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OF THE MONASTERY OF ST. G LL. Ill are arranged like the spaces similarly indicated in the novices' convent, l^aths, as it is known, were at an earlier period amongst the most ordinary medicinal remedies. The old Benedictine rnle expresses itself npon the nse of baths, in the cha[)ter de iiijinnis frafrihus, m the following manner-. Ba/- vcarum mm infirnm quotiens expcdit offer at iu senibm a/den/, et maxime juvenihm tar dim concedatur. The house for letting blood. ^' Fleotomatis hie gmtandum vel potionariis." This building, the entrance to which is on the sontli side, comprises one large quadrangular space, in which patients can be bled and purged. It is furnished with six tables, " mensiE," and the same number of benches, and is heated by four stoves placed at the corners. As in similar cases it does not appear to be easily determined whether a large table or a tire-place is indicated by the great square in the centre of the space. The Factory. " IIcBC sul) se teneat fratnim qui tegmina curat ^ This place bears in front of it the above line, which implies that it is devoted to the making and repairing the clothes of the brethren, but this is not the sole business which is carried on within it. The building must be intended to comply with that article of the Benedictine rule which enjoins that the monastery if possible should be so constituted as to contain w^ithin itself every necessary of life, as water for the mill, the bakehouse, the garden ; and all mechanical arts should be carried on therein, so as to avoid the necessity of the monks going out of its bounds. The factory consists of two parts of unequal size, but connected with each other. The larger building is provided with a vestibule and chambers, which enclose tAvo quadrangular courts or apartments, in the middle of which are two small ambiguous squares delineated, which Keller thinks are houses or cabins for the masters or over- seers. The inscription " domus et ojjieina camcrarii," may a])ply to the whole apartment or merely to the squares in the middle. Around these courts are the workshops of the shoe-