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ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



" Item \. junctorium St. Ricardi.* 



" Item i.pecten St. Ricardi.^ 



The staitrum, 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. 



OLD COINS, 



* April 3, ibid. Richard bishop of Chichester, in the 

 Wich in 1245. 



th century, his surname De la 



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



ligious were not such osteologists as to specify. This barbarous word was not to be 

 found in any dictionary consulted by the author. 



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

 ecclesiam procederent, crines pecterent. E quibus colligitur mcnachos, 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 into their meals. 



J These with the key and hinge, p. 340, are kept in the old manor house, and are shown 

 to visitors by the hospitable inmates. This was the site of Selborne priory, and .the relics 

 have been dug up at various times in the vicinity. 



