crip-tions ; Remember the poor being one veryfrequently met with by those who, like thewriter, never pass a country church withoutentering it, provided the doors are not locked.The box in the pretty little church at Bramford,in Suffolk, has, under the date 1591 :— Remember the poor : the Scripture… … ALMS-BOXES AND ALMS-DISHES. 157 to one of the sears in the nave of the church ofNorth Mims, Hertfordshire ; and on the carvedoak box in BilHngham Church, in the county ofDurham, against a pillar in the south aisle, withthe date 1673. There was a curiouscustom connected withthe triple-locked box…
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