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drawn between the prior and sacrist does not appear, nor the 
date when ; only that it happened in the reign of Hen. VI. This 
transaction probably took place when Bernes entered on his 
office; and 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. For the numerous items I shall 
refer the curious reader to the Note, and 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. — Sa. Johannis 
Baptist (B* 
"Item 1. parvarn crucem cum V. reliquiis. 
" Item 1. anulum argent, et deauratum St. Edmundi.f 
*' Item 2. osculat. de coper. 
Item 1. junctorium St. Ricardi.^ 
'^Item 1. pecten St. Ricardi."§ 
The staurum, or live stock, is quite ridiculous, consisting only 
of " 2 vacce, 1 sus, 4 hoggett. et 4 porceil." viz. two cows, one 
sow, four porkers, and four pigs. 
shasshobe Item i securim Item ii scabelL de ferro pro cancell Item i plane Item I cistam sine 
cenira Item xiiii sonas Item xix taperes ponder xiii % et dimid Item ii torches ponder xxft 
Item XII !b cere et dimid. Item de candelis de cera ponder vi 16 Item i Tli de frank et sence 
Item I lagenam olei Item ix pondera de plumbo (Vide de stauro in tergo) et in tergo 
scribuntur haec, " ir vawe i sus iiii hoggetTet iiir porcell." 
* How the convent came by the l)oue 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 body and buried it, and 
went and told Jesus." Matt. iv. 12. — Further would be difficult to say. 
t November 20, in the calendar, Edmund king and martyr, in the 9th century . See also a 
Sanctus Fdmundus in Godwin, among the archbishops of Canterbury, in the 13th century ; his 
surname Rich, in 1234. 
J April .3, ibid. Richard bishop of Chichester, in the 13th century ; his surname De la Wkh, 
in 1245. 
Junctorium, perhaps a joint or limb of St. Richard; but what particular joint the leligious 
were not such osteologists as to specify. This barbarous word was not to be found in any 
dictionarj' consulted hy the author. 
§ ** Pecten inter ministeria sacra receasetur, quo scil. sacerdotes ac clerici, antequam in 
ecclesiam procederent, crines pecterent. E quibus coUigitur utonachus, tunc temparis, non 
omniiio tonsos fuisse." — Du Fresne. 
The author remembers to have seen in great farm houses a Eamily comb chained to a post for 
the use of the hiads when they came into their meals. 
