_Parochial Libraries_ (Vol. vi., p. 432.; Vol. vii., pp. 193. 369.).--Upon
visiting Cartmel in Lancashire ten years ago, I found a library in the
vestry, and in my diary made the following entry:
"There is a small library in the vestry, of a very miscellaneous
description, left by a former incumbent, two hundred years ago, to the
vicar for the time being, to be kept in the vestry. There is a fine
copy, in small quarto, of Spenser's _Faery Queene_ in the collection,
of the date 1560."
How I ascertained the date of the gift, or whether there were any other
particulars worth recording, I do not remember. Since taking "N. & Q." I
have learnt the benefit, I might say the necessity, of being more
particular.