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- Title: Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Study Aids,Books,Reference,
- Pages : * pages
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This is a notes book. It would be interesting to have a complete list of the various books still to be found chained to desks in our ancient churches. The 'Bible of the largest volume', the 'Books of Homilies allowed by authority', and the Book of Common Prayer, are ordered by Canon 80. to be provided for every church. In some places this regulation is still complied with: at Oakington, Cambridgeshire, a copy of a recent (1825) edition of the Homilies lies on a small desk in the nave. But besides these authoritative works, other books are found chained to their ancient desks: at Impington, Cambridgeshire are, or were, 'three black-letter volumes of Fox's Martyrs chained to a stall in the chancel'. (Paley's Ecclesiologist's Guide, &c. ) At St. Nicholas, Rochester, chained to a small bracket desk at the south side of the west door, is a copy of A Collection of Cases and other Discourses to recover Dissenters to the Church of England, small 8vo. , 1718.