. Archaeologia cantiana. c. Inprirais ut in locis silencio deputatis, et precipue in Choro, Claustra, Refectorio,& Dormitario, silencium observetur: . . Ita quod supe hoc non garulent neccoutendant, etc., etc. Datum in Monasterio vestro Kal. Maii 4. d. mccxcvi.(Archbishop Winchelseas Register, f. 63.) X Archbishop Langhams Register, f. 61-5. 168 MINSTER IN SHEPPEY. We cannot better close this brief account of the MinsterNunnery than by referring to a highly interesting MS. inthe British Museum (Cottonian MSS., Faustina, B. vi.), wherea list is given of the memorial days of five of the Prioress


. Archaeologia cantiana. c. Inprirais ut in locis silencio deputatis, et precipue in Choro, Claustra, Refectorio,& Dormitario, silencium observetur: . . Ita quod supe hoc non garulent neccoutendant, etc., etc. Datum in Monasterio vestro Kal. Maii 4. d. mccxcvi.(Archbishop Winchelseas Register, f. 63.) X Archbishop Langhams Register, f. 61-5. 168 MINSTER IN SHEPPEY. We cannot better close this brief account of the MinsterNunnery than by referring to a highly interesting MS. inthe British Museum (Cottonian MSS., Faustina, B. vi.), wherea list is given of the memorial days of five of the Prioresses:this unfortunately gives only their Christian names, andconsequently we are not able to identify them, or to givethe years in which they died. The names occur in the fol-lowing order:— 2 Id. Martii, ob. Johanna de Badlesmere, Priorissa deMenstre. 12 Kal. Maii, ob. Eustachina, Priorissa de Noil. Octobris, ob. Agnes, ditto. 13 Kal. Octobris, ob. Christina, Kal. Decembris, ob. Gunnora, SEAL OF THE PRIORY OF MINSTER IN SHEPPEY, FROM A CHARTER OF THEDEAN AND CHAPTER OF CANTERBURY. ( 169 ) NOTES ON THE MUNICIPAL RECORDSOP QUEENBOROUGH. BY REV. C. EVELEIGH WOODRUFF, The recent visit of the Kent Archaeological Society toQueenborough may afford excuse for a short notice of theMunicipal Records of that borough. The records are care-fully preserved in a muniment room beneath the Town Hall,but it seems likely that in former days they were less wellcared for, inasmuch as few date back further than the end ofthe fifteenth century. At some period no doubt a generalclearing out resulted in a holocaust being made of what theMayor and Jurats considered mere useless rubbish, in whichthe earlier records would certainly have been , enough remains to give us some little insight intothe history of the borough in the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies ; and since no report upon the records has beenissued by the Historical MSS. Commission, I venture


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