• anything like the Stoke d'Abernon brass, and does not
appear to have taken as much care as was their due of these curious relics of the past. At one place, which Miss Isherwood mercifully declines to name, the brasses were melted down to make a chandelier. She does, however, mention places where even now brasses are lying loose in the parish chest or in the church. Let us hope that this book may shame these negligent people into better behaviour. Of course, ignorant restorers have been in some cases to blame. The workmen who engraved the inscriptions seem to have been frequently illiterate, and it might have been well to correct their mistakes, a thing that can best be done when the original is accessible. The second line of the brass of Robert Halley at Goldington runs thus, " Nalneras titulos grand° sonare tues," and the fourth, " scriber° multa vestas scriber° multa pudet "; " tues" is obviously tuos, and one may conjecture Nolueras and vetas.
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