_The Ten Commandments in Ten Lines._--In looking over the Registers of the
Parish of Laneham, Notts, last April, I discovered on one of the leaves the
Commandments with the above title. It is signed "Richard Christian, 1689:"
he was vicar at that time.
"Have thou no other Gods Butt me.
Unto no Image bow thy knee
Take not the name of God in vain
Doe not thy Sabboth day profaine
Honour thy ffather and Mother too
And see y^t thou no murder doo
ffrom vile Adultry keep the cleane
And Steale not tho thy state be meane
Bear no ffalse Witness, shun y^t Blott
What is thy neighbour's Couet not.
Whrite these thy Laws Lord in my heart
And Lett me not from them depart."