with, and many beneficiaries to be satisfied, whose rights will
not be finally extinguished until June, 1926. But excavation was at once
commenced, and the actual rebuilding in 1905. It need hardly be said
that all that has been discovered of the ancient work, here and
elsewhere, whether above or below ground, has been carefully preserved,
and incorporated (as far as possible _in situ_) into the restoration.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] I. "Liber fundationis ecclesiae et prioratus S.
Bartholomaei in West-Smithfield, London; per Raherum qui illic
religiosos viros secundum regulam S. patris Augustini
aggregavit, iisdemque per XXII annos prioris dignitate et
officio functus praetuit, et de miraculis ipsius."

II. "Idem liber Anglice."

Both are on parchment, in pages of the same (quarto) size, and
bound together in a single volume of eighty-three leaves,
divided almost equally between the Latin and English
versions.--Cottonian MSS. Vespasian, B. ix.

[2] "When he attained the flower of youth, he began to haunt
the households of noblemen and the palaces of princes, where,
under every elbow of them, he spread their cushions, with
apings and flatterings delectably anointing their eyes, to draw
to him their friendships. And yet he was not content with this,
but haunted the King's palace, and among the noisefull press of
that tumultuous Court enforced himself with jollity and carnal
suavity, by the which he might draw to him the hearts of many a
one."--Cottonian MS., _ut supra_.

[3] Cottonian MS.

[4] _Ibid._

[5] This Richard de Belmeis (Beauvais) was the first of two
bishops of the same name, and held the See of London for twenty
years (1108-1128).

The name of Rahere, which appears in various forms, suggests a
French origin; and from the fact that it occurs in the
signature, or attestation, of certain documents discovered in
Brittany, as well as from the close relations between the
bishop and the founder of St. Bartholomew's, it is conjectured
that they both came from the same neighbourhood. Otherwise
their joint interest in the foundation at Smithfield is
sufficiently accounted for by the benevolent object and the
situation within the London diocese.

Leland gives the credit of the foundation to Henry I, as having
granted the land out of the royal domain.

[6] Th