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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.