshire, round the base of the font--

"Ave Maria gratis . p . d . t."

At Little Billing, Northamptonshire,--

"Wilberthus artifex atq; cementarius hunc fabricavit, quisquis suum
venit mergere corpus procul dubio capit."

J. P., Jun.

To the list of these should be added the early English font at Keysoe,
Beds., noticed in the _Ecclesiologist_, vol. i. p. 124., and figured in Van
Voorst's _Baptismal Fonts_. It bears the legend in Norman French:

+ "Trestui: ke par hiei passerui
Pur le alme Warel prieui:
Ke Deu par sa grace
Verrey merci li face. A[=m]."

{626} Or, in modern French:

"Restez: qui par ici passerez
Pour l'ame de Warel priez:
Que Dieu par sa grace
Vraie merci lui fasse. Amen."

CHEVERELLS.

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BURN AT CROYDON.

(Vol. vii., pp. 238. 393.)

The bourne at Croydon is one of the most remarkable of those intermitting
springs which issue from the upper part of the chalk strata after
long-continued rains.

All porous earth-beds are reservoirs of water, and give out their supplies
more or less copiously according to their states of engorgement; and at
higher or lower levels, as they are more or less replenished by rain. Rain
percolates through the chalk rapidly at all times, it being greatly
fissured and cavernous, and finds vent at the bottom of the hills, in
ordinary seasons, in the perennial springs which issue there, at the top of
the chalk marl, or of the galt (the clay so called) which underlies the
chalk. But when long-continued rains have filled the fissures and caverns,
and the chinks and crannies of the ordinary vents below are unequal to the
drainage, the reservoir as it were overflows, and the superfluity exudes
from the valleys and gullies of the upper surface; and these occasional
sources continue to flow till the equilibrium is restored, and the
perennial vents suffice