The parish registers of England / J. Charles Cox.

  • Cox, John Charles.
Date:
1910
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Credit: The parish registers of England / J. Charles Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ENGLISH MONASTIC LIFE By ABBOT GASQUET, O.S.B., D.D., Ph.D., D.Litt. Third Edition. With 42 Illustrations, 5 Maps, and 3 Plans Preface-List of Manuscripts and Printed Books-The Monastic Life—The Materia] Parts of a Monastery—The Monastery and its Rulers-The Obedien t.anes—The Daily Life in a Monastery-The Nuns of Medieval England- External Relations of the Monastic Orders—The Paid Servants of the Monastery -The Vanous Religious Order*—List of English Religious Houses—Index. u,h,VW delifht.ful book' 90 ful1 °f 1ua!nt learig, » like a painted window, through which, if one looks, one may see the old world of the Middle Ages as that world must have shown itself to a monk.—Daily Ne-ws. Curiously interesting and highly instructive.—Punch. An extremely interesting summary of the laws which governed the religious and domestic life in the great monasteries.— Yorkshire Post. REMAINS OF THE PREHISTORIC AGE IN ENGLAND By BERTRAM C. A WINDLE, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.S.A. With 94 Illustrations by Edith Mary Windle Preface—Introductory, Divisions of the Prehistoric Period—Stone Implements, Method of Manufacture — Stone Implements, Eoliths, Palaeoliths, Neolithic Types, Overlap with Metal—The Metallic Age, Copper, Bronze—Bone Imple- ments, Engravings, Carvings, and Art of Primitive Man, Ornaments—Places of Burial, Barrows Long and Round—Megalithic Remains, Dolmens, Cists, Circles, Alignments, Menihirion—Earthworks, Camps, Dykes—Early Places of Habita- tion, Pit-dwellings, Hut-circles, Souterrains, Dene-holes, Beehive Houses, Pile- dwellings, Crannoges, Terramare—The Late Celtic or Early Iron Age—Physical Remains of Prehistoric Man—Appendix—Index. It gives a tabulated list of such remains ; divided into counties, and subdivided into earthworks, barrows, camps, dykes, megalithic monuments, and so on, with detailed explanations ; to these are added a list of museums in which specimens of prehistoric remains are preserved. Confining himself almost entirely to accepted facts in the science of archaeology, the Professor devotes no more space to what he describes as theory spinning about the dates of various epochs than is necessary to present the subject with completeness especially on its geological side. Mrs. Windle's excellent illustrations throughout the volume add greatly to its value.—Yorkshire Post. THE OLD SERVICE-BOOKS OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH By CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, M.A., AND HENRY LITTLEHALES With 38 Plates, 4 of which are in Colour Preface—Introduction—On Mediaeval Service-Books—The Various Books : Books for Divine Service in Choir, etc.—The Processional—Books for the Altar Service of the Mass—Books for the Occasional Offices—Episcopal Service-Books—The Books for Directing Public Services—Of Books used by Lay-Folk—Miscellaneous Subjects—Appendix—Index. It is infinitely more than a fascinating book on the treasures of past ages. It