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Is anybody out there scholar in English Ecclesiastical History from medieval times to 17th century? I have asked this question and it either goes off topic, or people just guess at the answer. You lot are pretty sharp so I am hoping somebody will know.

I have a knight who died in 1618. A respected genealogy and antiquarian book published about 1907 said that he had a tomb and effigy in a chapel in a certain church. I found it, still there in the church. Later research (not by me. This comes from the church.) found a masons mark on the tomb. This mason died at least 100 years previous to my knight. Research also showed that the original knight's coat of arms had been removed and replaced with my guy's. Research also showed that the chapel was a Chantry for the previous knight before the Reformation. So my question is this. Was it common practice in that era to do what my knight did? I was kind of shocked, but then it was a different time.

I am going way back here. Rev. Thomas Blakiston was a member of a very prominent Durham family. His brother John was one of the Regicides, but his father Marmaduke was very high church. His brother George emigrated to Maryland. The Maryland Historical Magazine (Vol.2 Issue 1, 1907 p.54) says that Rev. Thomas Blakiston was "ejected during the Civil wars 1640/1". I want to know why and how this happened. Does anybody know? Or does anybody know any Civil war sites, experts or forums where I could ask? I have to do this online because I am in Canada.

Thanks very much for your help. You folks always come through.

I have a page from a 1818 baptismal register that has a couple of children of the family that I am researching registered as 'half baptised'. A couple of years later they are registered in the same church in the normal was as being baptised.  Now, I'm an Anglican, (as were they) and I always thought that either you were baptised or you weren't.  Maybe somebody with more religious education can tell me what is going on here.  Has anybody else seen or heard of this?

These children were from an affluent family that all lived reasonably close by in the suburbs London, so it wasn't like they had to wait to get together.   

I have decided that I have so many books in print, on CDs and on my hard drive that I need some library software.  I'm looking for advice from other RootsChatters.  Most of my books are antiquarian, well before ISBNs were thought of, but can be found in the British Library, Internet Archive, or Open Library.  I'm looking for a kind of software (below $50 CDN) that I can use on Windows XP that will download bibliographic details from the internet.  It must also be easy to use for a non-technical person.  I have tested the following:

All My Books
Will download details by typing in partial titles, but will not search the Internet Archive, only Google Books.
Simplistic.  Does not download or show many details.

BiblioteQ
Way too technical.  Couldn't even get it to install properly

BookCAT
It would search Internet Archive and the British Library as well as many others all at once
The date function was UK and not US (Hooray!)
I loved the flexibility, BUT
I could only figure out how to make it download from the internet with an ISBN.  If it could only search for books on the internet by title, it would be perfect.  Does anybody know how to make it do that?  (Not too technical, please.)

I'm considering downloading and testing Book Collector.  Any advice on that one?  Will it do what I need it to do?

Downloading bibliographic details from the internet, and/or the British Library automatically is the deal-breaker, because these hundreds of 18th and 19th century books have huge titles, etc. that I don't want to have to input manually.