The Forty-Seventh General Meeting. 



war mace, which was really its parent, explaining the various steps 

 by which its form was altered. The two pair of maces now 

 exhibited were, he said, good examples of the types prevailing in 

 the reigns of Charles I. and Queen Anne respectively. The 

 borough seals were also exhibited. 



There were also a certain number of arms, swords, pistols, &c, 

 and a box of coins, exhibited by an enthusiastic collector — the late 

 porter at the workhouse — but the feature of the meeting in the way 

 of exhibits was the splendid series of four great folio MSS. books, 

 exhibited by Captain Audley Lovell, which are believed to have 

 belonged to the Abbots of Malmesbury, and to have remained at 

 their grange at Cowfold, now Cole Park, or in the hands of the 

 successive owners of that property from the time of the dissolution 

 to the present day. Some time ago they passed through the hands 

 of Mr. Quaritch for reparation and binding, and it is worth while 

 quoting in full his description of the MSS., written on the fly-leaf 

 of one of the volumes : — 



"These four volumes were intended to be used as a book of lessons 

 (lectionary). The arrangement is peculiar. The object was to make the 

 volumes serve as nearly as possible the convenience of the ministrant in 

 connection with the missal and breviary, and the order is approximately that 

 of the Temporale in those liturgical books. Volume I. contains Maccabees, 

 Ezekiel, the Minor Prophets, Isaiah, and St. Paul's Epistles. Volume II., 

 The Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, and Kuth. Volume III., Jeremiah, Esdras, 

 Acts, Canonical Epistles, Apocalypse, Chronicles, and Daniel. Volume IV. , 

 four books of Kings (i.e,, Samuel and Kings), Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, 

 Ecclesiasticus, Job, Tobit, Judith, and Esther. 



" The Psalter and the Gospels, which are here omitted, must have been 

 written out in two separate volumes, so as to make the Bible Lectionary 

 complete. The above-mentioned four are, however, all that were transcribed 

 for the Prior of Capellen (probably Capelle aux Bois, near Brussels) by 

 Gherajrt Brilis or Bril, although he speaks of them as the whole Bible. 

 Inside the cover of the volume, which should rank as the fourth, a note in his 

 handwriting is pasted down in which he states in Flemish : 



" ' I Gheraerdus Brilus acknowledge and declare myself fully satisfied, dis- 

 charged and well paied by the Prior of Capellen for the whole Bible which I 

 have written for the Church in four volumes, both as to writing, pumicing, 

 ruling and everything which I have done thereto. In acknowledgment of 

 the truth thereof I have written this schedule with my own hands in the year 

 MCCCCVII, 5 day of May.' 



" Underneath it is an English translation made in the last century, correct 

 in most respects, but introducing statements about a ' Convent of the 



