..... diabole fuge a me ecce crucem domini fugite partes aduerse vicit leo de tribu Juda, radix Dauid alleluya. Et benedictio dei patris . . . . . maneat semper. Amen. Pater noster. Aue." There are twenty-two crosses marked in the aforesaid prayer, and it has prefixed to it one of the woodcuts of the 'Images of Pity' or 'Armes of Christes passyon' (No. vii), which I have had reproduced in facsimile for the Henry Bradshaw Society's Directorium Sacerdotum, or Sarum Pye, vol. ii, in fine. On leaf lxxv, among Suffragia, we find: "In nomine patris, &c. Sancte Michael, esto michi lorica . Sancte Gabriel, esto michi galea . . . . S. Raphael . . . . scutum . S. Uriel..... defensor." &c. (See above, page 393n.) PER .... .... ¶ Oratio contra mortalitatem hominum atque pestem. ER signum Thaua peste epydimie libera nos Jesu. Hic est titulus triumphalis. Jesus Nazarenus rex iudeorum. Christus venit in pace. Deus homo factus est Jesus. Amen. Sancte Deus. Sancte fortis. &c. &c. On leaf lxxxvb: ¶ A deuoute inuocacion and prayer of all the blessyd names of our lorde Jesu Cryst as we fynde them wrytem † in holy scripture. Oratio. OMNIPOTENS dominus. Christus. Messyas. Sother. Emmanuel. Sabaoth Adonay... &c. Homo Usyon'. Saluator. Alpha. & oo2 Fons (et) Origo. Spes Fides charitas. Oza Agnus. Ouis. &c. Leo. Uermis3. . . . . &c. Ego sum qui sum ..... &c. Caput. Otheo tecos. Tetragrammaton3. Ista nomina me protegant."&c. The names of the three Magi, or Kings of Colen, follow, with the Apostles and Evangelists. There are forty-five crosses printed in this prayer, and prefixed to it is a larger Image of Pity'; facsimile No. vi in my Directorium Sacerdotum, 1901. On fo. lxxxvib of the Horae of 1535-36 is an adjuration against thunderstorms : THE RECTORY OF FISHLAKE. F. R. FAIRBANK, M.D., F.S.A. THE Rectory of Fishlake has an interesting history. Fishlake is one of the places where the body of St. Cuthbert rested during its wanderings'; it is therefore natural that the church should be dedicated to him. It is one of the churches which were given by the third Earl Warren to Lewes Priory. In the year 1352 it was given up by the Priory to King Edward III in exchange for the rights and privileges of naturalisation; previously to this Lewes had been considered and treated as an alien house, and had been taken into the King's hands whenever there was war between England and France. This period of its history is dealt with in a former volume of this Journal, and is now only briefly referred to. The church then came into private patronage for a time, and was given to the Prior and Convent of Durham, as an endowment for their College at Oxford, known before the Dissolution of Monasteries as Durham College. Afterwards it was re-founded as Trinity College. It is the period of private patronage, and the gift of it to Durham, which is now specially considered. In the former article, above referred to, Hunter's list of the Rectors of Fishlake" is given in full for convenience; the names in the present list, which occur in it, are marked with an asterisk (*). 1 It has been handed down among the traditions of the Monastery of Durham that Fishlake was one of the places where the body of St. Cuthbert rested. A list of those places was compiled by Prior Wessington in 1416, and placed over the choir door of the Church of Durham. The original compilation, in the handwriting of the Prior, is still preserved in the Durham Treasury, and under the shire of "York," he gives the names of "Pesholme," "Fysshlake," and "Acworth." Also there is a document in the Registry of the Dean and Chapter of Durham which points in the same direction. It is an agreement, dated 22 September, 1438, between the Prior and Convent of Durham and Richard Wryghte, of Fysshlake, yeoman, who thereby became tenant of a portion of ground now forming part of the garden of the Vicarage. 2 Vol. xii, pp. 36-37. 3 South Yorkshire. Deanery of Doncaster, vol. i, p. 192. Malchus, Johannes, Martinianus, Dionysius, Constantinus, Serafion.' Then sing the charm into the left ear, the right ear, and over his head.' And let one who is a maid hang the charm about his head: "Here there stands A spider-man, Says, 'Here's my hack: Get on his back! From earth, like a boat, Ever anew More cool they grew. But, soon and gay, The wild thing's sister To speak has addressed her, She promised and swore This thing shall harm The references to the apostles and evangelists, Berenice (Veronica), &c., interspersed with sundry crosses, curiously disposed, the sacred and mystic names (Emmanuel, &c.) the mention of elves and dwarfs and herbs, &c., the scraps of Greek and Arabic, &c., and the admixture of superstitious acts with Christian holy water, rites, and masses, as seen in the old Leechdoms of this country, are too numerous for our present scope. 1 I infer that the cause of the headache was considered to be the presence of a spider creeping through the ear. My son tells me that in his district in Southern Nigeria, a ju-ju man recently assured him that a sick native had'a tortoise in his back.' To the interpreter this seemed such an obviously probable misfortune that no further information was to be acquired. THE RECTORY OF FISHLAKE. F. R. FAIRBANK, M.D., F.S.A. THE Rectory of Fishlake has an interesting history. Fishlake is one of the places where the body of St. Cuthbert rested during its wanderings'; it is therefore natural that the church should be dedicated to him. It is one of the churches which were given by the third Earl Warren to Lewes Priory. In the year 1352 it was given up by the Priory to King Edward III in exchange for the rights and privileges of naturalisation; previously to this Lewes had been considered and treated as an alien house, and had been taken into the King's hands whenever there was war between England and France. This period of its history is dealt with in a former volume of this Journal, and is now only briefly referred to. The church then came into private patronage for a time, and was given to the Prior and Convent of Durham, as an endowment for their College at Oxford, known before the Dissolution of Monasteries as Durham College. Afterwards it was re-founded as Trinity College. It is the period of private patronage, and the gift of it to Durham, which is now specially considered. In the former article, above referred to, Hunter's list of the Rectors of Fishlake is given in full for convenience; the names in the present list, which occur in it, are marked with an asterisk (*). 1 It has been handed down among the traditions of the Monastery of Durham that Fishlake was one of the places where the body of St. Cuthbert rested. A list of those places was compiled by Prior Wessington in 1416, and placed over the choir door of the Church of Durham. The original compilation, in the handwriting of the Prior, is still preserved in the Durham Treasury, and under the shire of "York," he gives the names of Pesholme," "Fysshlake," and "Acworth." Also there is a document in the Registry of the Dean and Chapter of Durham which points in the same direction. It is an agreement, dated 22 September, 1438, between the Prior and Convent of Durham and Richard Wryghte, of Fysshlake, yeoman, who thereby became tenant of a portion of ground now 66 forming part of the garden of the Vicarage. 2 Vol. xii, pp. 36-37. 3 South Yorkshire. Deanery of Don caster, vol. i, p. 192. RECTORS OF FISHLAKE. *(1242. Hunter under this date gives Tozeramundus de Farenze, instituted 14 kal. Oct. (Sept. 18) on the presentation of the Prior and Convent of Lewes.) This appears in several points incorrect, and to be a mistake for the following: 1247. Joceranus, instituted, "salva pensione," by Archbishop Walter Gray. (Reg. Archbishop W. Gray (Surtees Society), page 102.) In 1249, at the request of the Archbishop-elect of Lyons, Archbishop Walter Gray granted him a license of nonresidence from St. Laurence's Day (Aug. 10), for the next three years. (Ibid., page 260.) Circa 1252. Gerard de Grandison. Instituted about this date by Archbishop Walter Gray. Grandison was a chaplain of the Pope, and Bishop of Verdun, Western France, 1275-78. (Gam's Series Episcoporum, page 652.) In 1268-9 a certain John of Skelton, clerk, appears to have claimed the Rectory on the death of a person, John by name-probably a locum tenens for Grandison, who was doubtless non-resident-who, he alleged, had been Rector. On March 2 of that year Archbishop Giffard, of York, gave sentence that John of Skelton had no title to the Rectory; that it was in the possession of Gerard de Grandison, Papal Chaplain, who had been instituted therein sixteen years and more before by Archbishop Walter Gray; and that the preceding Rector was called Jocerandus. (Reg. Archbishop Giffard (Surtees Society), page 160.) *Circa 1300. John de Warrenne. He resigned in 1327. In 1306, on 4 non. Junii (June 2), Pope Clement V granted to John, son of John, Earl of Warrenne, of the diocese of Hereford, who, having been ordained priest under age, held the churches of Westbiri, Dorkinge, and Fishlake, in the dioceses of Winchester and York, and a canonry and prebend of York, without papal dispensation to retain the same. (Cal. Papal Registers. Papal Letters, ii, page 11.) He had a dispensation for illegitimacy on 10 kal. Jan. (December 23), 1291, from Richard de Swinefield, bishop of Hereford, "cum legitime nobis constet te de soluto fore genitum et soluta, ac paterne incontinencie imitatorem non esse, set conversacionis et vite honeste, ac sufficientis sciencie et etatis legitime, aliasque tibi merita suffragari." (Reg. Joh. Romani, folio 24.) His brother, William de Warenne, clerk, had a similar dispensa |