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 22O Mr. Aftle's Obfervafhns on Stone Pillars, the foote of the crofle Mary and John fett with xllj fmall perles, and uppon the crofle a crucefix fett with twoo ballaces, twoo fa- xx phires, and iiijxvij fmale perles, weying Ixxmj oz. Item, one crofle of golde called Jerl m. garniflied with iiij greate ballaces, and one garnett {landing in colletts of golde, having uppon either fyde the crucefix a theefe hanging enameled white, the foote of the crofle being of filver gilte, garnimed with certeyne fmale images of golde, garnimed with ftone and perle. The crucefix, the twoo theeves with their crofles and garniming, with ftone and perle poiz Ixxv ounces. The fote being filver and gilte, and parte golde, weying CClxxxiuj oz. all poiz 359 oz." BOOKS. The covers of bookes were richly ornamented with crucifixes, jewels, and precious ftones. Many instances might be given, a few may be fufficient. The famous Textus Sanclii Cuthberti, which was written in the feventh century, and was formerly kept at Dur- ham, which is now preferved in the Cottonian Library, Nero D. IV. was adorned in the Saxon times by Bilfrith, a monk of Dur- ham, with a filver cover gilt and precious ftones. Simeon Dunel- menfis, or Turgot as he is frequently called, tells us that the cover of this fine MS. was ornamented formfecls Gemmis et Auro. " A booke of Gofpelles garnimed and wrought with antique worke of filver and gilte with an image of the crucefix with Mary and John, poiz together CCCxxij oz. In the Secret Jewel Houfe in the Tower. A booke of golde ena- meled, clafped with a rubie, having on th'one fyde a crofle of dya- mounts, and vj other dyamounts, and th'other Jfyde a flower de luce of dyamounts, and iiij rubies with a pendaunte of white fa- phyrcs and the armes of England. Which booke is garnilhed with 7 fmall