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 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. 153 Imic mcmorando in inodum cyrographi confccto sigillum dicti Keginaldi ct sigillum V. cclcrarii altcriuitim sunt appcnsa. Testibus supradictis. Memorandum, that Reginald dc Gynges hath received from the prior and convent of the IToly Trinity, London, their houses at Warlee by valuation ; to wit, the hall with the bed- chamber, at the price of five marks ; the chapel at thirty shil- lings ; the bouerie at twenty shillings ; the bake-house at half a mark ; the gate-house, with the solar, at twenty shillings ; the better grange at five marks; the second at twenty shil- lings ; at which sum of money the said buildings were ap- praised on the day on which he received them; there being ])resent E[ustace] the prior, brothers Wilham Aygnel and Philip, canons, the same Reginald de Gynges, Reginald de Fonte, and others as above. Item, he received in the chapel a super-altar of marble, and a figm-e of the Blessed Mary, Avith a tabernacle ; item, two great measures ; a bushel or batun ; a plough, with yokes, and its appurtenances; a coulter, with a share; two iron forks, with an old cart ; two tables, with trivets ; a settle, and chau', and ladder ; all which shall be returned to the same [prior and convent], or their price, after the decease of the same Reginald. In testimony whereof, &c. This memorandum supplies a description of the plan of an ordinary manor-house of the thirteenth century, consisting of a hall or principal chamber, with a sleeping room annexed, and a chapel. The latter appendage was due probably to the cir- cumstance of the house having been occupied as a place of resort by the priors of the Holy Trinity. The gate-house, with its solar or upper chamber, would be the entrance to the enclosure, by which the hall and its offices, as the byre, bake- house, and two barns, were surrounded. In these and later times it was customary to remove the scanty furniture of a mansion when the owner changed his abode; thus the two tables, the settle, and chair, may be regarded as the only fix- tures appurtenant to the hall. The furnitm-e of the chapel is limited ; a super-altar of mar- ble, and a figm-c of the Virgin, wath a tabernacle. The former adds another illustration to the many already adduced by Mr. Way of the customary use of a tablet or portable substi- tute for the fixed altar'*. t. Hudson turner. '' Aicliicological .Journal, vol. iv. pp. 239 — 218.