iries into the losses which had taken place, and prevent farther
dilapidations and decay, in what was no doubt, once considered a valuable
acquisition to the inhabitants of the parish.

Permit me to add, that in a room over the entrance porch of that venerable
Saxon church St. Peter in the East, at Oxford, there is a large lending
library for the use of the parishioners, largely contributed to by several
of its recent and present zealous incumbent, and to which church so much
has lately been done to remove former eye-sores, and to render it one of
the most chastely decorated and best attended parish churches in the
University.

J. M. G.

Worcester.

In an old MS. headed

"Articles, Conditions, and Covenants, upon which the Provost and other
officers of King's College in Cambridge have admitted Michael Mills,
Schollar of the said College, to be Keeper of the Publick Library of
the said College."

the seventh and last article is--

"For the rendering his business about the library more easy, each
person that makes use of any book or books in the said library, is
required to sett 'em up again decently, without entangling the chains;
by which is signified to all concerned that no person whatsoever, upon
any pretence, is permitted to carry any book out of the library to
their chambers, or any otherwise to be used as a private book, it being
against the statutes of our college in y^t case provided."

Under "Orders for regulating the publick library of King's College," Order
IV.:

"All the fellows and scholars, and all other persons allowed the use of
the library, shall carefully set up those they use in their proper
place, without entangling the chains."

Michael Mills got King's in 1683.

T. H. L.

In the church of Wiggenhall, St. Mary the Virgin, the following books may
be seen fastened by chains to a wooden desk in the chancel: Foxe's _Book of
Martyrs_, in three volumes, chained to the same staple; the Book of
Homilies; the Bible, with calendar in rubrics; and the works of Bishop
Jewell, in one volume. The title-page is lost from all the above: in other
respects they are in a fair state of preservation, considering their {596}
antiquity, of which their characters being old English, is a sufficient
proof.

W. B. D.

At a _soiree_ recently held at Crosby Hall, there were exhibited by the
churchwardens of St. Benet's, Gracechurch Street, Erasmus' _Comm