page 113 note * The name of the spot where these objects were found is Plush Down, not Phish Down, as printed on page 112. The error was not noticed until after the sheet had gone to press.

page 114 note * See Archæologia, xv. 402. For a notice of these Instrumenta Ecclesiastica, referring to a large number of examples, see Journ. Arch. Assoc. xix. 81.

page 114 note † Proceedings, 2 S. iv. 284.

page 117 note * In England these vessels were so generally destroyed, at the Reformation that very few authentic examples remain. For the form of the chrismatory with three divisions in the fifteenth century, see Strutt, Horda Angelcynnan, vol. ii. pi. 58, taken from an illumination in John Kous's Life of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, where a priest is administering extreme unction to the earl; Mr. Bloxam tells me that about forty years ago a metal chrismatory, also with the three divisions, considered to be of fourteenth century work, was found upon. the wall-plate of St. Martin's church, Canterbury. Those who found it took it for an old inkstand. From a somewhat scarce work he gives me also the following quotation :–

“Quand il faut donner l'extrème onction à un malade, pour cet effet il faut avoir une boëte de fer blanc, quasi de la façon qu'on en fait pour les pelerins, qui y mettent leur lettres d'attestation, etc. Et y faire 3 separations par le dedans, pour y niettro 3 phioles de yerrez carrez, afin d'y mettre les sainctes Huiles dedans.”—Le parfaict Ecclesiastique, ou Diverses Instructions sur toutes les fonctiona clericales. Paris, 1866.

page 118 note * See as to this a canon of a council of Meaux, given by Burchard, iv. 75, and Ivo, pars la, cap. 268. And for an account of the hallowing of the holy oils, see Dr. Rock, Church of our Fathers, vol. iii.

page 118 note † Silver parcel-gilt “for oil and cream ” (chrism) at Long Melford, Suffolk, 1529. Lead, brass, pewter, and latten occur in Peacock's English Church Furniture, pp. 38, 59, 246, 147. Tin at St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, in 1500. A chrismatory of leather (probably cuir bouitti) occurs in the inventory of church goods at Ely, taken at the dissolution of that monastery.

page 118 note ‡ Such as were used in France in the seventeenth century. (See previous note.)

page 121 note * This legend appears on a medallion of Queen. Mary (Tudor), issued, it has been said, on the temporary reconciliation of the English nation with the Church of Rome.

page 121 note † “Cowchid werke” would seem to be either that kind of embroidery in which the pattern is formed by sewing down a series of braids or threads, or else the same thing as “cut work,” known at the present day by the French term applique, where embroidered pieces of another material are laid down on the fabric to be ornamented. Moghteten is for moth-eaten. M0W3TE clothwyrme, Prompt. Pare.; and so also Wycliffe, St. Luke xii. 33.

page 121 note † An elephant appears on the City seal. See Proceedings, 2 S. iv. 156.

page 121 note § Sic procorio.

page 121 note ‖ A pewter inkstand. From the Gr. ἒγ b.kappavαυστονcomes Encavstum or Incaustum (sometimes Incaustrvm), having in Low Latin the meaning of Ink : whence the Ital. Inchiostro, Fr. Encre, and the English word.

page 122 note * TRUSSYNGE COFUB. Clitella, Prompt. Parv. Clitellcs- in classical Latin denotes a pack-saddle. The word is here used for a valise carried on a sumptermule's back. To truss is to pack. See Privy Purse Exp. Eliz. of York, under “Trussing-bed ” in Index.

page 122 note † “Item in two trussyng cofers and in two gardevyances, i salt saler of sylver and gilt,” &c. (28 H. VI.) Kal. and Inv. of Exchqr. ii. 219. “Full mony instrument of slawghter was in his gardevyance.”—Dunb. ap. Jamieson, Scott. Diet. “A bandit kist like a gardeviant.” jewels, &c. of King James III., p. 7, in Inventories of Royal Wardrobe. Edinb. 1815.

page 123 note ‡ Rock crystal.

page 123 note § The egg of the ostrich was often called a griffin's or grype's egg.

page 123 note ‖ The prynte. Here we have a mediaeval name for the small round plate at the bottom of the mazer-bowl, usually of silver, frequently engraved or enameled with a device.

page 123 note ¶ A vise is a screw. Fr. vis. The“vyceof a cuppe” occurs in Palsgrave. See Prompt. Parv. sub voce VYCE.

page 123 note * Mensal Knyfe, or borde knyfe. Mensalis, Prompt. Parv. See John Russell's Boke of Nurture, p. 138, 1. 333 (E. E. T. S. edition) where the “table knyfe” is used by the carver to lift the cut trencher of bread and lay it down before the lord whom he serves.

page 123 note † Suns, probably engraved on the cup.

page 123 note ‡ A nut (or drinking-vessel in that form) made of a wood called Dudgeon. The spelling of the word in the text agrees with the reading of the Winton MS. of Prompt. Parv, which has “DOION', dogena” for “DOBON', degener”: see Mr. Way's note sub voce RONNYN. What Dudgeon exactly was seems hardly to have been ascertained. Nares says that it is the root of box. For a notice of a dagger with a black wooden handle, supposed to be a “dudgeon dagger,” see Proceedings, 2 S. iv. 35.

page 124 note * The sumap or serrenappe seems to have been placed underneath one of the long towels such as are mentioned in this Inventory, and spread all down the table after meat, for the convenience of wiping the guests' hands after washing. The “making” the surnap was a matter of great form, as to which consult the Early English Text Society's Collection on Manners and Meals quoted above, at the following passages, viz., Russell, Boke of Nurture, p. 132, 208; Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Kervynge, p. 269; Boke of Curtasye, p. 321. The tradition of the surnap is perhaps hardly extinct yet. The writer remembers not many years ago observing at the end of dinner in a certain College Hall at Cambridge, how, along with the bason and ewer with roseVater, a long neatly-plaited cloth was placed on the upper end of the table, and was then thrown some way down the table by a servant with a jerk of the hand, the plaits unfolding with the motion.

page 124 note † A bell.