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St Michael, Hawkshead: Scripture
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Sentences from Scripture
James Addison, Hornby, Lancashire, was invited to clean the church walls and:-
"peint 26 Sentances of Scripture ... and to border and flourish them"
which he did in 1680. William Mackerath, Hawkshead, repainted some in 1711-12, added the list of churchwardens, and a new sentence near the pulpit which has the dialect t' for the. All were whitewashed over in 1794, but revealed again in 1875.

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