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with, considering his opportunities of information. 

 We are indebted to Mr. W. H. Hart, F.S.A., for 

 pointing out that the foundation by Roger Orger 

 (p. 126) of a daily mass in Milton Parish Church 

 upon an endowment of two messuages, two oxgangs 

 and a half of land, &c., was really a foundation in 

 the parish church of Melton Mowbray; but in this 

 Pocock did but follow Hasted, and it was only by 

 recently turning to the inquisitions of February 20, 

 11 Edward II., No. 101, that the error was detected, as 

 the name of the county is suppressed, while Milton-next- 

 Gravesend used to be written Melton. Again, it might 

 perhaps here be added that the reference to the first 

 meeting-house for Protestant Dissenters, at p. 93 of his 

 History, is inadequate, since on the 6th of July, 1702 

 (1 Queen Anne), a meeting-house for Baptists is cer- 

 tified in the " Bishop's Registry" at the instance of nine 

 of the inhabitants, whose names are recorded. 



But the discovery, which would most have pleased 

 our historian, was denied him, viz., the will and the 

 executorship accounts of his great fellow-townsman 

 of 1280, Richard of Gravesend, who then ascended the 

 episcopal throne of St. Paul's, upon which he sat for 

 twenty-three years, until 1303 ; great, not for his 

 occupation of that important see, but for his personal 

 character and attributes. Especially would he have 

 yearned in sympathy at the Prelate's taste for books. 

 His Holy Bible, laboriously and painfully written out 

 in thirteen volumes, and even at the then currency 

 valued at forty-one pounds sterling, he appropriately 

 bequeathed to his nephew Stephen ; and his other 

 works, no less than fifty-five volumes MSS., were 

 valued in the same early currency, according to the 



