. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . nd it is a characteristic example of the scholarship of theseventeenth century. One couplet, which records his name ina quaint conceit, may be quoted as a specimen of the whole:— Si quseras ratio qupenam sit nominis, hsec est^Totus terra fui, terraque totus ero. So far as the pun can be rendered intoEnglish, it is this: Whole-land (Hol-land) I was and shall land-wholly(earth) be. The late Dr. Hook, afterwards vicarof Leeds, and finally Dean of Chichester,was for some years vicar of this last
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . nd it is a characteristic example of the scholarship of theseventeenth century. One couplet, which records his name ina quaint conceit, may be quoted as a specimen of the whole:— Si quseras ratio qupenam sit nominis, hsec est^Totus terra fui, terraque totus ero. So far as the pun can be rendered intoEnglish, it is this: Whole-land (Hol-land) I was and shall land-wholly(earth) be. The late Dr. Hook, afterwards vicarof Leeds, and finally Dean of Chichester,was for some years vicar of this last event in its history of anyimportance was a dispute about the pay-ment of a rate, on which the income ofthe vicar chiefly depended. Certainexceptional circumstances had causedthis to be retained when church-rates generally were abolished. It was, however,felt to be a grievance, and its levy gave rise yearly to more and more was at last manifested in riotous demonstrations; and in 1883 the rate wassuperseded by an endowment from tlie Church Estate (freed from debt by a. HOLY TlilNlTY, COVENTRY. Christ Church.] THE THIRD SPfUE. 359
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