St. Antholin's Parish Books

In common with many of your antiquarian readers, I look forward with great pleasure to the selection from the entries in the St. Antholin's Parish Books, which are kindly promised by their present guardian, and, I may add, intelligent expositor, "W.C." St. Antholin's is, on several accounts, one of the most interesting of our London churches; it was here, Strype tells us (*Annals*, I. i. p. 199.), "the new morning prayer," *i.e.*, according to the new reformed service-book, first began in September, 1559, the bell beginning to ring at five, when a psalm was sung after the Geneva fashion, all t…