ERRAT A. In lines 29 and 30 of page 161, the whole of the sentence in a parenthesis, "(except perhaps the last mentioned)," should have been struck out. Page 164, line 13, for recovering read receiving. Page 219, for South Lincolnshire read Louth, Lincolnshire Page 236, line 14, for cardinal read cardinals. Page 236, line 22, for 1162 read 1692. Page 239, line 36, for confession read confessor. Page 243, line 23, for dispositiones read dispositionis. Special notice.-BOOKS DAMAGED. Borrowers must take the earliest opportunity of reporting to the Librarian any injury, such as written remarks, torn leaves, pages missing, etc., done to the books they receive, otherwise they will be held responsible for the same. ABOUT four miles to the eastward of Tideswell, after passing a succession of those dreary Derbyshire hills whose surface of scanty grass is only broken by the lines of cheerless stone-wall boundary which intersect them in every direction, the traveller will see before him a few patches of trees, above whose summits a small, square, unobtrusive steeple peers over the wild country. It is Eyam, which, though "little amongst the cities of the plain, and the thousands of Judah," hath a remembrance which shall not perish from the earth as long as the well-being of society shall be considered as connected with the influence of a faithful minister over an attached and respecting flock. All who feel how vividly local associations can recall scenes and events of past life, will enter fully into our views in selecting this retired spot at a moment when the pestilence, which walketh in darkness, is again mysteriously hovering around our dwellings, and when the devotion of a Mompesson may again be called for, to stand between the living and the dead, that the plague be stayed. It is with such feelings that we present Eyam Church to the notice of our readers, confident that even our brief narrative will not be without its use; and still more confident that he who should peradventure be induced, by our simple tale, to visit Eyam and its Riley graves, will, as he wanders amongst the precincts of its dead, recall with the vividness of present impression the events of years long gone by, and strengthen feelings which may be powerfully called into action for a similarly fearful season, which he knows not how soon may be at hand. In the frequently secluded and generally tranquil occupations of a clergyman's life, few indeed and far between are the opportunities which enable him, by boldly facing death in the hour of danger, to emulate the gallantry of those who, in the exercise of worldly warfare, count their lives as nothing in the performance of that sacred duty-their country's defence. But the time may come yea, rather, in some places, now is-when, in the service of a heavenly Master, the VOL. II.-Sept. 1832. B |