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Item 2. ofculator. argent. 
Item I. ofculatorium cum oje digiti auricular. — S"' Johannh 
Bapufia\ 
Item 1. parvam criicem cum V. reliqu'iis. 
" Item I. anulmn argent, et deauratum St. Edmundi^, 
" Item 2. ofculat. de coper. 
" Item 1. junior ium St. Rkwdi^ 
. " Item I. peBen St. Ricardi''." 
The jlaurum^ or live ftock, is quite ridiculous, confiding only 
of " 2 vacce, i fus, 4 hoggett. et 4 porcell." viz. two cows, 
one fow, four porkers, and four pigs. 
s How the convent came by the bone of the little finger of Saint John the Baptifl 
does not appear : probably the founder, while in Falefiine, purchafed it among the 
Afiatks, who were at that time great traders in relics. We know from the beft autho- 
rity that as foon as Herod had cruelly beheaded that holy man " his difciples came 
" and took up the body and buried it, and went and told Jefus.^'' Matt. iv. 12. — Far- 
ther would be difficult to fay. 
' November 20, in the calendar, Edmund\i\ng and martyr, in the 9th century. See 
alfo a Sanflus Edmundus in Godwin, among the archbilhops of Canierhurj, in the 1 3th 
century; his furname /Jici, in 1234. 
" April 3, ibid. Rickardh\'^\o'^ of Chichejier, in the 13th century; his furname De la 
VAch, in 1245. 
"Jundorium, perhaps a )oint or litnh of St. Richard •■, but what particular joint the re- 
ligious were not fuch ofteologills as to fpecify. This barbarous word was not to be 
found in any didlionary confulted by the author. 
" " Peilen inter minilleria facra recenfetnr, quo fcil. faccrdotes ac clerici, antequam 
in ecclefiam procederent, crines pefterent. E quibus colligitur monachos, tunc 
" temporis, non omnino tonfos fuiffe." Du Frtfne. 
The author remembers to have feen in great farm houfes a family comb chained to a 
poll for the ufe of the hinds when they came in to their meals. 
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