to God nor are doles distributed to His poor; the epitsphium is
no longer delivered from the steps of the churchyard cross, nor
does the solemn lamprophoria symbolize the life of the
deceased."

I shall be much obliged for a fuller account of these ancient customs,
more particularly of the last two, and for notes of any allusions to
them in old books. I may say the same with reference to the following
extract from the _Handbook of English Ecclesiology_, p. 190.:

"Under this head may also be mentioned the _Funa'l_ or
_Deadlight_, which was lighted in some churchyards at night."

STOKE.


_"Rotten Row" and "Stockwell" Street._--"R.R.," of Glasgow, inquires the
etymology of these names, which, occurring both in Scotland and in
England, and at a time when the countries were almost always at war,
would scarcely have been copied by the one from the other. He rejects,
as of course, the etymology of the former from its passing by the
buildings which were old and "rotten;" neither does he favour the belief
that the original word was "Routine" Row, so called from the processions
of the church passing in that direction.

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