According to this table we are credited in England with 30,516 cubic millimetres of the holy Croſs, and it is intereſting to know where they are ſituated. M. Rohault de Fleury, writing in 1870, ſays there were pieces at Isleworth; St. Gregory, Downſide, near Bath; in the poſſesſion of Lord Petre; at Bergholt Eaſt, in Suffolk; at Plowden; at the convent of St. Mary, York; at Weſt Grinſtead; at St. George’s, Southwark; and Slindon, Suſſex. Theſe pieces of the holy Croſs are not large, as the following table, in cubic millimetres, ſhows:— At Isleworth 1,000 “ College of St. Gregory 6,120 Lord Petre (two relics) 8,287 At St. Mary, Bergholt Eaſt 1,008 ” Plowden Hall, Salop 262 “ St. Mary, York (two relics) 5,600 ” Weſt Grinſtead “ 38 ” St. George’s, Southwark (four relics) 63 “ St. Richard, Slindon 8,100 —————— TOTAL 30,516 One relic at St. Mary’s Convent, York, is very fine; it is ornamented with ſcroll-work of the tenth century, and bears three impreſſions of the ſeal of the Vicar Capitular of the dioceſe of Saint Omer, 1657 to 1662. It is a pectoral croſs that is ſuppoſed to have belonged to the patriarch Arnulph, who was with Robert, Duke of Normandy. The other is ſuppoſed to have been attached to the above, and to have belonged equally to Arnulph, patriarch of Jeruſalem. This is kept in a ſilver reliquary, which alſo contains relics of SS. Ignatius Loyola and François Xavier. We ſee by the Golden Legend, that St. Helena, after finding the Croſs, feeling certain that the nails were not far off, proſecuted a further ſearch for them, and they were diſcovered “shynyng as gold.” As with the faſhion of the Croſs, whether it was _immiſſa_ or _commiſſa_, there is, and was, a controverſy with regard to the nails, whether three or four. Boſius in his learned and exhauſtive book, _Crux Triumphans et Glorioſa_,[L] gives ſeveral authorities for three nails only—foremoſt, Gregory Nazianzen; but he does not give the paſſage where it may be found; the quotation, however, is Γυμνὸν τρισήλῳ κείμενον ξύλῳ λαϐών, “having taken from the three-nailed wood the dead (or hanging) body.” Thus clearly ſhowing the number of nails he conſidered right. Boſius then goes on to quote Apollinaris Laodicenus, who, in his tragedy entitled _Chriſtus patiens_, called the holy Croſs by the ſame words, τσισηλον ξυλω, “three-nailed wood”; and he alſo quotes from the _Meditat. vitæ Chriſti_ of Bonaventura, “_Illi tres clavi ſuſtinent totius corporis pondus_.” Nonnus, the Greek poet, writing in the fifth century, alſo ſays that our Lord’s feet overlapped each other, and were faſtened by only one large nail. So that there is a very fair amount of antiquity in favour of three nails.