[12] It appears from an entry in the preceding year, that this man was first sent to “Sentt Thomas Spittell in Soughwork,” when it was discovered that he was afflicted with the leprosy, or some cutaneous disease, and immediately removed to the Lazar-house at Mile End, it being strictly forbidden that such cases should remain in the hospitals.  These lazar-houses were built away from the town; one was the Lock Hospital, in Southwark; one at Kingsland, another at Knightsbridge, and that mentioned above between Mile End and Stratford.  The laws were very strict in the expulsion of leprous people from the city; and if they attempted to force their way into the hospitals, they were bound fast to horses, and dragged away to the lazar-houses.

    [13] The baldricke was the garter and buckle by means of
    which the clapper was suspended inside the bell.

    [14] Harnes, or armour, which perhaps hung over some of the
    monuments in the church.

[15] It was about this time that clocks began to be generally used in churches (although of a much earlier invention); and in subsequent years we have several items of expenditure connected with that above mentioned.  In 1595:—­

      “Paid for a small bell for the watche iiij’s

      “Paid to the smith for Iron worke to it xx’d

      “Paid for a waight for the Clocke wayinge
        36’lb and for a ringe of Iron v’s.”

    Still, however, the hour-glass was used at the pulpit-desk, to
    determine the length the parson should go in his discourse; and
    xij’d for a new hour-glass frequently occurs.

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QUERIES.

COLLEGE SALTING.

Mr. Editor.—­If your very valuable work had existed in October, 1847, when I published in the British Magazine a part of Archibishop Whitgift’s accounts relative to his pupils while he was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, I should certainly have applied to you for assistance.

In several of the accounts there is a charge for the pupil’s “salting;” and after consulting gentlemen more accurately informed with regard to the customs of the university than myself, I was obliged to append a note to the word, when it occurred for the first time in the account of Lord Edward Zouch, in which I said, “I must confess my inability to explain this word; and do not know whether it may be worth while to state that, on my mentioning it to a gentleman, once a fellow-commoner of the college, he told me, that when, as a freshman, he was getting his gown from the maker, he made some remark on the long strips of sleeve by which such gowns are distinguished, and was told that they were called ‘salt-bags,’ but he could not learn why; and an Oxford friend tells me, that going to the buttery to drink salt and water was part of the form of his admission....  This