solidorum] Duo paria corporalium bona 
et satis ydonea et unum altare marmo- 
reum portabile et una pixis eburnea de- 
pendens super altare cum eukarista et 
deferendum corpus Domini infirmis et 
alia lignea depicta et duo fiole de stanno 
et v vexilla vetera et unum bonum Item 
duo panni serici ante altare et duo alii 
ad modum thoralis et unus lineus flori- 
bus protractus et una vetus cortina et 
unus pannus quadragesimalis vetus et 
attritus et tria pepla ad Mariolam co- 
operiendam linea Item duo candelabra 
de cupro et thuribulum eneum et est 
ibi sacrarium sufficiens [* Item Liber 
Evangeliorum vetus et attritus] et crux 
processionalis de cupro Item i pecten 
eburneum. 
“4 Haec sunt postmodum adquisita 
iiii mantilia quorum unum est paratum 
i crux processionalis de gagate Item i 
alba parata de dono Margarete de Sele 
(> Item i casula serica de dono Galfridi 
presbiteri] Item i vexillum sericum de 
By C. E. Ponting, F.S.A. 
57 
“‘ Also 15 towels,! sufficient of which 
8 or more are blessed, and 2 chalices 
gilt, of which one is of the weight of 
24 shillings, and the other of 19 shil- 
lings. 
“Two sets of corporals, good and 
sufficiently serviceable, and one portable 
altar of marble, and one pix? of ivory, 
hanging down over the altar, with eu- 
charist ; and another of silver, of the 
weight of 4 shillings, to carry the Lord’s 
Body to the sick, and another of wood 
decorated with painting, and 2 cruets 
of tin, and 5 old banners and 1 good. 
* Also two silk cloths before the 
altar, and two others after the fashion 
of a coverlet, and one linen, encircled 
with flowers, and one old curtain; and 
one lenten cloth old and worn, and three 
linen cloaks to cover up the image of 
the Blessed Virgin. Also two candle- 
sticks of eopper, and a brass thurible, 
and there is a sufficient sacring bell and 
a cross for processions, of copper. Also 
one ivory comb.6 These were subse- 
-1The word towel, as used in old inventories, has three significations. First, 
it means the rich covering of silk and gold which used to be laid over the top of 
the altar except during mass; secondly, it refers to linen altar cloths ; thirdly, 
_ the word towel is used in its ordinary acceptation to signify linen cloths for 
wiping the hands. 
2 Pix, in its literal sense, means a box, but it is generally understood as a 
vessel to contain the holy eucharist. Pixes were, however, used as reliquaries, 
and as cases for altar bread. 
3 Erased in later hand. Not given in Hoare or Baron. 
4 All from here is in the same later hand as the marginal notes. 
5 Not in Hoare or Baron. 
—§*Qombs were among the appurtenances of an ancient sacristy, and were 
sometimes exceedingly beautiful in design. Durandus, Rationale, lib. iv., c. 3, 
states that of old bishops, when about to celebrate, were wont to comb their 
heads. This is a custom borrowed from the East, and still retained in the Greek 
“Church. (In an archiepiscopal liturgy in 1870 I saw the long back hair of a 
Greek archbishop ritually combed out during the service). If it was a bishop 
who pontificated, the deacon and sub-deacon combed his hair as soon as his 
sandals had been put on his feet, while sitting on his fald-stool ; if a priest 
