30 MARCH 1867, Page 22

English Church Furniture at the Period of the Reformation. Edited

by Edward Peacock. (J. C. Hotten.)—Mr. Peacock has published here a collection of returns from various parishes in Lincolnshire of the ecclesiastical ornaments destroyed by the avenging hands of Church- wardens in 1566. Roods, mass books, and "images of papistrie," a1bes, amices, and vestments were " burnte," "cut in peces," or "put to pro- phane use." The destroying churchwardens could hardly have thought that there would be such a revival of these things three hundred years later.