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The Parish Church of 8. Michael, Mere. 



enti efc unum vetus cum nota sum- 

 ciens [tie} unum breviarium in duobus 

 voluminibus in asseribus ligatum Duo 

 antiphonaria unum novum in quo conti- 

 netur[*'f» margin, " de dono Decani Ric/'jpsal- 



terium et collectariumet capitularium et 

 ymnarium et aliud in quo continetur col- 

 lectarium et capitularium et ymnarium 

 et est ligandum. Item unum gradale 

 bonum et sufficiens sed ligandum et 

 aliud vetus cum tropario parvi pretii 

 unum manuale in quaternis x minus 

 plenarii, et unum psalterium nullius 

 pretii. [ 8 Item i gradale novum de dono 

 Galfridi presbiteri Item i liber vetus- 

 tissimus habens crucem superpositam 

 super quam juratur.] 



" Item ornamenta ejusdem ecclesise, 

 unum [in margin, " de dono Ate Decani''] par 

 vestimentorum sufficiens et ydoneum 

 sine casula et tria vestimenta quorum 

 duo sunt sufficientia cum casulis sericis et 

 tertium par vestimentorum vetus etat- 

 tritum cum[ 9 casula de fuscotincto]simi- 

 liter attrita Item mantilia xv sufficien- 

 tia quorum viii vel plura sunt benedicta 

 et duo calices deaurati quorum unus est 

 ponderis xxiv solidorum et alter [ n xix 



Adam the Dean ! ) new and sufficient, 

 with sufficient notation ; 2 and one old 

 with sufficient notation. One breviary 

 in 2 vols, bound in boards. 3 



" Two antiphonaries 4 of the gift of 

 Dean Richard ; 5 one new in which is 

 contained the psalter, and collects, and 

 epistles, and gospels, and hymns, and 

 another containing collects, epistles, and 

 gospels, and hymns, and is to be bound. 

 And one gradual 6 good and sufficient, 

 but to be bound ; and another old, with 

 a troparium 7 of little value. One 

 manual in four parts. Ten incomplete 

 and one psalter of no value. Also 1 

 new gradual, of the gift of Geoffrey 

 the priest. Also 1 very old book having 

 set upon it a cross upon which oaths 

 are sworn. 



" Also ornaments of the same Church. 

 One set of vestments (of the gift of 

 Adam the Dean), sufficient and service- 

 able without chasuble ; 10 and three 

 vestments of which two are suffi- 

 cient with silk chasubles ; and a 

 third set of vestments old and worn 

 with [dark coloured chasuble] like- 

 wise worn. 



1 Adam of Ilchester was Dean of Sarum, A.D. 1215—1220. The name is 

 distinctly "Ate" in the MS. 



2 Notes of music. 

 3 i.e., of wood. 



4 Antiphonary, an office book of the Latin Church, containing the antiphons 

 and other portions of the service which were sung antiphonally. 



5 Richard Poore was Dean of Sarum, A.D. 1198. 

 6 Gradual, a book containing the psalms, &c, to be sung from the step of the 

 lesser desk after the epistle. 



7 Troparium, a book of alternate responses in singing mass. 

 8 Added in a later hand. 

 9 These words erased by a later hand. 

 10 The vestments of a priest for mass are the amice, alb, girdle, stole, maniple, 

 and chasuble (this latter is called generally " the vestment "), and in 

 inventories and constitutions of bishops, two pairs of vestments mean two sets 

 of chasubles, amices, alb, &c, i.e., all the articles mentioned above ; also 

 occasionally it included the vestments for deacon and sub-deacon at high mass. 



11 Later insertion. 



