entary on
the Gospels_ in English, with the chains annexed, by which they were
fastened in the church. There are two volumes, in good preservation, and
black letter.

In Minster Church, near Margate, Kent, there is an oak cover to a Bible
chained to a desk, temp. Henry VIII. The whole of the letter-press has been
taken away (by small pieces at a time) by visitors to this beautiful Norman
church.

J. W. BROWN.

At Bromsgrove Church, Worcestershire, a copy of Bishop Jewel's Sermon on 1
Cor. ix. 16. (1609) is chained to a small lectern.

At Suckley Church, also in Worcestershire, there is a black-letter copy of
the Homilies, 1578.

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

There is a copy of Foxe's _Monuments_ so chained in the chancel of Luton
Church, Bedfordshire.

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

* * * * *

THE COURT-HOUSE.

(Vol. viii., p. 493.)

This place is not "an old out-of-the-way place," as described to F. M., but
stands in a paddock adjoining the churchyard, in the town of "Painswick, in
Gloucestershire." It is a respectable old stone-built house in the
Elizabethan style; and stands on an eminence commanding a view of one of
the pleasant valleys which abound in this parish. I do not know of, and do
not believe that there is, any "full description of it." Neither of the
county histories, of Atkyns (1712), Rudder (1779), Rudge (1803), or
Fosbrook (1807), mentions the court-house, though probably it is referred
to by Atkyns as "a handsome pleasant house adjoining the town, [then]
lately the seat of Mr. Wm. Rogers."

If either Charles I. or II. slept there, it was doubtless King Charles I.,
on the night of the 5th of September, 1643, on which day he raised the
siege of Gloucester, and

"Thousands of the royalist army marched in the rain up Painswick hill,
on the summit of which they encamped in the ancient entrenchment of the
part called Spoonbed hill. On this hill, tradition says, as Charles was
sitting on a stone near the camp, one of the princes, weary of their
present life, asked him 'When should they go home?' 'I have no home to
go to,' replied the disconsolate king. He went on to Painswick, and
passed the night there."--_Bibliotheca Gloucestriensis_ (Webb),
Introduction, p. 68., referring to Rudder (p. 592.) for the tradition
as to the colloquy.

The lodge, an old wooden house, in this parish more properly deserves the
character of an "old out-of-the-w