348 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



" Item i. anulum argent, et deauratum St. 



" Item 2. osculat. de coper. 



" Item i. junctorium St. Ricardi.^ 



"Item i. pecten St. Ricardi"% 



The staumm, or live stock, is quite ridiculous, consisting only 

 of " 2 vacce, i sus, 4 hoggett. et 4 porcell." viz., two cows one 

 sow, four porkers, and four pigs. 



LETTER XIX. 



STEPE died towards the end of the year 1453, as we may suppose 

 pretty far advanced in life, having been prior forty- four years. 



On the very day that the vacancy happened, viz., January 26th 

 1453-4, the sub-prior and convent petitioned the visitor " vos 

 unicum levam en nostrum, et spem unanimiter rogamus, quatinus 

 eligendum ex nobis unum confratrem de gremio nostro, in nostra 

 religione probatum et expertem, licenciam vestram paternalem 

 cum plena libertate nobis concedere dignemini graciose." Reg. 

 Waynflete, torn. I. 



Instead of the license requested we find next a commission 

 " custodie prioratus de Selebourne durante vacatione," addressed 

 to brother Peter Berne, canon-regular of the priory of Selebourne, 

 and of the order of St. Augustine, appointing him keeper of the 



* November 2Oth, in the calendar, Edmund king and Martyr, in the 9th 

 century. See also a Sanctus Edmundus in Godwin, among the archbishops of 

 Canterbury, in the 1 3th century ; his surname Rich, in 1234. 



t April 3rd, ibid. Richard Bishop of Chichester, in the I3th century, his 

 surname De la Wich in 1245. 



Junctorium, perhaps a joint or limb of St. Richard ; but what particular joint 

 the religious were not such osteologists as to specify. This barbarous word was 

 not to be found in any dictionary consulted by the author. 



J " Pecten inter ministeria sacra recensetur, quo scil. sacerdotes ac clerici, 

 antequam in ecclesiam procederent, crines pecterent. E quibus colligitur 

 monachos, tune temporis, non omnino tonsos fuisse." Du FRESNE. 



The author remembers to have seen in great farm-houses a family comb 

 chained to a post for the use of the hinds when they came in to their meals. 



