with this noble record we bring to a close this unduly extended notice of the last provost of the college of Jesus at Rotherham.*

John Bokyng. On August 24th, 1483, John Bokyng, master of the grammar school at Rotherham, desires to be buried in the south chancel of Rotherham church, near the stall in which the wife of Richard Lille, bailiff of Rotherham, and Margaret his wife sit. To the fabric of the chapel to be built on Rotherham bridge 3s. 4d. To Margaret his wife a close of the value of 8s. per annum, to go after her death to Thomas, archbishop of York, for his college at Rotherham [Pr. Sep. 17 Reg. Test. v. 886.]-Testamenta Eboracensia, Raine

THE WILL OF WILLIAM RAWSON, PROVOST OF ROTHERHAM
COLLEGE.

June 22, 1495. William Rawson, præpositus collegii de Jhesu de Rotherham. Sep in eccl. par. de Rotherham, infra capellum de Jhesu. Lego pro uno lapide cooperiendo sepulcrum, sculptura literarum in eodem, etc. xvs. Pro extrancis in prandio infra collegium septimadie, vs. Summo altaris, pro uno le awter cloth, v virgas de panno lineo. Librario collegii d Jhesu in Rotherham, Nichalaum de Lira super salterium; primam Quinquagenarum Augustini librum sermonum domini Calin', in quo continentur Sermones magistri Cotys; unam summam nobilem, vocatum summam Angelicam, Magitsro Johanni Kyrhalgt sermones vocatos Mawdelen Sermondes in quaterius. Rogero Hinckkyrsell coopertorium pro lecto contextum cum unginibus, habentibus ancas in manibus. Domino Johanni Stryger unum rubeum mantellum. Johanni Bocher, famulo meo pro annis quibus servivit mihi in servitio, et alias ex caritate iiij marcas, magistro prest de Cantbregia quaternos quos dam de materia sermonizandi; quosdam de materia scholastica sen disputandi, una cum lectionibus scholasticis et aliis, ut ipse det illa collegio, vocato Pembroke stall. Ecclesiæ de Overton Waterwyle xj virgas panni linei pro ij le awterclothis ad summum altare; altari S. Katerinæ indicta eccl v virgas de meliori panno lineo ; et altari lineo; et altari alio, exparti australi v virgas, ad faciendum le awterclothis [Pr. 25 July 1495]

Mr. Canon Raine failed to make out how the testator was connected. Mr. Thomas Rawson, of Easingwold, leaves to his brother William, if he lives and becomes a priest his best book (Dated May 9, 1451 and proved June 2, 1452). A William Rawson, S.T.B., was vice-chancellor of Cambridge in 1492. He is probably the same person as the testator. The testator does not appear in Mr. Hunter's list of the provosts of Rotherham college, nor is there any appointment of him as such in Archbishop Rotherham's Register. If, therefore, he is to be placed on the list, we must suppose that Greybern resigned, and was reappointed on Rawson's death. The provosts were obliged by Statute to be Cambridge men.—Testamenta Eboracensia, vol. 4, pa. iii. Raine.

The following is not otherwise connected with Archbishop Rotherham than as illustrative of the ecclesiastical rule and governance as enforced by him.

Some further particulars regarding Bishop Pursglove will be given in our next number. [EDITOR RELIQUARY.]

The Will of Mr John Lathom, Canon of Beverley, an ecclesiastic who held high offices in the diocese of York, and made a pious disposition of his wealth. He was probably the greatest benefactor that the little nunnery of Appleton ever had. It is in the Ainsty, some eight or nine miles from York. It was founded by St. Adelina de Quintin in the 12th century. At the dissolution the family of Fairfax had a grant of it, from which it passed to the Milners about the year 1700. Shortly after the above testator's death, in the autumn of 1489, Archbishop Rotherham held a visitation of the nunnery of Appleton, and issued the following body of injunctions (Reg. Rotherham, 245 a. b.

First, and principally, we commande and injoyne that Divine service, and y rewles of your religion be observed and kept accordynge to your ordour, that ye be professed to.

Item that ye cloistre dores be shett and sparn in winter at vij and in somer at viij of the clock at nyghte; and ye keys nygthly be delyvered to you Prioresse; and ye, after ye said houres, suffre no person to come in or forth, without a cause reasonable.

Item that ye Prioresse suffre no man loge under the dortir, nor oon baksede; bot if it be such sad persones, by whom your howse may be holpyne and socured w'out slaunder, or suspicion.

Item, the ye, Prioress, and all your sisters loge nyghtly in y° dortour savyg if ye or your sisters be seke or deseased, then ye or thei, so seke or deseased, to keep a chambre.

Item, that noon of your sistirs use y alehouse nor ye waterside, where concusse of straungers daily resort.

Item that none of your sistirs have their service of mete and drynke to y chambre, but keepe y frater and ye hall, according to your religion, except any of thaim be seke.

Item that none of your sisters bringe in, receyve, or take any laie man, religious or secular into ye chambre or any secrete place daye or nyght, nor with thaim in such private place commyne, ete or drynke w'out lycence of you, Prioresse.

Item that ye Prioresse, lycence none of your sistirs to go pilgrimag or viset yr frendes w'out a grete cause; and then such a sister, so lycencyate by you to have wt her oon y° most sadde and well disposid sistirs to she come home agayne.

Item that ye graunte nor sell no corrodies nor lyveres of brede, nor ale, nor other vitell, to any person or persones from hens forward, w'out y auctorite and speciall lycynce of us or our vicar generall.

Item that ye se no such servauntes, as longeth to your place, come into mete or drinke, and not to have lyveres of brede and ale outward, but if ye thynk hit necessarye and for the welth of your house.

Item that ye take no perhedinaunutes or sogerners into your place from hensforward, but if thei be children, or ellis old persones, by which availe beliklyhod may groue to your place."-Surtees Society Testamenta Eboracensia, 1864, 1, pa. 174.

Mar. 8, 1504-5. Robert Holden, ad up cancello par eccl. de Rotherham pro vitriatione unicio fenestra xiijs. iiijd. (Reg. Rotherham).

A NOTE UPON SOME FRAGMENTS OF MEDIÆVAL POTTERY FROM TICKENHALL AND SCARBOROUGH.

BY LLEWELLYNN JEWITT, F.S.A., ETC., ETC., ETC.

In the possession of Sir John Crewe, Bart., of Calke Abbey, are some remarkably curious fragments of Tickenhall pottery, to which, for the purpose of comparing them with others from a distant locality, I wish very briefly to call attention. The fragments to which I allude are rudely formed female heads, which have served to ornament some of the medieval fictilia made at Tickenhall; they were dug up there on the site of the old pottery, along with pilgrims' bottles and portions of other vessels. They are engraved their full size on Plate II. The example, figs. 1 and 2, is, clearly, a female head of extremely rude, but very quaint design. The face has a peculiarly "sharp" and "wide awake," if not pleasing expression, and the hair is represented by incised lines. At the back of the head is what may either be regarded as a high comb, or part of the cap, and round the neck is a ruff or frill. The fragment is yellow or buff glazed, the eyes, mouth, and bands being inlaid with a dark brown clay. Fig. 3, also a head of a female, of curious features, has a close-fitting frill, or plaiting, of a cap around the forehead. It is, as is also fig. 4, of the same kind of clay, glazed and inlaid as the other.

It will be seen, on reference to the next engravings, figs. 5 and 6, that there is a marked general resemblance between these examples from Tickenhall and those which were found on the site of a mediæval pot-work on the North Cliff at Scarborough. The remains of this pottery were brought to light in 1854, when Mr. E. D. Nesfield succeeded in unearthing the remains of the kilns A figure of a grotesque animal having twisted horns; a twisted tail (only a part of which remains) turned over the back to the shoulders to form a handle; an opening in the back to receive the liquid, and the mouth forming the spout, was also found (fig. 7.)

Of the Tickenhall pot-works I do not purpose here to write. That a pottery existed there as early, at all events, as the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and probably much earlier, is incontestably proved by the remains which have from time to time been exhumed. There can, therefore, be no doubt that pottery has for more than three centuries been uninterruptedly made at this place. The earliest mention of Tickenhall pottery yet met with—and a very curious mention it is— is that by grand old Philip Kinder, who in 1650, in his collections towards a History of Derbyshire, now preserved in the Bodleian Library, thus wrote:-" Numa Pompilus here might have learn't his 'Straine of Frugalities!' Here are your best Fictilias made you; earthen vessels, potts, and pancions, at Tycknall, and carried all East England through." Doubtless the heads now happily preserved at Calke Abbey, and the pilgrims' bottles also there preserved, were among the "best Fictilias" spoken of by Kinder, and they were of a high class for the period in which they were made.

I shall probably return, on another occasion, to the subject of Tickenhall and its pottery.

Winster Hall, Derbyshire.