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greater value than ;£150 a year; to this number were to headded 88 sinecures., 26 appropriators, and one impropriator,and 858 livings which had not been returned by the Trusteesof Queen Anne’s bounty, making the total number of ChurchLivings in England and Wales , to amount to 10,021.

The total amount of the Church Revenue has been esti-mated at about three millions, and the sum of about 3640,000is said to be applied to the purposes of the Queen’s bounty.

ANNIVERSARY days, among our ancestors, more par-ticularly denoted those days on which the martyrdoms of thesaints were yearly celebrated in the church, the origin ofwhich is referred by some writers to Pope Anacletus , and byothers to Felix I.

ANOINTING. The ceremony of anointing Kings at theiraccession to the throne, was practised by the Jews , and soonafter the introduction of Christianity adopted in Europe . Itis stated to have been lirst performed at the coronation ofPepin, King of France , in 750, and in this country of Ed-mund, King of the East Angles, in 857, or according toothers, of Alfred in 872.

ANTHEMS. St. Ignatius is stated to have introducedthis mode of singing into the church service among theGreeks, and St. Ambrose among the Latins, about the closeof the fourth century. Anthems were introduced into thereformed service of the English church, in the reign ofElizabeth. t ,.

ANTIMONY . The ancients, it is supposed, were not ac-quainted with Antimony as a distinct metal, though theywere with the Oxyde of Antimony, which was chiefly usedby the women to add lustre to their eyes, as is still customaryin India ; thus Jezebel , understanding that Jehu was to enter