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entry of importance m connection ivith the more exceptional episcopal acts , so far as they concern the churches treated of in this volume . " Mr , Cox has certainly done one man ' s work , and done it well ; but it is to be hoped that some brother antiquary ,

with much learned leisure on his hands , will try to make himself useful to society by transcribing and publishing these reg isters , ivhich will certainly bo a work requiring much patience as well as skill . For Mr . Cox says" the muniments of the

, Lichfield Chapter are not in such a condition as to facilitate reference to any particular portion . When the Record Commissioners , appointed in 1800 , reported on the documents pertaining to our cathedrals , they said that no original Records , MSS-,

Statutes , or Charters were to be found at Lichfield . Where these learned gentlemen searched I know not ; and when first I thought of making inquiries in that direction , I was semi-officially referred to this official reportas giving the true state

, of the case . But , on obtaining access to the Chapter muniment room , over a south chapel of the quire , I found that there were a large number of early charters and

other documents , with seals attached , including the original grant of the Church of Bakewell by King John , with several other royal charters of a later date . The most interesting volume is an ancient chartulary , beautifully written in double columnsand called Magnum Registrum

, Album . " And of Lincoln Cathedral he remarks : — " The large number of Derbyshire benefices held by the Dean of Lincoln in this county , including the mother churches of Ashbourn , Chesterfield , and Wirksworthwith all their dependencies ,

, gives an additional interest to the history of that grand old building in the eyes of a Derbyshire ecclesiologist . Although all ecclesiastical connection Avith that ancient city has been severed by recent legislation , it is pleasant to reflect , when gazing upon

the most glorious of all our cathedrals , ' Thou , Lincoln , on thy sovereign hill , ' that it was the wealth of Derbyshire mines , and the fertility of Derbyshire pastures , which materially helped to raise that majestic pile , in all the successive stages of its culminating beauty . The munimentroom , over the Galilee porch , is rich in ancient chartularies and earl y royal aud

other charters of unique interest , "—several of which Mr . Cox considerately specifies . Of the accounts of churches given in the Post Office Directory of Derbyshire , our author , than whom there can be no more competent authority , declares that they " are for the most part ludicrously

incorrect ; whilst in the matter of dedications , and dates of the registers , it seems to be more often wrong than right . " The book , in this as in the previous volume , is well illustrated by Heliotypes from Photographs ; and , when the other two volumes

are published , will form the best work on the churches of any county that has hitherto been offered to the public . As one of the illustrations to the concluding volume , I hope we may be favoured with the Portrait of the Author , for whom this

standard work on the Churches of Derby-Derbyshire will form a more enduring monument than any stained-glass window , memorial brass , or marble monument that the most skilful craftsman can execute , though I trust he may not be denied the latter when gathered to his fathers . Mr , Martin Simpson , the able curator of the museum of the Whitby Literary

and Philosophical Society , who has been long known as a profound writer on the geology of Yorkshire , and on other subjects , and earned for himself the honourable reputation of an industrious and reliable author , is about to publish , by

subscription , the History of the Reign of William the Third , on which he has been engaged for many years . As the work will be supp lied to subscribers only , I hope it may be well patronised , as I am sure it will deserve . His estimate of that glorious

Revolution which secured to us constitutional liberty , may be judged from the following passage : — " Harassed by these evils , and having learned by sad experience the pernicious consequences of civil discordall parties in the nation felt

, disposed to sacrifice something of their own notions of civil government , and by mutual forbearance and accommodation , to seek the blessings of that liberty which they had failed to obtain either by popular violence or b abject submission to

y sovereign power . This favourable disposition , the offspring of circumstances , might , however , have been of little avail , had there not been some one of sufficient power