On church folk-lore, we have the building tradition of Eling Church Piscinae, rood-screens and lofts, oratories, and yew-trees. 290), fonts, lanterns, mural paintings, pulpits, organs, Items of church history incidentally mentioned are bells, chancel Particularly so is his transcript of the " Survey of the scite of theĪbbey of St. Walcott's contributions on church history are always valuable, and Who would not dare, if they wished, to be so gratuitously wanton inĮffacing the beauties and the records of our ancestors. National structures should be taken out of the hands of those whoĬannot protect them, and placed in the hands of the Government, In, only adds the strongest of all arguments to the plea that these Ignorant destruction of it, such as Lord Grimthorpe is now indulging Neglect of a structure like this is to be deplored, of course Bad as that noble church was then, it is far worse 262) is described, there is not much room for 68), is a case in point, butĬonsidering that in this volume the condition of St. So, too, is the monstrous manner in which these Relics of former periods, and their intimate connection with the peopleĪre very evident. Their connection with the chief families, their quaint Larly instructive, because for the most part it deals with parishĬhurches. The church history is very full and particu. The information most generally supplied relates to church historyĪnd to family history. Not so full while the Hunts portion is very limited. Is given about Hants, then Hertfordshire Herefordshire, again, is In the preceding volumes, because no attempt was made to syste. Shire, Hertfordshire, and Huntingdonshire unequally, of course, as The counties dealt with in this volume are Hampshire, Hereford. Recorded elsewhere, and the future historian of these localities, as wellĪs the visitor who cares for the history of places he is staying at, will They depict not only a state of things which, alas ! has to someĮxtent disappeared, but which to a still greater extent has not been Nowhere elseĪre to be found notes on parish history of so peculiar an interest as Value to them which otherwise they would not possess. On topographical subjects were written by people personallyĪcquainted with the places they were describing gives a charm and THE fact that these contributions to the old Gentleman's Magazine THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE FROM 1731 TO 1868.ĮLLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.G. Edited by George Laurence Gomme"Ī CLASSIFIED COLLECTION OF THE CHIEF CONTENTS OF Full text of " The Gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of the Gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868.
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