Bygone Church Life in Scotland Part 16

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"Mr. William Andrews, of Hull, is an indefatigable searcher amongst the byways of ancient English history, and it would be difficult to name an antiquary who, along his chosen lines, has made so thoroughly interesting and instructive the ma.s.s of facts a painstaking industry has brought to light. For twenty-five years he has been delving into the subject of Bygone Punishments, and is now one of the best authorities upon obsolete systems of jurisdiction and torture, for torture was, in various forms, the main characteristic of punishment in the good old times. The reformation of the person punished was a far more remote object of retribution than it is with us, and even with us reform is very much a matter of sentiment. Punishment was intended to be punishment to the individual in the first place, and in the second a warning to the rest. It is a gruesome study, but Mr. Andrews nowhere writes for mere effect. As an antiquary ought to do, he has made the collection of facts and their preservation for modern students of history in a clear, straightforward narrative his main object, and in this volume he keeps to it consistently.

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Literary Byways.

BY WILLIAM ANDREWS.

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CONTENTS:--Authors at Work--The Earnings of Authors--"Declined with Thanks"--Epigrams on Authors--Poetical Graces--Poetry on Panes--English Folk Rhymes--The Poetry of Toast Lists and Menu Cards--Toasts and Toasting--Curious American Old-Time Gleanings--The Earliest American Poetess: Anne Bradstreet--A Playful Poet: Miss Catherine Fanshawe--A Popular Song Writer: Mrs. John Hunter--A Poet of the Poor: Mary Pyper--The Poet of the Fisher-Folk: Mrs. Susan K. Phillips--A Poet and Novelist of the People: Thomas Miller--The Cottage Countess--The Compiler of "Old Moore's Almanack": Henry Andrews--James Nayler, the Mad Quaker, who claimed to be the Messiah--A Biographical Romance: Swan's Strange Story--Short Letters--Index.

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The Church Treasury of History, Custom, Folk-Lore, etc.

EDITED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS.

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CONTENTS:--Stave-Kirks--Curious Churches of Cornwall--Holy Wells--Hermits and Hermit Cells--Church Wakes--Fortified Church Towers--The Knight Templars: their Churches and their Privileges--English Mediaeval Pilgrimages--Pilgrims' Signs--Human Skin on Church Doors--Animals of the Church in Wood, Stone, and Bronze--Queries in Stones--Pictures in Churches--Flowers and the Rites of the Church--Ghost Layers and Ghost Laying--Church Walks--Westminster Waxworks--Index. Numerous Ill.u.s.trations.

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Historic Dress of the Clergy.

BY THE REV. GEO. S. TYACK, B.A.,

Author of "The Cross in Ritual, Architecture, and Art."

_Crown, cloth extra, 3s. 6d._

The work contains thirty-three ill.u.s.trations from ancient monuments, rare ma.n.u.scripts, and other sources.

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The Miracle Play in England,

An Account of the Early Religious Drama.

BY SIDNEY W. CLARKE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.