long possessed by the family of Hilton, by whom it was again restored to the parishioners of the Holy Cross. The living is a vicarage with St. Giles annexed, valued in the king’s book at £8. The small tithes are commuted for £363, and the impropriator, Lord Berwick, receives £110. The patronage is vested in the Right Hon. Lord Berwick, who received it in exchange for three small livings in Suffolk; incumbent, Rev. Robert L. Burton, M.A. The vicarage of the Holy Cross is a small fabric of wood and plaster situated in the Abbey Foregate, now converted into two cottages. From time immemorial certain lands have been vested in the churchwardens and their successors; they now produce an income of £250 per annum. “The vicar and churchwardens are a corporation with power of making leases of the landed possessions, &c., and have a common seal which is appended to such documents. The seal is kept in a chest secured by three locks, and the keys are severally in the possession of the vicar and two churchwardens. It is of brass of the _visica piscis_ form, and has in the centre a baton or mace, and on each side a clothed arm projecting towards the centre, that on the dexter side holding a pastoral crook, that on the sinister side a naked sword; the ground work studded with stars, and around the margin this inscription:—S.COMMVNE DE FFORYATE MONACHOR.” The space of ground on the east side of the church, containing 7300 yards, whereon formerly stood the choir and Lady Chapel of the monastery, was in 1840 converted into a public cemetery.