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inscription in the chapel porch, was referred to, and drawings 

 shown of the fragments of the window he placed there, with 

 photographs of the niches ascribed to him. Mr. Irvine had 

 pointed out a curious circumstance, that from the construction of 

 windows and doorways at the west end of the building the Chapel 

 seems to have had a gallery since the time of Prior Cantlow. 

 Referring to the Hospital, allusion was made to a grant of an 

 indulgence to the benefactors of the Hospital in 1332, under the 

 name of " St. Cross and Mary Magdalene," and also to the fair 

 granted to the monks in 1304, and held in the vicinity of the 

 Chapel on the Festival of the Invention of the Cross. The question 

 was raised whether there was any connection between this Hospital 

 of St. Cross and the "Cross Bath," which, according to Leland, 

 was used by " persons diseased of lepre," and near which was 

 situated property belonging to the Hospital. In the second year of 

 Queen Elizabeth the Hospital served its original purpose as a home 

 for lepers, as appears from an inquisition then made ; but one 

 hundred years later, in 1662, from an inscription in the Chapel to 

 a Mrs. Biggs, which says that " A sauing fayth shee had and 

 innocence, and therefore here with Innocents would lye," the object 

 of the charity appears to have been directed to its present 

 intention, viz., that of an asylum for idiots. The questions there- 

 fore connected with these buildings, on which it seems desirable, if 

 possible, to obtain more information, are — Why was the Chapel 

 placed where it is 1 Is anything move known of the Hosats, or 

 Prior Cantlow 1 How came the Hospital united to the Chapel ? 

 Why was the use of the Hospital changed ? Has it any connection 

 with the Cross Bath ? 



Mr. Irvine gave an account of the late discoveries on the site of 

 the White Hart Hotel, and said that they exceeded in interest 

 anything found since the year 1790. Fine pieces of the side and 

 front of the cornices of the old Roman Temple had been dug up 

 on April 2nd and 3rd in the western cellar under Westgate Street, 

 to the north of the present new buildings. The cai-ving was bold, 

 and represented a portion of a finely carved lion's head, through 

 which the water was discharged from the roof of the Temple, and 

 a reveraed fleur-de-lis. Many other fragments of massive wajl 



