kostlikeit uberschwenklich geziert, und füerten jn in iren kor. Do horten wir das aller kostlichst korgesang, das alls gesatzt was, das lieblich zu horen was.

V. PAINTINGS IN THE ABBEY.

(From a Cartulary of Westminster in the possession of Sir Charles G. Young, Garter King at Arms.)

Sequitur de renovatoribus et benefactoribus capellarum in circuitu infra ecclesiam monasterii Westm'.

In primis Rogerus Kyrton et Johannes Savery fecerunt et dedicaverunt altare Sanctorum Michaelis Archangeli Sancti Martini et Omnium Sanctorum. Item idem Rogerus cum aliis fieri fecerunt clausuram ejusdem capelle pro x. fi.

Willielmus Souwell fecit proximam capellam Sancti Johannis Evangeliste. Et Domina Maria de Sancto Paulo dedit ymaginem alabastri Beate Virginis Marie ibidem precium cum pictura volte superius ut patet ibidem.

Ricardus Merston prior fieri fecit crucifixum cum pertinentiis in claustro juxta sedem Magistri Noviciorum pro xx. marcis. Et idem Prior fieri fecit Altare Sancti Blasii cum pertinentiis pro c. marcis.

Frater Robertus Herford fieri fecit picturam Natalis Domini in claustro juxta hostium hostillarii versus cameram Prioris pro xx.

marcis.

Frater Johannes Northampton fieri fecit picturam de judicio in fronte domus Capitularis pro xj. marcis. Item fieri fecit picturam Apocalipsis pro iiij. fi x. s. in Capitulo nondum completo. Et similiter Kalendare (xxx. s.) in claustro. cum aliis picturis (xx. s.) ibidem ad hostium ecclesie pro vij. fi.

Frater Ricardus Circestr' fieri fecit picturam tabule altaris (xl. s.) Sancte Helene et ymaginis Beate Marie pro iiij. marcis.

Frater Johannes Morton fieri fecit tabulam (c. s.) Altaris Beate Katerine cum pictura (x. fi.) ejusdem et ij ymaginibus xv. †i. summa. Item fecit fieri ymaginem Crucifixi et beatorum Martyrum Thome et Edmundi cum pictura superioris tabule ibidem.

Johannes Redyng senior fieri fecit clausuram Altaris Sancte Trinitatis pro xx. ti.

Frater Thomas Peverell' cum aliis fieri fecit clausuram Altaris Sancti Thome Martyris antedicti.

Frater Johannes Myrymouth reclusus fieri fecit picturam Altaris Sancti Benedicti pro xxvj. s. viij. đ.

Frater Willielmus Bromeley fieri fecit picturam frontis Altaris Sancti Nicholai pro xl. s. ac eciam picturam ymaginum Sancti Nicholai et Sancti Laurencii pro.

Willielmus de Reliquiis fieri fecit ymaginem Beate Marie Magdalene ad pedes tumbe Cardinalis pro x. s. Et Lodowicus de Britailx de novo fecit eandem ymaginem depingi tempore Regis E. iiij.

Frater Johannes Feryng dedit pro sustentacione unius lampadis ibidem imperpetuum x. marcas liberatas fratri Petro Combe qui de dictis denariis fecit novum redditum ex opposito Crucem de Caryng, valoris 1. s.

Jacobus Palmer clericus domini Regis E. iij fieri fecit clausuram et totum apparatum Altaris Sancti Andree cum pictura ejusdem ubi et ipse postea sepultus est. Item Edwardus Kyrton Abbas ibidem tumulatus postea de novo renovavit eandem capellam.

Frater Johannes London' postea reclusus, et frater J. Northampton fieri fecerunt picturam superioris tabule Altaris Sancti Johannis Baptiste pro.

Frater Johannes Sutton fieri fecit picturam dedicationis ecclesie Westm' cum censuris scriptis ad Altare Sancti Pauli. Et similiter picturam ad tabulam Regis Sancti Seberti pro.

VI. RELICS LENT TO THE COUNTESS OF GLOUCESTER.

A religiousse gent e ses chers amis en dieu le Priour e le Covent de Weimouster Maud de Clare Contesse de Gloucestre et de Hertford saluz en Jehsu Crist. Sires nous vous prions trescherement que vous ne voillez avoir a mal la longe demeore nostre cher e bien ame en dieu Daunz Henri vostre freire en nostre compaignie, einz le eut voillez tenir a excuse, gar sachez sires que del suffrer a partir de nous od la relique dount vous nous avez ese un long temps, vostre chere merci, avant que nostre estat fust autre qil nest uncore, nous serreit un graunt descoufort, la quel chose esperrons que entre vous nel desirez point. Sires nostre Seignour vous eit en sa garde. Escrite a Kaerlion le viij. jour de Juyl.

(Circa A.D. 1290-1300.)

VII.

In one of the account-books, dated 1485, are references to the comforting pills,' and 'the ointment for the loins,' and the 'hippo

cras' for the use of the Abbot; also to the tiling of the anchorite's 'house.'

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APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI.

I. SPEECH OF FECKENHAM, ABBOT OF WESTMINSTER. (Rawlinson MS. Miscell., 68.)

Upon Friday, the 10th of February (1555), was read the second time a Bill concerning Sanctuaries, declaring how, by laws already passed in the thirty-second year of Henry VIII., there remained, indeed, no Sanctuaries other than churches, churchyards, &c., and those, as in old time, it hath been used to serve in such cases as they did serve but for forty years, and the offenders afterwards to abjure. But for that such abjuration could neither be made into the parts beyond the seas, the same being forbidden by the statute, nor into any Sanctuary within the realm, where none was indeed, though at Westminster by usurpation and permission it had of late been used, therefore the Bill prayed abolishment of all Sanctuaries other than churches, churchyards, &c., and from those to remove the old manner of abjuring beyond the seas. It was agreed, forasmuch as it might be that the Abbot of Westminster had some new grant from the Prince, since the making of that statute by King Henry VIII., whereby his Sanctuary might have been created anew, that therefore the Speaker should, by his Serjeant-at-Arms, give warning to the Abbot to come before the House upon the Saturday next, being the 11th of February, with his counsel learned in the law, to show by what warrant he held Sanctuary at Westminster.

According hereunto, the said Saturday following the Abbot, accompanied with no counsel learned, but only with one monk attending on him, bearing two old muniments: the one whereof was the Charter of Sanctuary granted to the House of Westminster by King Edward the Saint; the other a confirmation of the same Charter, with a censure, by curse, upon the breaches thereof, made at request of the said King Edward by the Pope John, at a General Synod by him assembled for that purpose. Being received in the House, thus he began:—

Mr. Speaker, and you the rest members of this Honourable Court: Yesternight, between the hours of six and seven, I was advertised of

two things-the one, that there is a Bill here exhibited among you for abolishment of Sanctuary at Westminster; the other (for the which I most humbly thank you all), that it hath pleased you to have such favourable consideration of me, as to grant me free access at this time into this place, with my counsel, to show what I could or had to say for maintenance and continuance of Sanctuary there. But for that the time of warning was so short, and this day being the last day of the term, the learned in the laws cannot so conveniently spare me leisure from their affairs: therefore could I myself neither sufficiently prepare to say in that behalf, nor have that aid of some counsellors as both this cause requireth and your gentleness hath granted. Wherefore it may please your Worships, that with your like favour I may obtain, that if, in my imperfect oration, anything shall be uttered otherwise than is profitable for my cause, no advantage be taken thereof; and also that I may have a further day granted, when I may use the help of counsel learned in the law, to inform you of such right and title as I have to show for the Sanctuary of Westminster.

But to the matter.

I nothing doubt your purpose not to take away all Sanctuaries, all places of refuge, from poor offenders; for that were too much injurious, considering that Sanctuaries and places of refuge are, and have always been, used and inviolably maintained, not only in every country throughout Christendom, but also among the Jews, yea, and among the Turks and infidels. All princes, all lawmakers-Solon in Athens, Lycurgus in Lacedæmon-all have had loca refugi, places of succour and safeguard for such as have transgressed laws and deserved corporal pains. Sith, therefore, ye mean not (as I doubt not) to destroy all Sanctuaries, and if your purpose be to maintain any, or if any be worthy to be continued, Westminster of all others is most worthy-and that for four causes.

The first is, the antiquity and continuance of Sanctuary there. The second is, the dignity of the person by whom it was ordained and preserved.

The third, the worthiness of the place itself.

The fourth, the profit and commodity that you have received thereby.

It

And first for the antiquity of Sanctuary at Westminster. may please you to have consideration, how it is no less than 1,400 years since Sanctuary was there first ordained; for Lucius, the first Christian king of this realm (who, about 100 years after Christ, received the Christian faith from the holy Pope of Rome

and martyr Eleutherius, by the ministry of the holy monk Fagan, whom some call Fugan and Damian), immediately after that he was by the said holy monk baptized and instructed in the true profession of Christ's religion, did destroy the Temple that then stood here at Westminster dedicated to the idol Apollo, and in place thereof erected a new Temple to the honour of the True God, our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of St. Peter, from whose sanctity he received the benefit of Christianity; and then he, by his free grant, ordained Sanctuary. For I must confess, that as the temporal power hath the administration of death and temporal punishment, so hath it also the only authority of dispensation and pardon. He, I say, made proclamation that whoever would resort thither, and worship the True God, and embrace the true faith (which he had then received), should enjoy free pardon and immunity for all offences by them committed. Wherein this good Christian king seemeth right wisely to have followed the policy of Darius King of Assyria, who, purposing to have the memory of his father Bessus honoured, did erect an image to the likeness of his father, and made publication throughout his dominions, that whoever would come and honour that image of his father Bessus should have free pardon of all offences, with immunity of their lives and goods. So even as Darius, this heathen king, by Sanctuary sought to allure the people to idolatrous worship of his father, the same means used this good Christian king to allure his people to the true worship of the True God. And that freedom of Sanctuary, by him ordained as a mean to win men to faith, so long endured inviolate, as faith itself endured, and continued unforsaken, even unto the time of the ungodly King Vortigern, who brought in the wicked Saxons, who, having once prevailed, and gotten the rule and possession of this realm into their hands, destroyed both the profession of the Christian faith and the freedom of Sanctuary-the mean to allure to faith. So remained faith exiled and Sanctuary dissolved, all the time of their ungodly government, till the time of holy St. Gregory, Pope of Rome, who, delighted with the angelic faces of English children that he saw stand to be sold at Rome, sent hither the holy monks St. Augustine, Melitus, and others, to preach again the true faith of Christ in this realm. These, by their teaching and godliness of life, converted to the true Christian religion Seba, King of the East Saxons. He was by them baptized, and by them having received the Christian faith, he commanded all his people to embrace the same; and therewithal restored the first mean of the first good King Lucius to induce to faith-the free Sanctuary at Westminster.