Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 by Various
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ecclesiastical sonnets, without an author assigned:--
"A verse may catch a wandering soul that flies More powerful tracts: and by a blest surprise Convert delight into a sacrifice." Query, Who was the author of them? R.W.E. Hull. _Daresbury, the White Chapel of England._--Sometime ago I copied the following from a local print:-- "'_Nixon's Prophecy._--When a fox without cubs shall sit in the White Chapel of England, then men shall travel to Paris without horses, and kings shall run away and leave their crowns.' "The present incumbent of Daresbury, Cheshire (the White Chapel of England), is the Rev. Mr. Fawkes, who (1849) is unmarried. The striking accomplishment--railway travelling and the revolutions of the present year--must be obvious to every one." My Query to the above is this: Why is the church of Daresbury called the White Chapel of England, and how did the name originate? The people in the neighbourhood, I understand, know nothing on the subject. An answer to the above from one of your learned correspondents would greatly oblige. |
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