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this is now blocked up within, but it is very distinct on the outside towards the vestry; it belongs to the same class as the openings so frequently found by the side of the chancel-arch, formerly called squints, and of late named Hagioscopes.

Extracts from the Bursar's Rolls of Merton College.

[1277.] Item (computat lib.) Domino Roberto Capellano xiiij.s ix.d pro dedicacione summi altaris. Item lib. eidem viij.d pro superaltari benedicendo.

[1278.] Item, de ij.s ix.d pro ligatione quinque librorum, qui erant de dono Magistri Ricardi de Clyf. Item, de viij.d pro pergameno pro predictis libris.

Item de viij.d liberatis cuidam reparanti stillicidia^[1] Ecclesie, per duas vices. Item de xiiij.d iij.q^a. pro stagno^[2] ejusdem operis.

Then follow various payments for building a new kitchen, and furnishing the same.

Id. comput. iiij.s liberat. Nicholao Pret. pro viij magnis franc.^[3] lapidibus, qui vocantur sules^[4], emptis apud Watel^[5]. Item comput. iiij.s ij.d liberat. eidem pro centum pedibus de curstable^[6], emptis ab eodem. Item iiij.s iiij.d liberat. eidem pro vij lapidibus emptis ab eodem, qui vocantur lyntel. Item comput. vj.s iij.d pro xv franc. lapidibus, qui vocantur scwes^[7], emptis ab eodem. Item xxj.d liberat. pro iij lapidibus emptis apud Teynton^[8] cum cariagio. Item ij.s v.d liberat. predicto Nicholao pro xiij pedibus de pynun^[9] table, pret. ped. ij.d q. Item v.d liberat. eidem pro ij magnis lapidibus qui vocantur ragghes^[10]. Item vij.d liberat. eidem pro j franc, lapide habente in longitudinem iiij ped. et di. Item comput. xiiij.s liberat. eidem pro ducent. lapidibus qui vocantur talston^[11]. Item eid. alia vice liberat. xiiij.s pro ducentis de talston. Item eidem alia vice x.s vj.d pro j cent, de talston et quinquagint. empt. ab eodem. pret. cent. vij.s. Item comput. vij.s liberat. eidem pro j cent. de talston. It. ix.d liberat. eidem pro duabus columpnis^[12] in fenestris. Item eidem iij.s iiij.d pro xx pedibus in longitudine de quibus-

1. Gutters.
2. Solder.
3. Free-stone.
4. Sills, from the French seuil.
5. Wheatley, about five miles from Oxford: these quarries are still in use.
6. Strings, or string-courses.
7. Skews, stones cut askew, or sloping. Skew? a sloping face. Willis's Nomencl., p. 30. The word is written in the roll of the year 1288 "scyues."
8. Taynton, two miles from Burford, and about twenty from Oxford; these quarries are still in use and in good repute.
9. Probably the coping stones of the gable, from the French pignon.
10. Ragstone, a term still in use.
11. Talstone, probably cut stone, from the French pierre de taille.
12. Mullions. Willis's Nomencl., p. 47.