I leave the tops open. If covered, they must be so disposed that the air within the boxes shall freely communicate with that of the chest or closet.
I have used these boxes several years, and only changed the lime once a year.
B. H. C.
Philadelphia.
POSITION OF THE CLERGY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
The Proceedings and Papers of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Session IV., 1851-2, include a paper contributed by Thomas Dorning Hibbert, of the Middle Temple, Esq., being the second of a series of "Letters relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, temp. James I., Charles I., and Charles II."
One of these letters, written in or about the year 1605, by the Rev. William Batemanne, from Ludgarsall (Ludgar's Hall), "a parish which lies in the counties of Oxford and Bucks," and addressed "to his louinge father Ihon Batemanne, alderman at Maxfelde" (Macclesfield), contains, as the learned contributor remarks, "strong confirmation of Mr. Macaulay's controverted statement, that the country clergy occupied a very humble position in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries." He adds, that "no clergyman could now be found who would think of sending his sister to an inn to learn household matters."
The Rev. William Batemanne, "who appears to have been educated at Oxford," writes thus: