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BY THE REV. W. A. JONES, M.A., F.G.S. 



THE original MS., of which the following is a copy, is 

 on parchment. It was brought first to light during 

 an examination of the records and archives of the Corpo- 

 ration of Bridgwater, which, by their permission, was 

 undertaken by the Rev. W. H. Black, late of the Becord 

 office, and myself. It bears no date, but the handwriting 

 is clearly of the 15th Century. The Bev. Dr. Oliver, of 

 Exeter, considers that it was written in the reign of 

 Henry VI. It is now given, verhatim et literatim, from 

 the original, because of the great interest it possesses to 

 the philologist, and to the ecclesiastical and local anti- 

 quarian. 



The vestments require no comment, as they correspond 

 more or less with those still in use by the Boman Catholic 

 Church. There are two entries, however, which are 

 peculiar, and as such deserving of special notice. One is 

 the " ij steyned clothes to stond bifore the Tablemer in 



