88 PAl'EliS, ETC. 



that thcre were two Churches appropriated to tlie adjacent 

 Societies, the greatei- belonging to tlie Prioress and her 

 Sistei-ri, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and S. 

 Nicholas, the less in the possession of the Preceptor and 

 his Brethren. In which of them the reraains thus brought 

 to li"-ht originally found a phxce, or whether In the church- 

 yard, also previously mentloned, it is no\v of com'se 

 iniposslble to determine. The Prioiy Church, however, 

 as I hinted in a former page, woiild appear to have been 

 their most probable locality. The most ancient was a 

 portion of an incised slab, (see the figurc) with a few 

 Lombardic characters all but obliterated : — 



* : §lä(E «p******* CIL© : * 



The next was a fragment of the fifteenth Century, com- 

 mencing with ^ratC prO, immediately after which came 

 the envious fracture that prevented all identification of it 

 with theold worthy whose memory it was intended to iinmor- 

 talize. (See thefigure.) Parts of four letters of a second line 

 remalned — lattU — no doubt the last syllable of the name of 

 the Ilouse — thus : — 



£Drate pro 

 lanD 



A third fragment, of the sarae period as the last, read 



§>cI)frcbo 

 ppicietur D 



The former line had its two concluding letters imperfect, but 

 represented, perhaps, a part of the word " Schereborn;" the 

 latter was evidently a portion of the well known formula. 

 (See tliefigure.) There was yet another memorial, and that 

 of a most touching character. It was the only oiie that was 

 found entire, and had accordingly been taken some care of 



