In the Derby Mercury for August 29, 1888, a correspondent writes, Henceforth, Ashford Church with its paper garlands or crantses should be visited by all Shakespeare students far and near.

It was, to put it another way, quite astonishing to see how much, and to what at extent, the party-state depended on lies.

Even the most pig-headed vestry-man feels that something unpleasant has been said about him when he has been called a Philistine, though he may have the vaguest possible conception of its precise meaning. … It is used so vaguely by people who are themselves Philistines of the deepest dye, that it is in danger of losing its meaning.

Their heads and ſhoulders are painted red with the roote Pocone brayed to powder, mixed with oyle, this they hold in ſommer to preſerue them from the heate, and in winter from the cold.