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P. or Pers. — Persoon in " Observationes Mycologicoe," " Mycologia Eu- 

 ropsea," and other works. 



Eost. — Eostkovius, in Sturm's " Deutschland's Flora. 



Schaeif. — Schasffer, "Fungorum Icones." 



Schum. — Schumacher, in " Enumeratio plantarum SoellandiaB." 



Scop. — Scopoli, " Flora Camiolica," 



Sommerf. — Sonunerfelt, in " Supplementum Flor» Lapponicffi." 



Sow. — Sowerby, " English Fungi," 



Tul. — Tulasne in various works. 



Vaill. — Vaillant, " Botanicon Parisiense." 



Wahl. — "Wahlenberg, " Flora Lapponica." 



Wall. — Wallroth, " Flora cryptogamica Germanioe," &o. 



Wein. — "Weinman, " Hymenomycetes. " 



Willd. — Willdenow, "Flora Berolinensis." 



Notes on the Chapel and Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, 

 Bath. By the Rev. W. Stokes Shaw. Read April 7, 1869. 



" There was an holy Chappell edifyde, 

 WTierein the hermite dewly wont to say 

 His holy things each mome and eventyde ; 

 Thereby a christaU streame did gently play, 

 Which from a sacred fountaine welled forth alway." 



" The Faery Queene" canto i., 34. 



I. The Chapel. 

 This Chapel, though till about fifty years ago only forty-five feet 

 long and fifteen broad, is not without its interest. At the end of 

 an old Saxon Manuscript of the Four Gospels, now in the Library 

 of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, occurs a Deed of gift, wi-itten 

 in Latin,* by which a certain Walter Hosat made over the Chapel 

 " Beatse Marise Magdal. de Holeweye," without Bath, and all 

 the capital messuage belonging to Walter Hosat, and situate in 

 " Holeweye," and all things thereto belonging, freed from all secular 

 service, to the Church of St. Peter, Bath, the Bishop John and the 

 Monks, for ever, on the condition that they " edificent et exaltent," 

 whatever those words may imply. The following animals formed 

 part of the gift — Six oxen, four cows, sixty sheep, and thirty rams. 

 (See Illustration I.) This gift was, as usual, for the benefit of 

 Walter Hosat's own soul, of all his ancestors and posterity, and for 



* The original is M.S., 140, C.C.C. See Report of Charity Com., 1820, on 

 Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene. 



