OF SELBOBNE. 
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there is the more reason to suppose tLat 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. 
Item 2 osculator. argent. 
Item 1 osculatorium cum osse digiti auricular. — 
Johannis Baptistae.^ 
Item 1 parvam crucem cum V. reliquiis. 
Item 1 anulum argent, et deauratum St. Edmundi.^ 
" Item 2 osculat. de coper. 
^'Item 1 jundorium St. Ricardi.^ 
Item 1 pecten St. Ricardi." 
The staurunfif 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 ii scabell. de ferro pro cancell Item i plane Item l cistam 
sine cerura Item xilli sonas Item xix taperes ponder xill lb et dimid. 
Item II torches ponder XX lb Item xil lb cere et dimid. Item de candelis 
de cera ponder vi lb Item i lb de frankincense Item I lagenam olei 
Item IX pondera de plumbo 
(Vide de stauro in tergo) et in tergo scribimtiir haec, 
" 11 vacce I sus Iiil hoggett et mi porceU." — G. W. 
^ 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 
b(><\v and buried it, and went and told Jesus." — Matt. xiv. 12. — Farther 
would be difficult to say. — G. W. 
^ 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. 
^ 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. 
^''Pecten inter minlsteria sacra recensetur, quo scil. sacerdotes ac 
