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14 List of Conventual Churches still in Use.-Rymer's Fadera. [Jan.

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Bromfield, Salop.

Deerhurst, Gloucester

Nave and West Tower used.

Nave and middle Tower used.

.. Nave and middle Tower used.

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Churches of the Regular Canons of St. Augustine, now Parochial.

St. Mary Overy, Southwark.. Perfect.

St. Bartholomew, London..
....Antient Choir used.

Christchurch, Hants........ Perfect; a very noble Church. Nave early Norman.

Dunstable

Cartmel, Lancashire

Dorchester, Oxon.

Hexham, Northumberland

Bolton, Yorkshire...

Nave used; West front remains.

Perfect.

..Nave and part of Choir used.

Choir, Transept, and middle Tower, used.
Nave used; walls of Choir standing.

Radford, Nottinghamshire .. Nave used; West front with two Towers perfect.

Lanercost, Cumberland..

Nave used. Early lancet work.

St. German's, Cornwall .... Nave with two West Towers used...

Royston, Hertfordshire.. Nearly perfect.

Chirbury, Salop..

Nave, though mutilated, and West Tower, used.

Bodmin, Cornwall.......... Nave used.

Church of the Cistercian Monks, now Parochial.
........Nave and Transept used.

Dore, Herefordshire ..........

Rumsey, Hampshire. Usk, Monmouthshire.. St. Helen's, London

Nunnery Churches, now Parochial.

.This very antient and curious Church nearly perfect. .. Choir and middle Tower used. .Nave used.

Friary Churches, now used.

Austin, now Dutch Church, London. -Scarborough

..Nave used; tracery in windows beautiful.
Choir used.

Churches of Military Orders, now in use,

Temple Church, London.... Perfect.

Welsh Monastic Churches, now used.

Margam, Cist. Abbey Church,
Glamorganshire.
Brecon, St.John's, Benedictine
Priory Church..
Ewenny, Ben. Priory Church,
Glamorganshire

Conway

Ruthin, Church of the Bonhommes

Nave used.

Perfect, or nearly so.

Till of late perfect, and very curious, though rude.
Perfect, but rude.

Nave used.

Cardigan, Priory, Benedictine Choir used.

Bethkelert, Carnarvon, Priory, Nave probably used, but very rude.
Lanbadern,Cardigansh.Priory, Perfect, but rude.

Brecon Collegiate Church,

formerly the Church of the Choir occasionally used, rest in ruins. Early lancet Dominican Friars architecture, and plain.

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E. M. S. has rendered himself a valuable contributor to your excelJent Miscellany, by his curious selection of extracts from the Patent Rolls; and it is much to be regretted that he has not leisure to go through Rymer's Fœdera. It was an idea that occurred to me some time since, at which I was about to make an attempt; but, being aware that a new Edition of that noble work, with many valuable acquisitions, is brought to a state of great forwardness by that indefatigable and Justly admired scholar Dr. Adam

Clarke, under the direction of His Majesty's Commissioners on the Public Records (to whom unbounded credit is due for their exertions in arranging and publishing the records of the realm), I thought it would be advisable, in order to make the thing complete, to wait for its publication; but, as E. M. S. has requested extracts from Rymer, I have niade a feeble attempt to commence that task, though not after his plan. Should this portion be deemed worthy insertion, I propose continuing a regular series from the most remarkable documents in that work, and where I meet with

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A. D. 1101. A. R. 1 Hen. I. By a convention made between King Henry I. and Robert Earl of Flanders, the said King agreed to pay an annual fee of 400 marks of silver to the said Earl, for which he was to provide 500 Knights for the King's service.

A. D. 1141. A. R. Steph. 6. The Empress Matilda, by charter * bearing date at Oxineford the day of St. James the Apostle, created Milo de Gloucester Earl of Hereford, and gave him the Mote and Castle of Hereford, also the third penny of the rents of the borough, and the third penny of the pleas of the county. She likewise gave him the three Manors of Mawerdine, Luggwordine, and Wilton, the

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Hays" of Hereford, and the Forest of Trineley, &c. as a reward for his services against King Stephen, who, "by the mercy of God, and by the aid of Robert Earl of Gloucester my brother, and the aid of the said Milo and other my Barons, was taken in the Battle at Lincoln on the day of the Purification of St. Mary" next before the day aforesaid.

A. D. 1144. A. R. Steph. 9. Pope Lucius rendered void all charters by obtaining which Sons became successors to their Fathers in Churches.

A. D. 1153. A. R. Steph. 18. King Stephen by charter adopted Henry Duke of Normandy, son of the Empress Matilda, as his son and heir; and appointed the said Duke and his beirs to succeed him in the kingdom

of England, on account of which the Duke did homage to the King, and received the fealty of William the King's son, and granted him all the possessions which his Father had before he attained to the dominion of England. The King also promised to consult the Duke in matters of state, and exercise regal justice throughout the realm.

A. D. 1154. A. R. 2 H. II.

Pope Adrian granted leave to King Henry to go into Ireland and subdue that people to the laws, to extend the limits of the Church, restrain the vices and reform the manners of the

habitants, and to augment the Christian religion, &c.; and ordains that they should receive him honourably, and acknowledge him as lord, on condition that an annual pension of one penny for every house be paid to the Blessed Peter and the Holy Church of Rome.

A. D. 1162. A. R. 8 H. II. Pope Alexander wrote to King Henry, to incline him to Peace with the King of France.

A. D. 1169. A. R. 15 H. II. King Henry wrote sharply to the Pope, requesting him to make an end of the quarrels between him and the Archbishop of Canterbury (Thomas à Becket). The King informs him, that he has given the Archbishop liberty to return in peace, and have all the pos sessions which he enjoyed before he left the kingdom. He likewise reminds his Holiness of the honour and advantage he had brought him and his court, and which he hereafter might, should he not be hindered by his perverseness; and demands absolution for all those whom the Archbishop had before excommunicated.

The title Earl is the most ancient in the English Peerage, and its origin has not been clearly traced. It was in use amongst the Saxons, and usually applied to the first of the Royal line. It was afterwards by our Kings given to such as they associated with them in their councils and martial actions. The Conqueror gave it to his Nobles in fee, annexing to it a shire or province, which is now called a County from the word Count or Comte, for which he changed this title (but it was not long retained): the third penny of the pleas of the County was allotted for his maintenance, and, it appears, was considered necessary to constitute an Earldom. The mode of investiture was by girding them with a sword without any formal charter of creation; and this is supposed to be the first by which this dignity was conferred.

+ It does not appear that he availed himself of the liberality of his Holiness before the year 1171.

* Commonly called "Peter Pence," which was a tribute paid at a very early pe riod to the Apostolic See. In the year 725, it was given by Ina, king of the West Saxons, when on bis pilgrimage at Rome. Offa King of the Mercians also gave it 194 through all his dominions. Edward III. prohibited it, as did Henry VIII. by statute, It was renewed by Philip and Mary, but entirely abolished by Elizabeth.

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Mr. URBAN, THE recent robbery of St. Paul's was duly noticed by you at the time it occurred; but I believe my "Londinium" is the only work which contains a description of the articles used at the Altar then stolen (unless any subsequent author has quoted my account of them). I therefore hope you will indulge me by inserting the following extract from Vol. III. p. 144. as I am certain no other individual had access to the Muniment-room than myself, for the above purpose, and consulting the records there preserved. J. P. MALCOLM.

"A silver gilt chalice, with the paten, and another of the same materials, are embossed with a saint bearing the Agnus Dei, and inscribed Bibite ex hoc omnes; est hic enim Calix Novi Testamenti sanguine meo.'

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A pair of patens: Benedixit, fregit, dedit; accipite, comedite; hoc est corpus meum.'

A most superb silver gilt and embossed Prayer-book, adorned with angels, a glory, pillars, &c. inscribed 'Oculi Domini super istos, et aures ejus in preces eorum;' and 'Fiant Orationes pro omnibus hominibus, pro Regibus.'

A Bible, edition 1640, with a silver gilt cover, representing a temple, with Moses and Aaron in the intervals between the columns, and Jacob's dream on one side, with the inscription Verbum Domini manet in æternum.' On the other leaf, the Prophet fed by a raven,

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and, Habent Moysen et Prophetas ;

audiant illos.'

Two large silver gilt plates, on which are engraved the following inscriptions: The Rev. Mr. Charles Smith, fourth son of Sir Thomas Smith, of Hill Hall, in the county of Essex, bart. late prebendary of St. Paul's, and archdeacon of Colchester, gave this plate for the use of the church 1699."

Ex hoc non manducabo donec illud

impleatur in regno Dei. Modicum et jam non videbitis me. Iterum, modicum et videbitis me, quia vado ad Patrem.'

'Qui parcè seminat, parcè et metet. Si voluntas prompta est secundùm id quod habet, accepta est; non secundùm id quod non habet.'

The bottoms of those plates are embossed with representations of the last Supper and the widow bestowing her mite. The rims are adorned with his arms and crest, cherubim, and scrolls.

A very large silver-gilt plate; plain, except that the centre contains an angel, exhibiting a label, on which is engraved Τοιαύταις θυσίαις εὐαρεστεῖται ὁ Θεός. The arms of the Deanery are on the back.

Another very large silver-gilt plate has the Lord's Supper, extremely well done, on it; and a rich border of cornucopiæ and emblematical figures.

There are large tankards of silver-gilt, very much (but clumsily) embossed.

A large silver-gilt plate, with I. H.S. in a glory.

Two enormous tankards, finely embossed, given by the above Rev. Charles Smith, with the inscriptions, Verbum caro factum est; et habitavit in nobis,' 'Si mihi non vultis credere, operibus credite.' C Qui biberit ex aquâ quam ego dabo ei, non sitiet in æternum." Ecce Agnus Dei, qui tollit peccata mundi; hic est qui baptizat in Spiritu Sancto.' These words all refer to the embossings over them.

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This is a curious instrument; and I shall at some future period present your Readers with a translation.

+ Before the time of Henry I. if any ship was lost at sea and any of the cargo cast on shore, such goods were seized as belonging to the King; and the cause assigned was, that by the loss of the ship all property was gone out of the original owner; which was repugnant to all reason and humanity. A similar law was in force in the time of Constantine the Great; but he forbad it by an edict, and with this humane expostulation, directed they should remain to the owners: "Quod enim jus habet fiscus in aliena calamitate ut de re tam luctuosa compendium sectetur?" It is pleasing to reflect how much the distressed condition of these unfortunate persons has been ameliorated by the many salutary laws which have been made since those days, See our vol. LXXX. Part II. p. 655.

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