16 NOVEMBER 1934, Page 20

JUDGES AND SERMONS

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The following story may interest " Janus " (see page 558) and your readers. In, I think, 1872, my uncle (the late Rev. Joshua Greaves, J.P., Vicar of Great Missenden, Bucks) was Chaplain to the High Sheriff. When the Summer Assize was opened at Aylesbury the judge, Mr. Justice Bramwell, said : " If, Mr. Chaplain, you have here any of those things called hymns, we will have none of them today ; and I shall not trouble you for a sermon." Few and short were the prayers we said that morning in the fine parish church of the county town of Buckinghamshire.—Yours truly, Royal Societies Club, St. James's Street, S.W .1.

C. B. Gann.