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6 Considering the strong propensity inhuman nature towards the pleasures 

 of the chase, it is not to be wondered that the canons of Canterbury should 

 languish after hunting, when from their situation, so near the precincts of 

 Wolmer Forest, the king's hounds must have been often in hearing, and 

 sometimes in sight from their windows. If the bishop was so offended at 

 these sporting canons, what would he have said to our modern fox-hunting 

 divines! G. W. 



6 " Liberationes, or liberaturae, allowances of corn, etc., to servants, de- 

 livered at certain times and in certain quantities, as clothes, were among the 

 allowances from religious houses to their dependants. See the corrodies 

 granted by Croyland Abbey. Hist, of Croyland, Appendix, No. XXXIV. 



" It is not improbable that the word in after ages came to be confined to 

 the uniform of the retainers or servants of the great, who were hence called 

 livery servants." SIR JOHN CULLUM'S Hist, of Hawsted. G. W. 



7 A corrody is an allowance to a servant living in an abbey or priory. 

 G. W. 



8 Pitancia, an allowance of bread and beer, or other provision to any pious 

 use, " especially to the religious in a monastery, etc., for augmentation of 

 their commons." Gloss, to Kennefs Par. Ant. G. W. 



9 The relationship between sponsors and their god-children, who were 

 called spiritual sons and daughters, was formerly esteemed much more sacred 

 than at present. The presents at christenings were sometimes very con- 

 siderable : the connection lasted through life, and was closed with a legacy. 

 This last mark of attention seems to have been thought almost indispen- 

 sable : for, in a will from whence no extracts have been given, the testator 

 left every one of his god-children a bushel of barley." SIR JOHN CULLUM'S 

 Hist, of Hawsted. 



" De Margaretae filiae regis primogenitae, quam filiolam, quia ejus in bap- 

 tismo compater fuit, appellat, cyphum aureum et quadraginta libras, legavit." 

 ARCHBISHOP PARKER de Antiquitate Eccles. Brit., speaking of Archbishop 

 Morton. G. W. 



10 De Fresne is copious on caligae of several sorts, " Hoc item de Clericis, 

 presertim beneficiatis : caligis scacatis (chequered) rubeis, et viridibus pub- 

 lice utentibus dicimus esse censendum." Statut. Eccles. Tutel. The cheq- 

 uered boots seem to be the highland plaid stockings. "Burnetum, i.e. 

 Brunetum, pannus non ex lana nativi coloris confectus." "Sotularium, 

 i.e. subtalaris, quia sub talo est. Peculium genus, quibus maxime Monachi 

 nocte utebantur in aestate ; in hyeme vero Soccis." 



This writer gives many quotations concerning Sotularia, which were not 

 to be made too shapely ; nor were the caligae to be laced on too nicely. 

 G. W. 



11 "Men abhorred the offering of the Lord." i Sam. ii. 17. Strange 

 as this account may appear to modern delicacy, the author, when first in 

 orders, twice met with similar circumstances attending the sacrament at two 

 churches belonging to two obscure villages. In the first he found the inside 

 of the chalice covered with birds' dung ; and in the other the communion 

 cloth soiled with cabbage and the greasy drippings of a gammon of bacon. 

 The good dame at the great farmhouse, who was to furnish the cloth, 



