ression of monasteries by Henry VIII.--Chester,
Peterborough, Gloucester, Oxford, Bristol, and Westminster, 1538.
Westminster was united to London in 1550.--_Vide Tanner's Notitia
Monastica_.

C. G. E. P.

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ADDINGTON, SURREY.

The lord of this manor, in the reign of Henry III. held it by this service,
viz. to make the king a mess of pottage at his coronation; and so lately
as the reign of Charles II. this service was ordered by the court of
claims, and accepted by the king at his table.

C. G. E. P.

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THE BELL-SAVAGE INN

On Ludgate-hill, has, for more than a century, since its name was
mentioned by Addison in the _Spectator_, occasioned a great variety of
conjectures. These conjectures, however, all appear to have been erroneous,
as the inn took the addition to its name from its having belonged to, or
been kept by, a person of the name of _Savage_. The sign originally
appears to have been a bell hung within a hoop, a common mode of
representation in former times. This origin has been proved by a grant in
the reign of Henry VI. in which John French, gentleman of London, gives to
Joan French, widow, his mother, "all that tenement or inn called Savage's
Inn, otherwise called the Bell on the Hoop." In the original "vocat"
Savagesynne, alias vocat "Le Belle on the Hope." Perhaps the phrase
"Cock-a-Hoop," may be derived from the sign of that bird standing on a
hoop, thus most conspicuously displaying himself, as we find that sign or
rather design existed in the reign above mentioned.

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PARISH FEASTING.

A dinner always accompanies meetings on public occasions; feasting was
formerly attached in like manner to chantries, anniversaries, &c.; and, as
it appears in part of the curious items in the parish books of Darlington,
clergymen officiated for a donation of wine. It appears, too, that both
ministers and parishioners were saddled with charitable aids to itinerants
of various kinds; that noblemen granted passes in the manner of briefs;
and that it was deemed right and proper for even churchwardens and
overseers to patronize knowledge. Accordingly we have,

"1630. To Mr. Goodwine, a distressed scholer, 2s. 6d."

"1631. Given to a poor scholler, 12d.--Given to Mary Rigby, of Hauret West,
in Pembrokeshire, in Wales, who had the Earle of Pembroke's passe.... To
an Irish gentlema