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Original Documents.

THE WILL OF LUKE DE PONYNGES, LORD ST. JOHN, OF BASYNG, FROM A COPY IN THE REGISTER OF WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM.

COMMUNICATED BY THE REV. WILLIAM H. GUNNER, M.A.

In the inventories of ornaments and reliques belonging to the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, in Dugdale's History of that Church, is the following entry:—

"Item caput S. Gamalielis, auripictum, cum lapidibus circa humeros insertis."^[1]

The donor of this curious relique was Luke de Ponynges, Lord St. John of Basing, as appears by his will, in the register of William of Wykeham, in the registry at Winchester, part III., p. 143, as follows:—

In Dei nomine amen: Ego Lucas de Ponynges dominus de Sancto Joanne, sanæ mentis et bonæ memoriæ, quinto die Junii, Anno Domini, 1376, condo Testamentum meum in hunc modum: In primis, lego animam meam Deo et beatæ Mariæ virgini et omnibus Sanctis, et corpus meum ad sepeliendum in ecclesia conventuali Prioratus de Boxgrave Cicestrensis Diocesis; in sinistra parte ejusdem ecclesiæ ubi sepulchrum Domini die pascensi fieri solet. Item, lego ad fabricam ecclesiæ prædicti Prioratus xl^li argenti ad dispositionem executorum meorum. Item, lego summo altari dictæ ecclesiæ unum vestimentum rubeum; videlicet unum album, amiciam, casulam, cum stola et fanone, et cum duobus pannis sericis viridis coloris. Item, lego Isabellæ, uxori meæ c^li argenti sub tali conditione, quod nihil plus petat de omnibus bonis meis mobilibus ratione cujuscunque juris seu consuetudinis; non impediat, nec impediri procuret, executores meos in executione libera testamenti mei. Item, lego Thomæ filio meo centum marcas sub conditione prædicta, ac etiam omnes armaturas meas. Item, lego Lucæ filio dicti Thomæ xx. marcas. Item, lego Ricardo Olmestede clerico x. marcas. Item, lego Feliciæ Olmestede, x. marcas. Item, lego Aliciæ Bride v. marcas. Item, lego Olmero [sic] Eyot v. li. Item, lego Henrico Hatfield v. marc. Item, lego Lucæ filio dicti Henrici xx. s. Item, lego Johanni Salle v^li. Item, lego Johanni Dollyng xl^s. Item, lego Willelmo Davy xx^s. Item, lego Petro Holond xx^s. Item, lego Rogero Stoloud vi^s viii'i. Item, lego Thomæ Stikelyng vi^ viii'^. Item, lego Willelmo Bakere vi^. viii^d. Item, lego Johanni Gladewyne vi^s. viii^d. Item, lego Roberto West vi^s viii^d. Item, lego Willemo de Coquina vi^s. viii^d. Item, lego Johanni filio uxoris Henrici Hatfield iii^s. iiii^d. Item, lego capud Sancti Gamalielis ecclesiæ Cathedrali Sancti Pauli, London. Item, lego ad ornamentum dicti capitis xx^li ad dispositionem executorum meorum. Item, lego Johanni Smyth xx^s. Item, lego Thomæ Pycot

1. Dugdale's Hist. of St. Paul's, orig. edit. p. 236.