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 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. 885 umbres febles, ct autre basynet et palet debruses et porus qe sount de jiuUc value/ vj. capels de ncrfs febles, xl. targes febles, 1. launcez ove testes et xxvj. sanz testes, ij. coruals, j, grate pur joutes,' xxvj. alblastes bones et covenables, xxiiij. alblastes debrusez ct poruz, qe sent de nulle value, ij. cofres plcinz de quareles pur alblastes, et ij. boketes et ij. bariles pleinz de quareles pur alblastes, xxxiij. arcz bonez et covenables et ex. arcz feblez et vcus dount plusours sont porus et debruses, iiij.'^'' garbes de sectes febles, j. viel cofre ove testes de quareles, iij. cofres pleinz dcz quareles pur espringales, j. paire polains, xxx. baudrejes febles et porus, xxiiij. arc pur arblastes de corn sauuz tellers, iiij. arcez de vis vels et febles, iij. vis pur les dit arcez tendre febles et porus, ^j. coffyn ov seetes pur j. arc' de Turkye, ij. toneaux dont en lautre uue grant partie de kalktrapes, auxint cheinez et aultrez instrumentz de feer pur engynz, j. pael velx debruse, j. graunt caudronue velx et debruse, j. cofre ove feer lie feble, j. bokct ove feer lie. En le masoxkie ; ix. pikoisez, ij. tribul'. En lescheqeh; le seal du office du cbastelle, j. cofre lie ove feer, ij. rodeles'^ appellez domesday, et diverse fiales '' de briefs et des rodles des Courtez, auxint j. quaier en quel sont cotenuz tons les Clems'* de v. poTrjlez et du lour membres, auxint j. quaier de paper de la corupte William barre " nadgaires Receyvour de Cbastelle suisdit de trois anz. En tesnioignance de queles chosez les ditz mens' Robert et Joban as y cestes cunt niys lour seales. Done au dit Chastiel jour et an suisditz. A few explanatory notes on certain passages in the foregoing documents may be acceptable to the reader. The Indentures commence with a full enumeration of the sacred ornaments, vestments, service books, (kc, in the Capella, being doubtless the cruciform structure adjoining to the Roman pharos, and of which much has been said by those who have sought to establish the remote antiquity of that church, connecting its history with the name of King Lucius or of St. Augustine. It may suffice to remark that such a theory appears to have been chiefly countenanced by the extensive use, in its construction, of bonding courses of tile sometimes regarded as Roman. It is, however, possible that scarcely any portion of this curious building is of earlier date than Norman times. Although this first section of the inventory is remarkably full and detailed, and may serve to show that even in the stronghold of war, sacred things were regarded with singular respect, yet many items in the chapel are described as — 3 The same head-pieces occur in the tenJendis debiles et putr', j. cophinum Indenture between llalph Spigurnal and cum sagittis pro j. area de Turkje." the Executors of Robert de Herle, dated '' RolV, in another Indenture. Pro- 7 July, 31! Edw. III. (134.) " xiij. bably Rolls of tenements and services, baeenett' tinnat' cum umbrer' debil' et Of various- Rolls called Domesday, see aliis baccnett' et palett' fr.ict' et nullius Ellis, Introd. vol. i. p. 2. valoris ; vi. capell' de nerve debil', iVlc." '" Plus, in another Indenture ; in the Tliis early mention of metal, probably Latin documents — flacia or tiiacia bre- iron, tinned, deserves notice. It is vium, namely, files, from the mode of however certain that the process of forming documents into bundles by a tinning metal was known to mediaeval string or narrow thong on which they artificers. were cnfile, or filed. ^ Compare the Indenture 38 Edw, III. Latin, "j. quatern' cont' clam' quinque before cited. — « xxiv. arcus pro balist' do portuum," claims of the Cinque ports, corn' sine tellur', iv. arcus de vyz veteres '•' Willian) Barry, as the name is else- et debiles, iij. vyz pro eisdera arcubus wiiere written.
 * "j. grate pro hastiludiis." Ibid. s QUefs, in another Indenture: in the