THE FATHERS. Tertullian, 18. St. Dionysius, 65. St. Ambrose, 99, 354. .......... THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM, 14, 47, 121, 146, 187, 278, PAGE 388 329 376 NOTES ON CHURCH CUSTOMS. Cross in Baptism, Turning to the East, Kneeling in Prayer, SABBATH MEDITATIONS. The Millennium, 16. Repentance .......... 308 241 What has the British Operative to do with Protestantism? ... 262 Jonathan brought back to his Good Old Mother...... An Account of a Reform which make a People Prosperous, &c, 267 TEWKESBURY, which is a place of great antiquity, is supposed to have derived its name from Theot, a Saxon recluse, who, during the latter period of the Octarchy, founded a hermitage here, where he lived in solitude and devotion, and from whom it was called Theotisberg, from which its present appellation is derived. In 715, a monastery was founded here by the two brothers Odo and Dodo, dukes of Mercia, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which, after having experienced great injury during the Danish wars, became a cell to the Abbey of Cranborne, in Dorsetshire. After the conquest, Robert Fitz-Haimon, who attended William in his expedition to Britain, enlarged the buildings of this monastery, and so amply augmented its possessions, that the monks of Cranborne removed, in 1101, to Tewkesbury, which they made the principal seat of their establishment; it subsequently was raised into an abbey of Benedictine monks, and continued to flourish till the dissolution, at which time its revenue was estimated at 1,5987. 1s. 3d. The present parish church, dedicated to St. Mary, was formerly the collegiate church of the ancient monastery. It is a cruciform structure, chiefly in the Norman style of architecture, with a richly ornamented tower rising from the centre, and supported on four massive piers with circular arches. The nave and choir are separated from the aisles by cylindrical columns and circular arches: the former is lighted by a range of clerestory windows in the later style, inserted in the Norman arches of the triforium; and the latter by windows in the decorated style, with rich tracery, and embellished with portions of ancient stained glass. The windows of the aisles and transepts are decorated, and of later date; whilst the west window is an insertion of later Gothic, within a very capacious Norman arch. The roof is richly grained. The east end of the choir is hexagonal, and contains several chantry chapels. There are some remains of a chapter-house, which now form a school-house. There are some monuments in the church, from the earliest period of the decorated to the latest period of the perpendicular style of architecture, among which are several to the early patrons of the abbey. The living is a vicarage in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, endowed with 4007., private benefaction, and 6007. royal bounty, and in the patronage of the crown. Bible Notes. NO. I.-MONEY. "ALTHOUGH the Scriptures frequently mention gold, silver, brass, certain sums of money, purchases made with money, and money of a certain weight; yet the use of coin or stamped money appears to have been of late introduction among them. Calmet is of opinion that the ancient Hebrews took silver and gold only by weight, and that they regarded the purity of the metal, and not the stamp. The most ancient mode of carrying on trade, unquestionably, was by way of barter, or exchanging one commodity for another-a custom which obtains in some places even to this day. In process of time such metals as were deemed the most valuable were received into traffic, and were weighed out; until the inconveniences of this method induced men to give to each metal a certain mark, weight, and degree of alloy, in order to determine its value, and save both buyers and sellers the trouble of weighing and examining the metal. In some cases the earliest coins bore the impression of a particular figure in others they were made to resemble objects of nature. The coinage of money was of late date among the Persians, Greeks, and Romans. The Persians had none coined before the reign of Darius, the son of Hystaspes; nor had the Greeks (whom the Romans most probably imitated) any before |