h of Bingley has also its desk, to which the chain is
still attached; but the "Book of Articles" has given place to some more
modern volume.

JOHN BOOKER.

Prestwich.

MR. SIMPSON will find some account of the _Paraphrase of Erasmus_ so
chained (of which he says he cannot recal an instance) at Vol i., p. 172.,
and Vol. v., p. 332.

The following list (remains of which more or less perfect, with chains
appended, are still extant) will probably be interesting to many of your
readers:

"_Books chayned in the Church, 25th April, 1606._

Dionisius Carthusian vpon the New Testament, in two volumes.
Origen vpon St. Paules Epistle to the Romanes.
Origen against Celsus.
Lira vpon Pentathucke of Moses.
Lira vpon the Kings, &c.
Theophilact vpon the New Testam^t.
Beda vpon Luke and other P^{ts} of the Testam^t.
Opuscula Augustini, thome x.
Augustini Questiones in Nou[=u] Testament[=u].
The Paraphrase of Erasmus.
The Defence of the Apologye.
Prierius Postill vpon the Dominicall Gospells."
From Ecclesfield Church accounts.

J. EASTWOOD.

In Malvern Abbey Church is a copy of Dean Comber's _Companion to the
Temple_, chained to a desk, and bearing a written inscription to the effect
that it should never be removed out of the church; but should remain
chained to its desk for ever, for the use of any parishioner who might
choose to come in and read it there.

N. B. I have mislaid my copy of this inscription: and should feel greatly
obliged to any of your correspondents who may be residing in or near Great
Malvern, for a transcript of it. As it may be thought somewhat long for
your pages, perhaps some correspondent would kindly copy it out for me, and
inclose it to Rev. H. T. GRIFFITH, Hull.

University Club.

* * * * *

EPITAPHS.

(Vol. vii. _passim._)

A goodly collection of singular epitaphs has appeared in "N. & Q."; but I
believe it yet lacks {274} a specimen of the following tomfoolery--an
initial epitaph. Green, in his _History of Worcester_, gives the following
inscription from a monument under the north-west window of St. Andrew's
Church in that city:

"Short of Weight.
H L T B O
R W
I H O A J R
A D 1780 A 63."

Green adds the following explanation of this riddle:

"In _full measure_ it would have stood thus: 'Here Lieth The Body Of
Richard Weston, In Hopes Of A Joyful Resurrection. Anno Domini 1780.