ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 3J5 



drawn between the prior and sacrist does not appear, nor the 

 date when ; only that it happened in the reign of Hen. VI. This 

 transaction probably took place when Bernes entered on his 

 office ; and there is the more reason to suppose that to be the 

 case, because the list consists of vestments and implements, and 

 relics, such as belonged to the church of the Priory, and fell 

 under the care of the sacrist. For the numerous items I shall 

 refer the curious reader to the Note, and shall just mention the 

 relics, although they are not all specified ; and the state of the 

 live stock of the monastery at that juncture. 



" Item 2. osculator. argent. 



"Item 1. osculatorium cum osse digiti auricular. Sa. Johannis 

 Baptist ce* 



"Item 1. parvam crucem cum V. reliquiis. 



"Item 1. anulum argent, et deauratum St. Edmundi.f 



" Item 2. osculat. de coper. 



" Item 1. junctorium St. Ricardi.J 



"Item 1. pecten St. Ricardi." 



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

 of " 2 vacce, 1 sus, 4 hoggett. et 4 porcell." viz. two cows, one 

 sow, four porkers, and four pigs. 



shasshobe Item i securim Item n scabell. de ferro pro cancell Item i plane Item i cistam sine 

 cerura Item xmi sonas Item xix taperes ponder xm 16 et dimid. Item n torches ponder xx!6 

 Item xii 16 cere et dimid. Item de candelis de cera ponder vi 16 Item 1 16 de frank et sence 

 Item i lagenam olei Item ix pondera de plumbo (Vide de stauro in tergo) et in tergo 



scribuutur haec, ** n vacce i sus mi hoggett et mi porcell." 



* How the convent came by the bone of the little finger of St. John the Baptist does not 

 appear ; probably the founder, \vhile in Palestine, purchased it among the Asiatics, who were at 

 that time great traders in relics. We know from the best authority that as soon as Herod had 

 cruelly beheaded that holy man, " his disciples came and took up the body and buried it, and 

 went and told Jesus." Matt. iv. 12. Further would be difficult to say. 



t November 20, in the calendar, Edmund king and martyr, in the 9th century. ' See also a 

 Sanctus Fdmundus in Godwin, among the archbishops of Canterbury, in the 13th century ; his 

 surname Rich, in 1234. 



i April 3, ibid. Richard bishop of Chichester, in the 13th 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. 



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

 ecclesiam procederent, crines pecterent. E quibus colligitur monachos, tune temporis, non 

 omniuo tonsos fuisse." Du Fresue. 



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 into their meals. 



