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II. Of the Pusey Horn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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The Society having been indulged with a drawing of the Pusey Horn, now in the possession of Mrs. Jane Allen, of Pusey, Berks, sister of the late Pusey, esquire, and representative of the family, have caused it to be engraved in Plate II. The first of our writers who mentions this horn, and the grant made by it, is Mr. Camden, who, speaking of the manor of Pusey, says, “the family of Pusey still hold “it by a horn, anciently given to their ancestors by Canute, the “Danish king.” Dr. Hickes informs us, that both the horn and manor were in his time possessed by Charles Pusey, who had recovered it in Chancery before Lord Chancellor Jefferies; the horn itself being produced in court, and with universal admiration received, admitted, and proved to be the identical horn, by which, as by a charter, Canute had conveyed the manor of Pusey 700 years before. The Doctor describes the horn as being that of an ox, of a middling size, having in the middle a ring of silver gilt, and neatly mounted on two hounds feet, which support the whole.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1775

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page 13 note [a] Brit. Berks, p. 203. ed. 1607.

page 13 note [b] Thes. Praef. p. xxv. Cornu bovinum est, mediocris magnitudinis, quod in medio habet cingulum argenteum, auro oblitum, duobus pedibus canis venatici, quibus suppositum sustentatur, affabre commissum, &c.