Notes and Queries Volume 107 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...a large number of the original documents issued in the years 1670 to 1716; another set, extending from 1753 to 1828, is preserved in the Library of the British Museum; and the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres has another serit;s covering the last-named period. Of the brief records entered in parish books of the sums gathered, and for what objects, there are 1,021 notices of such collections having been made in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, between the years 1644 and 1793, and 1,103 in East Budleigh Church, Devonshire, from 1669 to 1828. T. N. Bkushfield, M.D. I am about to publish in the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Archteological Society some very interesting extracts from the two oldest registers of the parish of Syderstone, Norfolk. These contain, besides curious entries as to fasting in Lent, burials in woollen, and other notable items, a very full list of seventeenth and eighteenth century church briefs for which collections were made in the parish. In some cases the circumstance which called forth the collection is mentioned, in many it is not; but these may for the most part be discovered in Mr. W. A. Bewes's book on the subject. To take a few the objects of which are mentioned in the Syderstone registers, and are also given in Bewes: --Fakenham, co. Norfolk. A destructive fire in the town. The churchwardens' receipt for the money is attached to the register. Little Melton, in Norfolk. Fire. Milton Abbas, co. Dorset. Fire on 4 August, 1658, destroying upper part of town. The town of Scarborough, co. Yorks. Church restoration. 2.5O0Z. required. Pontefract Church, co. Yorks. Repair. The Lithuanians (100 Protestant churches). For translating and printing the Bible. The harbour of Watchett, co. Somerset. Houses and quay...