4 Antiquity and Early 



John (1199-1216), and most plausibly to the first 

 of these, a view supported by several experts to 

 whom it has been submitted.^ There is a copy of 

 the convention in the old Register of St. Martin's- 

 le-Grand, a beautifully transcribed volume, in a 

 handwriting of the period about 1400 A.D., and a 

 second copy in a long roll of Indulgences, which 

 appears to have escaped previous notice. This 

 last is in a handwriting of about the reign of 

 Edward 1 11.^ 



By the courtesy of the Dean of Westminster 

 we have been permitted to take a photograph of 

 the convention, and a facsimile is appended. The 

 endorsement on the reverse side, " Lra de Ghild," 

 etc., it will be noticed, is of a later period than the 

 handwriting of the text, and belongs probably to 

 the reign of Edward L ; the other endorsement, 



^ In the same bundle of documents — No. 2 of those re- 

 lating to St. Martin's-le-Grand — there is an Indulgence by 

 William, Bishop of Norwich, in a precisely similar handwriting 

 to that of the convention, also without date, but probably 

 written between 1146 and 11 74, when WiUiam Turbus was 

 Bishop of Norwich. Moreover, the late Mr. Burtt, who 

 arranged these archives, has described this parcel as extending 

 from Henry II. to Henry VIIL, the former date doubtless 

 referring to the grant to the Saddlers' Company and the 

 Indulgence by William, Bishop of Norwich. 



^ The copy in the Register is headed by the following 

 rubric : " Nota per hanc literam sequentem quae incipit 

 Conventus Sancti Martini London quae est litera frater- 

 nitatis Sellariorum London quod dicta ecclesia erat diu 

 sedificata et dotata ante adventum Conquestoris in Anglia ut 

 ibi patet, quae est contra assertiones Johannis Carpenter' et 

 sequacium suorum." 



