what an opportunity was offered of completing the Abbey and restoring to their proper use those portions which had been destroyed in haste, and without regard to history or art.-Mons. C. A. Chardenal, B.A., then read a Paper on "The Probable Origin and Age of the Shore Tumuli of the Firth of Clyde," illustrated by drawings and objects discovered in the course of his explorations.-A note on Old Partick was communicated by Mr. James Napier.-A View of Glasgow from the south end of Jamaica Street Bridge in 1826 was exhibited by Mr. C. D. Donald; a pair of handcuffs ploughed up on the field of Bannockburn, by Mr. Kirsop; a Scottish almanack for 1682, by Mr. J. Dalrymple Duncan; and a probably unique collection of almanacks from 1667, by Mr. J. Wyllie Guild.

Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society. -March 10.-A Paper was read by Mr. John Thornton "On Heraldry," with local illustrations taken from mural tablets in the Bradford Parish Church. One of the examples given referred to the families of Bacon and Balme. Arms: Bacon-" Quarterly, first and fourth gules, on a chief argent, two mullets with five points, sable." Balme "Second and third quarters, purpure, three fleur-de-lis argent, a chief vair. The next example was taken from a stone slab upon the west wall of the Bolling Chapel, to the memory of Benjamin Baron, M.A., vicar of Bradford, died February 6, 1705. Arms (in this case nothing is given to convey the colouring of the arms; Burke, however, gives the following):-"Ermine, three bends gules, a label of as many points azure." Also"Ermine, three bendlets gules, over all a label of as many points argent.' The next example was also from the Bolling Chapel. It is a plaster cast, and has recently been removed in constructing a vestry for the clergy. The arms in this case are placed in colour upon a lozenge at the base of the tablet, and it is intended to indicate they belong to a widow. The inscription is in Latin, sacred to the memory of Susannah Richardson, and she was a member of the Savile family. Arms: Per Pale Richardson-" Sable, on a chief argent, three lions' heads of the field." Savile, "Argent, on a bend sable, three savants (owls) of the first." In the tower of the church, and on its north wall, is a tablet, containing in its upper portion the arms of Field and Rawson, painted upon a small raised shield, and resting upon the shield is a beautifully carved helmet, surrounded by the crest also in relief. Arms quarterly: Field-"First and fourth, Barry wavy of six, argent and azure, a lion rampant or, in chief two escollop shells of the second.' Rawson: "Second and third per fess, sable and azure, a castle with four towers argent, a canton ermine." The " canton ermine" is evidently intended for difference, and to distinguish this family of Rawson from some other of the same name, most probably that of Rawson of Bradford. An illustration of the Bradford arms was given, in which what the reader considered the correct drawing is rendered. He passed some strictures upon the way this armorial device is tortured by local decorators; the boar's head being, he avers, delineated by every colour from black to white, and the "well" depicted upon the chevron being anything, from a castle to a pepper-box or a "bobbin." Mr. Thornton believes the true rendering

of this charge to be "A Syke," a sign specially provided in heraldry to represent springs, wells, and fountains. It should be drawn "a rounded argent, three bars wavy azure." Mr. Thornton brought his remarks to a close by referring to the approaching alterations in the graveyard of the parish church, and expressed a hope that the Vicar of Bradford would have an accurate survey made, and a plan prepared therefrom, showing the respective positions of the tombstones it may be found necessary to remove, and complete copies of the inscriptions thereon kept along with the other archives of the church, as it constantly happens that such inscriptions form an important connecting link in the preparation of family pedigrees.

Yorkshire Philosophical Society.-April 4.Mr W. C. Anderson in the Chair.-The Rev. Canon Raine read a Paper by the Rev. C. W. King, Trinity College, Cambridge, on the "Roman Statue found in York in 1880." The Paper characterized the statue as incomparably the finest of Roman-British workmanship that the Society possessed, on account of its excellent style, exceptional magnitude, and wonderful state of preservation. The most obvious explanation of the meaning of the figure was that they had in it the picture of some very youthful Cæsar, represented in his proper character of "Imperator," as best befitting the requirements of the place where it wasthe important military station of Eburacum.-In reply to the Chairman, Canon Raine remarked that since he himself had expressed the opinion that the statue was a representation of the god Mars, he had conformed to the idea of the Rev. C. W. King on the subject.

Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Archæological Society.-Annual Meeting, March 28.— Mr. R. Thornewill in the Chair.-After some formal business, Mr. Lott (assistant treasurer) read the financial statement. The hon. general secretary's report was taken as read, and, in accordance with a resolution of the committee, it will shortly be printed and circulated. Mr. T. C. Martin presented the report of the excursion secretaries. This stated that the excursions of the past season, without one exception, had been very successful. A detailed account of the excursions would be written and placed in the Society's library at the Grammar School for reference. During the coming summer it was proposed to organize day trips to Welbeck Abbey, Stratford-on-Avon, and Warwick Castle, and through the Churnet Valley to some place to be afterwards fixed upon. It was also proposed to have half-day excursions to Crich and Wingfield Manor, Rangemore and Tatenhill, Elford and Haselour, Dunstall, Rowsley and Haddon Hall, Bretby, and Repton and Newton. After the election of the officers, the President proposed that Professor Boyd Dawkins should be elected an honorary member of the Society, remarking that they were all greatly indebted to him for his address at the recent conversazione.

Edinburgh Architectural Society. March 8.-Mr. John M'Lachlan, President in the Chair.A lecture on "The Pediment Sculptures of Egina and their Composition," was delivered by Professor Baldwin Brown. In the course of his lecture Professor Baldwin Brown pointed out that the works under discussion were discovered among the ruins of the temple dedicated to the goddess Athene, which was demolished by an earthquake. The discovery

was made by a party of explorers in the year 1811. The fragments were carefully collected, and when they were subjected to close examination it was found that five figures of the eastern pediment could be totally restored, and ten of the western pediment. The work of placing the fragments together was entrusted to Martin Vagna, who satisfactorily performed at Rome the duty confided to him. The figures were also executed in models of nearly lifesize, and these were at present in the Museum at Munich. The statues were amongst the most interesting of the works of ancient art which were left to us. They belonged to the period shortly before the outburst of the artistic activity of the Greeks, and as examples of the archaic manner no better specimens were to be found. On account of parts of the surface of the figures being corroded, and other portions being perfectly preserved, there was every reason to believe that the figures had borne colouring. The figures were let into small plinths, which were afterwards filled in with lead. In connection with the manner in which the figures were supported, the lecturer drew attention to the position of a statue in a kneeling position. The lower limb, although nearly touching the bed of the pediment, was unsupported except at the joining of the toe with the base of the pediment, and the foremost limb was fixed into the latter by the usual bronze joining, from the sole of the foot.

Bath Field Club.-March 15.-Dr. Bird read a paper entitled "Remarks upon Wood's History of Bath, and the Names of Places Mentioned in that Work." Published in the year 1749, he said it contained much interesting and curious matter. No legend or tradition connected with Bath seems to have escaped the author's notice, and many illustrations of them were given, and the derivation of names of places in the neighbourhood attributed to a Gaelic origin. In conclusion Dr. Bird spoke of the value of the late Mr. Moore's geological collection in an educational point of value, and expressed a sincere hope that the Bath people would secure it as a monument of his genius and energy. Mr Skrine then gave a Paper entitled "A Walk Round the Manor of Forde," the earliest authentic account of which occurred in the tenth century, and included then Warley and possibly Shockerwick. The members were taken across the two fords of the Avon and Box Brook, called then Weaver's Brook, up to Bannerdown, down to Shockerwick, Ashley Wood, round by the Tower to the Dry arch, Conkwell, Warley Ford, and round across the Wansdyke back again.

Nottingham Naturalists' Society.—April 5.— The Chair was taken by Mr. B. Sturges Dodd.-A Paper by Mr. F. Clements was read, entitled "From whence Nottingham sprang; with an account of early British coins and medals-illustrated by various events in English History." The author went back to the history of the early inhabitants of what is now called Nottingham. The illustrations consisted of skilfully executed original drawings which included representations of ancient British coins.

Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. March 10.-Mr. G. B. Millett in the Chair. The Rev. S. Rundle, Vicar of Godolphin, read a Paper on Cornish superstitions :-There can

be no doubt that the belief in charms and ghosts is by no means on the wane. There is a famous White Witch-John Bostock, of Exeter-who, once now and then, makes a tour into Cornwall. There were two old women who had quarrelled desperately about a flower. One of them had a son who was exceedingly ill. John Bostock happened to be on one of his tours at the time. He declared that this other old woman had bewitched the man, and that upon payment of 11s. he would give him some medicine which would have the effect of making the curser's eyes fall out of her head. The 11s. was paid, though previously it was impossible for them to have raised Is. The medicine was made. The wizard went his way. The above case is clear enough as to the mode of dealing with it. Others are more difficult. The writer said-I met an old woman once, who said to me, "I know that you will not like what I have been doing, sir." "What is that?" I said. "Why, I have been charming a kennel out of Mrs. - baby's

eye. I began, of course, with the ordinary invective against charming, when I was interrupted by her saying, "I can tell you the charm, as you are of the opposite sect." She then repeated the charm, which was, "Two angels came from the east. One brought fire; the other brought water. In water! Out fire! In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." The charm of the dead man's hand is a very common one. A woman was suffering from a terrible tumour. One day she told me that she had been two miles, at her husband's request, to lay a dead man's hand upon it. She told me that it was his dying wish that, after his death, she should take his hand and place it upon the wound. Shortly after a girl did use this charm, and, I believe, did suppose that she was cured by it. The form is to take the hand, to cross it nine times over the wound, and then, as the hand itself resolves itself into nothingness, so also the wound will disappear. The cure for sorethroat is to take a piece of a birch broom and cross it nine times over the part affected. The woman who told me this assured me that she had been cured in that way. I was sent for once to baptize a child. The mother, with a most peculiar look at me, took off a small bag from the baby's neck, and said, with something of defiance in her tone, "I suppose that you do not believe in this? My baby had a most distressing cough in this bag is a piece of a donkey's ear. have put it on the child's neck, and the cough has been a great deal better ever since." Whenever a discharge of blood from the nostrils takes place a certain woman is told of it. Without leaving her house, she is said to have such an influence upon the sufferer that the flow ceases. She herself, who is not able to read, told me that the charm consists in saying a certain verse in the Psalms. This last old woman tells me that she derived her knowledge from her mother, who had a large collection of papers, &c., by which she was taught how to charm. This collection of papers has been long, I am sorry to say, dispersed. Mr. J. G. Uren mentioned the Penryn belief in the headless horses and coachman of Tremough and in the ghost of Dame Gregor, who haunts Trewarthenick; as well as in the powers of ill wishing possessed by a hind at Enys. Miss Louise Courtney mentioned the charm of the

silver ring, bought by begged pennies or silver coin.-Rev. G. Rundle observed that many of these superstitions were found in Devonshire, and Mr. A. C. Wildman confirmed this, giving instances of the "dead man's hand" charm in Devon, 46 years ago, and in Penzance, quite recently, with the story of a woman who had walked nineteen or twenty miles from the extreme north of Cornwall to Bodmin to beg for a piece of the hangman's rope to cure her bad eyes.

Cambridge Philological Society.-Feb. 23.Mr. Munro, the President, in the Chair.-Mr. Cooke read a Paper "On the Imperatival Force of the Latin Subjunctive."-Mr. Ridgeway read Notes "On Arist. Pol., i. ii."

Plymouth Institution and Devon and Corn. wall Natural History Society.-April 6.-The Annual Meeting, when the following officers were appointed:-President, Mr. R. N. Worth, F.G.S., re-elected; Vice-Presidents, Rev. Professor Chapman, Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, F.S.A., F. L.S., Dr. Merrifield, F.R.A.S., F.M.S., Rev. J. Erskine Risk; Secretaries, Mr. Francis Brent, Mr. J. C. Inglis, C.E.; Treasurers, Mr. S. Cater, Mr. E. G. Bennett. The reports presented showed the Institution, which is now in its 71st year, to be more flourishing than at any previous period. During the past twelve months a spacious and handsome museum and art-gallery have been erected, which are now nearly complete, and in which will be arranged as speedily as possible the valuable collections belonging to the Society. These are of particular interest and value in antiquities and anthropology, ornithology, ichthyology, crustacea,

whole kingdom. It remained as the Court of the Stannaries till within the last century, and hence it was commonly called Parliament Rock. On this spot the chief miners of Devon were, by their charter, obliged to assemble. Sometimes a company of two or three hundred persons would there meet; but, on account of the situation, after the necessary and preliminary forms had been gone through, they usually adjourned to Tavistock or some other Stannary town to settle their affairs. The Lord Warden, who was the supreme judge of the Stannary Courts, invariably issued his summons that the jurors should meet at Crockern Tor on such a day. Mrs. Bray, from whom we take the preceding remarks, describes this monument as follows:-"Crockern Tor or Parliament Rock is situated on Dartmoor, near the turnpike road leading from Moreton to Tavistock, at the distance of about eleven miles from the former and nine from the latter. The first thing that struck me was a rock, with a fissure in the middle, with one half of it split either by art or Nature, into four pretty regular steps, each about a foot and a half high and two feet broad. Before this mass, towards the north is a short ledge of stones evidently piled up by art which might have been a continued beuch.

botany, and in specimens from the bone caves of Devon. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Lord High Steward of Plymouth, has contributed £50 to the Museum Fund; and among the other contributors are the Duke of Bedford, the Earls of Mount Edgecumbe, Morley, and St. Germans, the Bishop of Exeter, Lords Blachford and Robartes, Sir John Lubbock, Sir J. St. Aubyn, Sir R. P. Collier, Sir Massey Lopes, &c. The British Archæological Association meet at Plymouth in August, and the members of the Institution have decided to place their hall, &c., at the disposal of that body.

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Crockern Tor or Parliament Rock.-One of the most curious specimens of the primitive open-air Courts of Justice is found on Dartmoor: it is known by the name of Crockern Tor, the most remarkable seat perhaps, of Druidical judicature throughout the

On ascending higher I

arrived at a flat area in which, though almost covered with rushes, I could plainly trace out four lines of stones forming an oblong square, twenty feet in length and six in breadth, pointing nearly east and west. The entrance seems to have been at the north-west corner. At the north side, four feet distant, is another imperfect line, and ten feet on either side is a straight natural buttress of rock. Possibly the table might have stood in the centre of this area, and these lines may be vestiges of the seats around it. I can hardly suppose the stone was so large as to rest on these as its foundation, though there are no stones in the middle that might have answered that purpose. Whilst the Lord Warden and Stannators presided at this table, probably the rest of the assembly filled up the remainder of the area or climbed the rocks on each side" (Bray's Borders of the Tamar and the Tay, i. 108-110.) Polwhele, in his History of Devonshire, says that he "searched for the table, seats, &c., said to be used in the Stannary Parliament, but could not discover them." The tor consisting of a great number of separate stones scattered on the ground to a considerable extent, some in single masses, others double and triple, in such manner as may tolerably well serve for tables and seats (see vol. i. p. 44, note). article by Mr. Logan in the Gentleman's Magasine for 1832, part ii. p. 22, may be consulted, and also Palgrave's History of the English Commonwealth, vol. i. 140. We are indebted to Mrs. Bray for the loan of our illustration, and we must be permitted to add that it has given us great pleasure to know that

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the venerable correspondent of Southey still enjoys comparative good health.

Essex County Records.-At the Essex Quarter Sessions, held on April 4, the following important report from the Shire Hall Committee was adopted:That at a meeting specially convened at the instance of Mr. G. Alan Lowndes, one of their members, for the purpose of considering the subject of the better preservation and arrangement of the ancient County Muniments, the Clerk of the Peace, at the request of your Committee, read the following letter which he had received from his chief clerk :-"As the Shire Hall Committee will consider to-morrow the County Records, perhaps it would be well for me, for your information, to state briefly of what they consist: The earliest record is a roll of entries of deeds of conveyance beginning temp. Henry VIII. Of the Sessions records, the rolls containing original indictments, depositions, recognizances, &c., commenced in the reign of Philip and Mary, and continue, with a few breaks, to the present time. Two officers of the Court appear to have briefly abstracted the entries relating to bridges, &c., the first bridge book relating to the period from Philip and Mary to 12 James I.; and I assume that this was the time at which the book was compiled, for in 1664 it was admitted in evidence before the Grand Jury. The other bridge book commences where the first ceases, and extends to 1717. In turning over an old Sessions rough minute book, on Tuesday, I found quite accidentally the entry directing this second book to be compiled. The entry is as under: 1718-That the Clerk of the Peace do apply to the Custos Rotulorum for his consent to take the old Records of Sessions from the Church Porch at Chelmsford in order to set them to rights, and to make an index of them that they may be useful to the county.' With the exception of the short references in the bridge books, there does not appear to be any record of the contents of the rolls for a very long period, the order books not commencing until 1651, and not continuing successively except from 1698. Upon the rolls themselves are very many entries illustrating the customs and laws of the country during successive reigns. In the reign of Mary are indictments connected with the martyrs, in succeeding reigns are many entries throwing a flood of light upon the prosecutions of Popish Recusants and Protestant Dissenters, and in the Commonwealth-a time of supposed great religious freedom-sufficient entries are found of the persecution of Episcopalians to believe that Macaulay was not exaggerating when he said that 'It was a crime in a child to read by the bedside of a sick parent one of those beautiful collects which had soothed the griefs of forty generations of Christians.' Several certificates of Bishops and Archdeacons are upon the files, bringing to the notice of the Court persons who refused to attend Church; and among the papers of Charles II., is a letter from the Council directing prosecutions of Catholics, and another requiring a return of all prisoners in custody, especially mentioning the Quakers, so that the king might exercise his royal clemency. One historian records that Charles had been assisted in his escape by a person who afterwards became a Quaker, and upon the prosecution of

his co-religionists the king's benefactor reminded his majesty of what he had done, and interceded for the sufferers. These and other letters from the Council are exceedingly valuable, and amongst many others, are found the signatures of several Archbishops and Bishops, Burleigh, Howard of Effingham, Walsingham, Albemarle (Monks of Restoration), Lauderdaill, Hunsdon, Northumberland, Ellesmere, and many others; and there is also a certificate from Oliver Cromwell. Letters exist from the Parliament during the Civil War as to payment of the taxes; and also the original rates which were made for the relief of sufferers from the great plague. The presentments of the Grand Jury embraced many subjects on such as highways and bridges out of repair, disorderly houses, unlicensed alehouses, forestalling markets, reviling constables, building cottages, &c. The sentences passed upon offenders included branding, the stocks, whipping, &c., there being many entries in which bastardy was punished by setting, invariably the man but often the woman also, in the stocks from morning to evening prayer, and making confession after the second lesson; the woman being likewise whipped at the Church door and imprisoned for a year, with 'frequent corrections in the meantime.' Some of the entries are very peculiar ; of these I will mention only a few:-'1651. John Grene, in custody, not having appeared at the Quarter Session, having "failed by running away and leaving his bayle in the lurch." 1651. Five names given in calendar of gaoler-"discharged by their own wicked witts in undermining the house, 1st July, 1651." 1649. For stealing three cheeses and a hive of bees, "John Chapman being in gaole and thence acquitted is to be sent to the House of Correction for a weeke, and to receive punishment." 1577. Depositions against Blumfield for witchcraft, by which it appears that three maidservants of Mr. Poynes having lost some linen, sent Thomas Lynford to a cunning man. He went to Blumfield, adjoining the Churchyard at Chelmsford, who fetched a looking-glass, and Lynford professed to recognize in it the face of Humphrey Barnes, of North Ockendon. Before leaving the messenger was made to swear that he would tell no man.' There are also many certificates of official persons receiving the Sacrament. Books of taxes for hearthmoney (abolished in 1st William and Mary), and a vast number of entries relating to the different waves of religious opinion which swept over the country. These old records were stowed away at the top of the Shire Hall until about three years ago, when the question of Loxford Bridge was before the Court, and I then remembered that when quite a boy I had seen a lot of old papers there. These were got out, and from a few entries I found in them, and subsequent inquiries made by me on the spot, the indictment found against the county was not proceeded with, and the prosecution of the county by the parish of Barking has not since been heard of. For about a year the arranging and sorting out of the papers occupied a great deal of my leisure. In the summer of 1880, the matter was before some of the Chairmen of Quarter Session, and I promised to make memoranda of one reign and submit the notes to them, with a view to their bringing the subject of the publication of the records before the Custos, or tak

ing such other steps as they might think desirable. This I had nearly accomplished when the subject of the Standing Orders arose, and my researches were suspended until quite recently, when they were again resumed. A portion of my rough notes upon the reign of Philip and Mary have been put into type, and a few copies printed for the convenience of the Committee. I would not presume for one moment to suggest any course for the Committee to pursue, but would express to you the earnest hope that no gentleman will be appointed to abstract and prepare the records for printing who is not well acquainted with the history, the localities, and the families of the county, or many minute points of great historical value will inevitably be lost.-CHAS. Č. SHARMAN." And your Committee beg to recommend that with the sanction of the Custos Rotulorum, a Records Committee be appointed, with power to investigate the ancient records of the Court, and to enter into arrangements with the Historical Manuscripts Commission, or any other body qualified to deal with them to the best advantage, which Committee shall report their proceedings to the Court. And your Committee further recommend that the county surveyor be directed to consider and report to them in what manner the ancient records may be best preserved in safety.

Antiquarian News.

Some workmen "trying" for road stone in Spoonly Wood, about one mile from Sudeley Castle, on the upper side of Waterhatch farm, discovered extensive remains of a Roman villa or chapel. The stone walls stand from one to two feet in height, and are divided into several compartments and corridors. An extremely rich design in tessera is to be found in a square of 8 or 9 feet, though the roots of an elder bush have much spoilt the centre. This floor is raised some distance above that of the other floors

yet found. Some very handsome coloured pavement is to be seen in a corridor about 8 feet in width, the full length not being yet opened. The raised square floor above mentioned is quite close to the surface of the earth. The remains being unearthed are on a gentle wooden slope, and the roots of the trees and bushes have much displaced, here and there, the extremely small square coloured stones which go to make up the handsome and intricate patterns. Mr. Dent's labourers are daily at work making further investigations, and Mrs. Dent is taking a great interest in this archæological discovery.

The work of uncovering the large Roman bath under the Poor Law Union Office, at Bath, is progressing as rapidly as the difficult nature of the work will permit. Further evidence of the grand scale on which the Romans erected their bathing establishments has been furnished by the uncovering of the base of a massive pillar, the dimensions of which give a good hint of the kind of superstructure that it was intended to support. Some portion of the steps that led down to the bath are now to be seen from above ground.

The church of St. Laurence, Winchester, has been restored. It is the mother church of Winchester, and in it the bishops on their induction to the chair of the diocese, "ring themselves in," and as within the walls rest many old civic worthies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the sacred edifice is of considerable interest. The principal change in the old building is the insertion, in the south wall, of a four-light window, with cinque foil crisps in the tracery and trefoil heads to the light. The church, having no chancel distinctly structural, the old carved work which run along the walls at the east end have been used to divide a portion of the nave from the chancel, within which the Communion rails are placed, and where the surpliced choir will sit in future, as in other churches. The reredos consists of the sacred emblem, painted on zinc panel, which rises over the cross, and necessitated the removal of the figure of St. Laurence to the new window. The Creed and Commandments are fixed to the wall in three niches (one ancient) to the south of the reredos.

Mr. Watt, of Sandwick, Orkney, has discovered in that parish a large specimen of the prehistoric broug, or round tower. The walls are massive, being from 12 feet to 15 feet broad, and 10 feet to 15 feet high. It was in this parish that the extraordinary discovery of ancient silver ornaments took place many years ago; but, so far as the present excavations have gone, no metal ornaments have been found, although a considerable quantity of combs, deers' horns, and other articles have been picked up. An underground passage, supposed to lead to a cave, has been explored for about 50 feet.

Another of the ancient churches which stud the valleys of North Yorkshire is about to be thoroughly restored and enlarged-that of All Saints', Nunning. ton, near Malton. The church has long been in a dilapidated and ruinous condition. It was built 600 years ago. In 1671 it was partially rebuilt, and most inconveniently re-seated, and it is now proposed to restore and enlarge the church at an estimated cost of £2,200. The restoration will be carried out under the direction of Mr. Ewan Christian, architect to the

Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Build. ings have appealed to a variety of local bodies and representative individuals in the endeavour to secure the due and proper preservation of the ancient church of St. Crux, in the city of York; they have found, however, that neither public bodies nor private individuals are willing to make an effort to provide the funds necessary to preserve this most interesting relic of ancient architecture. The sum that would be required to keep it from falling to pieces would probably be but moderate, but it is argued in some quarters that if it cannot be brought up to a certain standard as regards modern ornamental fittings and improvements, it is no longer worthy to hold its original position as a place of worship, and that it had better be pulled down. It appears to the Society, however, that as a church it will be less desecrated by being maintained in a sound, though perhaps bare, condition, than it would be by being destroyed; and that, as an ancient building, its loss would be very iamentable for the city of York, especially as it is one