Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850

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notes

1

"La précieuse géographie d'Alfred, roi d'Angleterre."—Le Comte J. Gräberg. La Scandinavie Vengée, p. 36.

2

Cotton MSS., Tiberius, b. i. fol. 12b.

3

Transl. of Orosius, p. 8.

4

Inaugural Lecture, p. 72.

5

Vita Karoli Magni, ann. 789.

6

"Sunt et alii Slavorum populi qui inter Albiam et Oderam degunt, sicut Heveldi, qui juxta Haliolam fluvium, et Doxani, Liubuzzi, Wilini, et Stoderani, cum multis aliis."—Hist. Eccl. p. 47, 48.

7

Annales Sangall. Brev., ann. 789.—Ann. Lauresham, &c.

8

Vit. Kar. Mag. and Annal. Francor., ann. 822.

9

Annal. Petav., ann 789.

10

Chron. Slavorum, l. i, c. 2.

11

Brodekine. A richly-gilt stuff.

12

It appears from an entry in the preceding year, that this man was first sent to "Sentt Thomas Spittell in Soughwork," when it was discovered that he was afflicted with the leprosy, or some cutaneous disease, and immediately removed to the Lazar-house at Mile End, it being strictly forbidden that such cases should remain in the hospitals. These lazar-houses were built away from the town; one was the Lock Hospital, in Southwark; one at Kingsland, another at Knightsbridge, and that mentioned above between Mile End and Stratford. The laws were very strict in the expulsion of leprous people from the city; and if they attempted to force their way into the hospitals, they were bound fast to horses, and dragged away to the lazar-houses.

13

The baldricke was the garter and buckle by means of which the clapper was suspended inside the bell.

14

Harnes, or armour, which perhaps hung over some of the monuments in the church.

15

It was about this time that clocks began to be generally used in churches (although of a much earlier invention); and in subsequent years we have several items of expenditure connected with that above mentioned. In 1595:—

"Paid for a small bell for the watche iiij

"Paid to the smith for Iron worke to it xx

"Paid for a waight for the Clocke wayinge
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and for a ringe of Iron v

."