The Reliquary

THE

RELIQUARY,

QUARTERLY

ARCHEOLOGICAL JOURNAL AND REVIEW.

A DEPOSITORY FOR PRECIOUS RELICS-LEGENDARY,
BIOGRAPHICAL, AND HISTORICAL,

ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE

HABITS, CUSTOMS, AND PURSUITS, OF OUR FOREFATHERS.

EDITED BY

LLEWELLYNN JEWITT, F.S.A.,

LOCAL SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON,
HON. AND ACTUAL MEMBER OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARCHEOLOGICAL COMMISSION,
AND STATISTICAL COMMITTEE, PSKOV,

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE DERBYSHIRE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ARCHÆOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,
ASSOCIATE OF THE BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION,

HON. MEMBER OF THE ESSEX ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, AND OF THE MANX SOCIETY,
COR. MEM. OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

COR. MEM. OF THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA,
ETC., ETC., ETC.

VOL. XXII., 1881-2.

LONDON:

MROSE & SONS, 23, OLD BAILEY;

AND

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE;

DERBY: BEMROSE & SONS, IRONGATE.

CORNELL
UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

INTRODUCTION.

FOR the twenty-second time-at the close of the twentysecond year of publication of my " RELIQUARY "—"I take my pen in hand," as the common "Letter-writer" phrase is, to return thanks to my friends-contributors and subscribers alike for all the help they have afforded me in my undertaking, and for having again given it during the past year such hearty and valuable support. The "RELIQUARY," which now three-and-twenty years ago I projected and started, and which during the whole of that time I have myself personally conducted, has from its first hour to the present been a true "labour of love" to me; and one of the most grateful tasks that befalls me in its conduct is that of acknowledging with thankfulness the help that has been given me by the admirable, gifted, and altogether worthy staff of contributors, whose names appear in the lists of its contents. I thank them one and all, not only on my own personal account, but far beyond that, on behalf of the whole antiquarian and literary world, for all the valuable matter they have put on record in my pages, and I assure them that, in the future as in the past, their help will be to the fullest extent appreciated by me, and by all thinking men "the wide world o'er."

Unlike most of its contemporaries, the "RELIQUARY” has always contented itself with yearly volumes, whilst others, to swell the number and "bring age on apace," complete one every six months-two in a year! Had the "RELIQUARY adopted this plan its volumes would now have counted up to forty-and-four, and I should have had the pleasure of returning thanks twice the number of times that gratification has been mine. Readers gain nothing by the splitting up of a year's numbers into two volumes, but the Magazine that adopts that plan, gains the meretricious advantage of wearing an appearance of age, and of being "old established," that it is

not entitled to. The contents of the volumes, not their number, are the criterions of excellence in a Magazine, and, thanks to the brilliant array of names that have ranked themselves among contributors to the "RELIQUARY," I look back through the vista of the past twenty-two years with a satisfaction and a pride that I think are eminently justified by the good work that has been accomplished,

In the future-so long as I am spared to carry on the publication-the "RELIQUARY" shall not flag in interest, and I trust with the continued help of contributors, and by the occasional judicious introduction of new features, to make it even more acceptable to its readers than it hitherto may have been. Twenty-two years! not quite a third of my own age, and yet we are literally growing old together! But as years increase I can honestly say my love for the study of archæology in all its branches, which the "RELIQUARY" upholds, grows, if possible, more ardent; and I feel that, if spared yet a few years longer, much remains to be done, which I trust to accomplish through its pages. Again, and again, I thank my friends and contributors for all their help in the past, and beg them, one and all, to continue their aid in the future.

LLEWELLYNN JEWITT

The Hollies, Duffield,
July, 1882.