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" Item i. parvam crucem cum V. reliquiis. 



" Item i. anulum argent, et deauratum St. Edmundi? 



" Item 2. osculat. de coper. 



"Item i.junctorium St. Ricardi? 



" Item \.pecten St. Ricardit 



The staurum, 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. 



among the Asiatics, who were at that time great traders in 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. iv. 12. Farther would be difficult to say. [G. W.] 



3 November 20, in the calendar, Edmund king and martyr, in the Qth century. 

 See also a Sanctus Edmundus in Godwin, among the archbishops of Canterbury, 

 in the I3th century; his surname Rich, in 1234. [G. W.] 



3 April^, ibid. Richard bishop of Chichester, in the I3th century, his sur- 

 name De la Wich in 1245. 



Junctorium, perhaps a joint or limb of St. Richard; but what particular 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. [G. W.] 



4 " Pec ten inter ministeria sacra recensetur, quo scil. sacerdotes ac clerici, 

 antequam in ecclesiam procederent, crines pecterent. Equibus colligitur monachos, 

 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. [G. W.] 



