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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...The difference between standing and temporary Councillors is well put by Queen Elizabeth in telling the House of Commons that "she misliked that such irreverence was shown to Privy Councillors, who were not to be accounted as common knights and burgesses of the House, who are Councillors only during the Parliament, whereas the others are standing Councillors, and for their wisdom and great service are called to the service of the State." R. PASSINOnAM. The Lord Chief Justices and Lord Chief Baron arc always sworn in as Privy Councillors on assuming office. Orientation Of Churches (5th S. iv. 209.)--Andreanus asks, "Why do the axes of many churches vary so widely from the true east 1.... it cannot be ignorance of the true east." But why not? I lately was for some time puzzled by the inconsistency, as to points of the compass, in two maps of an estate. The mystery was at length explained. One of the surveyors, cognizant of the variation of the compass and of its amount, but ignorant or forgetful of its direction, had doubled the error which he intended to correct, and so given his points some 40 wrong. I have often seen the orientation of churches and the frequent occurrence of deviation from the true east discussed, but I do not remember to have ever seen the variation of the compass alluded to as a possible source of error. G. 0. E. In all probability, churches that were built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were fixed according to the guidance of the mariner's compass. This being so, and the variation of the magnetic pole being an acknowledged fact, not only could the eccentricity of the axis of a church be satisfactorily accounted for, but that eccentricity could, without actual inspection, be ascertained from the date of the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236456465
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 598
  • Spine Width: 31 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236456467
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1052 gr


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