Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Bibles Chained to the Pews. [ARTICLE]

Bibles Chained to the Pews.

In an account of the parish of Little Stan more, close to Edgware, published by Rev. B. J. Armitago in 1849, It 1b stated that many of the prayer books given by the Duke of Chandos, who rebuilt tho church, “still remainod chained to the pews for tho use of the poorer parishioners. ” The present rector, Rev. J B. Norman, it is Interesting to note, informed a correspondent of tho current number of the Library that, although the books disappeared long ago, there are still some traces of tho old state of things, “the staplos remaining In many of the pews, and in ono or two cases a portion of the chain Is attached. ” —Fall Mall Gazette.