590 ANTIQUITIES 



" Item 1 parvam cruccm cum V. rellquiis. 



" Item 1 anulum argent, et deauratum St. Edmundi 2 . 



" Item 2 osculat. de coper. 



" Item Ijunctorium St. Ricardi 3 . 



" Item 1 pecten St. Ricardi 4 ." 



The staurum, or live stock, is quite ridiculous, con- 

 sisting only of " 2 vacce, 1 sus, 4 hoggett. et 4 porcell." 

 viz. two cows, one sow, four porkers, and four pigs 5 . 



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. xiv. 12. Farther 

 would be difficult to say. 



3 November 20, in the calendar, Edmund king and martyr, in the ninth 

 century. See also a Sanctus Edmundus in Godwin, among the arch- 

 bishops of Canterbury, in the thirteenth century ; his surname Rich, in 

 1234. 



3 April 3, ibid. Richard, Bishop of Chichester, in the thirteenth cen- 

 tury ; his surname De la Wich, in 1245. 



' Junctorium, perhaps a joint or limb of St. Richard ; but what parti- 

 cular 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. 



4 " 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 fuissi." 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. 



5 (No. 50.) 

 INDENTURA PRIORIS de SELBORNE quorundam tradit. Petro Barnes sacristte 



ibidem ann. Hen. 6. una cum confiss. ejusdem Petri script. 



HEC indentura facta die lune proxime post ffestum natalium DnTanno 



regis Henrici sexti post conquestum anglie v. inter ffratrem Jo- 



hannem Stepe priorem ecclesie beate Marie de Selborne & Petrum Bernes 

 sacrist, ibidem videlicet quod predictus prior deliveravit prefato Petro 

 omnia subscripta In primis XXH ainit xxxi aubes vid. v. sine parura pro 

 quadragesima xxu manicul. Item xxu stole Item viu casule vid. in albe 

 pro quadragesima Item xi dalmatic, vid. i debit. Item xvi cape vid. mi 

 veteres Item unam amittam i albam cum paruris unum manipulum i sto- 

 lam i casulam et duas dalmaticas de dono Johannis Combe capellani de 

 Cicestria pro diebus principalibus Item i amittam i aubam cum paruris 

 i manipulum i stolam i casulam de dono ffratris Thome Halybone cano- 

 nicis Item i amittam i aubam cum paruris i manipulum i stolam i casulam 

 pertinentem ad altare sancte Catherine virginis pro priore Item i amittam 



