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there is the more reason to suppose that to be the case, 

 because the list consists of vestments and implements, and 

 relics, such as belonged to the church of the Priory, and fell 

 under the care of the sacrist. I shall just mention the 

 relics, although they are not all specified ; and the state of 

 the live stock of the monastery at that juncture. 



(f Item 2 oscillator, argent. 



" Item I osculatorium cum osse digiti auricular. S 11 . 

 Johannis Baptistae. 1 



t( Item 1 parvam crucem cum V. reliqidis. 



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



" Item 2 osculat. de coper. 



" Item 1 junctorium St. Ricardi. 3 



" Item 1 pecten St. Ricardi." 4 



The staurum, or live stock, is quite ridiculous, consisting 

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

 cows, one sow, four porkers, and four pigs. 



Instrumenta pro Sandyng Item I ledbynff Item I shasshobe Item I 

 securim Item n scabell. de ferro pro cancell Item I plane Item I cistain 

 sine cerura Item xnii sonas Item xix taperes ponder xni ft et dimid. 

 Item II torches ponder xx ft Item xn ft cere et dimid. Item de candelis 

 de cera ponder vi ft Item I ft de frankincense Item I lagenam olei 

 Item IX pondera de plumbo 



(Vide de stauro in tergo) et in tergo scribnntnr haec, 

 " n vacce i sus mi hoggett et im porcell." G. W. 



1 How the convent came by the bone of the little finger of St. John 

 the Baptist does not appear ; probably the founder, while in Palestine, 

 purchased it 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 

 bt>(\v and buried it, and went and told Jesus." Matt. xiv. 12. Farther 

 would be difficult to say. G. W. 



2 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. -G. W. 



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

 century ; 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. G. W. 



4 " Pecten inter ministeria sacra recensetur, quo scil. sacerdotes ao 



