A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Record Office. 1 These are for the most part fuller than in other 

 counties. Hampshire was certainly what would now be termed a High 

 Church county, and most of the parishes seem to have retained all they 

 could up to that date. Two of these inventories are given as examples. 



ALVERSTOKE. 



Imprimis. In the staple iii belles and a santus bell. It' a beadmans bell and iii 

 lytell belles. It' iii chalyces of Sylver w'' patenes. It' a sylverne pec * to drynke yn. 

 It' broken sylver to ye Value of vid. It' iii Rynges of Sylver. It' a gyrdyll of grene 

 Sylke v/ buckell stud and pendant of Sylver. It' a Cope of purple velvett. It' a veste- 

 ment of blew Satyn. It' a vestement of Whyt Cruell. It' iiii old vestementes of 

 dornex. It' iii albes w l chesibles. It' ii tynycles of chang'ell sylke. It' ii hangynges 

 of blew Chamlett, and tawny. It' a pawle of clothe of Crewell. It' a banner clothe 

 of Sylke w' a pelow of Red Sylke. It' iiii table clothys w l a shete. It' viii Ker- 

 chiffes. It' a pyx of latyn. It' iiii candle-styckes of latyn. It' ii prycketts of latyn. 

 It' a holy water pot of latyn'. It' ii hanginges of dornex. It' i crosse of lattyn. It' 

 a sensor of lattyn w'' a shyp of the same. It' a kaneype of Sylke. It' ii kanapes 

 of nedell work to hang ye pyx yn. It' iii lynnyn stremores staynyd, w'' iii other 

 staynyd clothys. It' iiii cofferes and ii payer of harness. 3 It' iiii cruettes and ii 

 Corporas casys. The residew of the goodes specyfyed in the old Invyntory ys stolen 

 as playnly shall be declaryed. It' sold for reparacyon of the Churche xxx Ii of waxe 

 and xx Ii of olde yarn.* 



EXTON. 



Fyrst i pyx of copper and gylt stolen owte of the Churche. It' i chalys parcell 

 gylt w'' a patten. It' i crosse of copper gylte. It' i payr of crewettes of tynne. It' 

 i oyle box of tynne. It' ii candlestyckes of latten. It' iii belles in the tower. It' 

 i lytle bell and i sanctus bell and ii sacryng belles. It' i payer of vestment w'' strakyd 

 velvet w'' albe and chyseble. It' i payr of vestment of red satten. It' i olde vest- 

 ment of red velvet. It' i vestment of red Sylke. It' i vestment chaungeable sylke. 

 It' i cope of red satten of Bruges. It' iii corporas w'' iii cases. It' i banner of sylke 

 chaungeable. It' i aulter cloth of whyte fustian braunchyd. It' i surples. It' iiii 

 rotchets. It' v aulter clothes of playn lynnen. It' iii towelles of lynnen and dyaper. 

 It' ii font clothes of lynnen. It' i latten censer. It' i basyn of tynne. It' j holy 

 water pot of latten. It' i pax of glasse. 6 



Amongst other churches that had been robbed by unknown thieves 

 during the interval between the two inventories may be named Meon- 

 stoke, which lost a cope of black satin of Bruges, a green vestment of 

 satin of Bruges, a tawny vestment embroidered with gold, and a white 

 vestment of sarcenet ; and Sopley, from whence were taken a set of 

 blue damask vestments, a cope of baudekin, an altar cloth of satin of 

 Bruges, and a set of white baudekin vestments. In some cases the 

 parishioners or churchwardens had parted with some of the goods for 

 other church purposes. At Warblington the parishioners had sold 



1 There is now an excellent MS. index in two volumes to all these church goods inventories 

 arranged under counties. Those for the Isle of Wight have been given in extenso in the appendix to 

 Mr. Percy G. Stone's Architectural Antiquities of the Isle of Wight. 



' This ' pec ' or piece of old silver might be the calamus or pipe through which the communicants 

 received the wine before the cup was denied to the laity. But a more probable explanation is that it 

 was a cup used at bridals. 



3 Parish armour for the two men they had to supply. 



1 The wardens often had large stores of wax and yarn for making the great tapers (' serges ' or 

 ' torches ') for mortuary use, and for the big sacring tapers lighted at the mass. These were now 

 forbidden. 



^ The pax was generally of metal, occasionally silver, but more often latten. Glass is a most 

 unusual material. Chicheley gave one of glass to his college of All Souls', Oxford. 



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