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Identifier: oldnewenglandchu00bacouoft (find matches)
Title: Old New England churches and their children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bacon, Mary Schell (Hoke), 1870-
Subjects: New England -- Church history
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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be buried; theLord do so to me and more also, if aught butdeath part thee from me. The site for St. Johns Church on Church Hillwas given to the parish by an Englishman, andthe first structure was Queens Chapel, so namedin honour of Queen Caroline. She, in recognitionof this christening, sent the parish a Bible, prayerbooks, and a communion service. The last isstill in use. The Bible came to be known as thevinegar Bible. Franklin Ware Davis presentsits history thus: It was published in 1717 by John Basket ofOxford, the Kings printer, on the best of vellum.A mistake was made in the guide line at the headof one page in the gospels, and the compositormade a few volumes and his employers name fa-mous ever after by setting up the words parableof the vinegar instead of the vineyard. Fortycopies had been struck off before this was noticed.Of these only four exist to-day. These are atSt. Johns, Portsmouth; Christs Chui1:h, Bos-ton; Christ Church, Philadelphia; and the Len-ox Library, New York.
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oo X ^ X is is-?:- = c ?i oco a) c Old St. Johns Church, Portsmouth, N. H. 373 Franklin Davis gives us another detail ofinterest. When independence was declared, andprayers for the English sovereigns had becomeobjectionable, there was pasted over the old onescertain new forms of prayer. This was done eitherin a spirit of thrift or as the result of necessity,since probably new books were unobtainable.An English officer in looking over the prayer bookfound the extraordinary readjustment and in hisrage cut out the page with his sword. This isnot well authenticated but it makes a good story,and it were a shame to lose a good story even ifone must make poor history. St. Johns bell has itshistory also. When Pepperell stormed Louis-bourg his men captured the bell which had himgin the French cathedral. This was presented toQueens Chapel in 1806. The chapel was burnedand the bell was cracked in the heat but afterwardit was recast by Paul Revere. In 1896 it againcracked and the successors to th

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