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XXIII. Observations on an antient Font at Burnham Deepdale, in Norfolk. By the Rev. Samuel Pegge, F. A. S. In a Letter to the Hon. Daines Barrington.

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As the Society of Antiquaries formerly thought proper to present to the public a print of the very elegant marble font in St. James's church, Westminster, and another of the famous Bridekirk font, to which many more of the like kind have been added by various authors; I beg leave to bring forward for your inspection and amusement, a drawing, which I believe to be very accurately made, by a young gentleman, of a most curious and singular antient laver, appearing now in the parish church of Burnham-Deepdale in Norfolk.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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page 177 note [a] Vetusta Monum. I. No. III.

page 177 note [b] Archæologia, II. p. 131. This has been illustrated by Bishop Lyttelton; and before by Bishop Nicolson in Lowthorp's Abridgement of Philos. Trans. III. p. 435. See also Mr. Gough's noble Edition of Camden's Britannia, III. p. 183.

page 177 note [c] Gostling, Walk about Canterbury, p. 204, 2d. Edit. Carter, Antiq. I. p. 30. Gent. Mag. 1786, p. 650; 1787, p. 565, &c. No. LII. of Mr. Nichols's Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica.

page 177 note * Pl. XIX.

page 178 note [d] See some instances of the like fort in Mr. Gough's splendid work, Sepulchral Monuments, p. xcviii.

page 178 note [e] See Sir John Cullum, in Antiquarian Repertory, Vol. II. p. 137.

page 179 note [f] Sir James Burrough, cited by Sir John Cullum, ubi sup.

page 180 note [g] In a Psalter of mine printed A. D. 1500 on vellum, in January we have these lines, which I give here to explain my meaning, and to shew the nature of these abbreviations;

Cisi ge. Janus. Epi sibi. guil. come hil. fa. mau. mar. an.

Prisca. fab. ag. vin. eme. paul conver. ag. julian.

which mean Circumcisio. Epiphania. Guillermus. Commemoratia Episcoporum et Abbatum Ordinis Hilarius. Felix. Maurus. Marcellus. Antonius. In the Pentameter, Prisca. Fabianus. Agnes. Vincentius. Emerentiana. Pauli Conversio. Agnes secundo. Julianus. Those in Italics are in red ink. We must not expect quantity in Monkish verses.

page 180 note [h] See what is said under January below.

page 180 note [i] He was a bookseller at Paris A. D. 1508, at least his Almanack for 21 years begins then. There is no Colophon, but he is mentioned in Ames, p. 485.

page 181 note [k] Medo, nis. mead. Spelm. Gloss.

page 181 note [l] The same four lines occur in my Psalter of 1500, cited in note [g].