All Saints' Church, Maldon. By the Rev. L. Hughes. (Gower*,
Malden. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hughes has discharged one of the duties of a parish priest by describing his church and giving a history of the parish to which it is attached. The building has the unique distinction of possessing a triangular tower, and has many points of interest, though it has suffered from various causes, restoration, of course, among them. These details have chiefly a local interest, though now and then they touch a wider issue. Thomas Horroeks, for instance, who ie described as "intruder 1650" was a characteristic person whose relation to the pariih epitomises the religious history of the time. Mr. Hughes has, we see, a high opinion of the chantry priests. Sir Thomas More thought differently about them. We would refer him to a very black list of clerical offenders which he will find in " Letter Book I." (1400-1422) just published by the Corporation of Loudon. There are between sixty and seventy cases of adultery brought before the
Mayor and Aldermen, and nearly fifty are clergymen, almost all of them being chantry priests.
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