To conclude, the smallest things are noted. Thus a thousand “peats,” perhaps brought from the Forest, cost, in 1562, 15_d._, whilst a load of “fursen,” still the local plural of furse, perhaps also from the same place, was 8_d._ Nothing in these accounts escapes notice. In 1586 a “coking stole,” the well-known _cathedra stercoris_, the Old-English “_scealfing-stol_,” is charged 10_d._; whilst a collar, or, as it is elsewhere in the same book called, “an iron choker for vagabonds,” cost 14_d._ [164]In _Archæologia_, vol. iv. pp. 117, 118, is a letter from Brander, the geologist and antiquary, describing a quantity of spurs and bones of herons, bitterns and cocks, found on a part of the monastic buildings, showing that the site had been previously occupied. [165]Holdenhurst had ten hydes and a half taken into the Forest (_Domesday_, as before, iv. a). It then possessed a small church, and, as we find one mentioned in the charter of Richard de Redvers in Henry I.’s reign, we may fairly conclude that this, too, was not destroyed by the Conqueror. There were also there fisheries for the use of the hall. [166]_Cartularium Monasterii de Christchurch Twinham._ Brit. Mus., Cott. MSS., Tib. D. vi., pars ii., f. 194 a. This chartulary was much injured in the fire of 1731, but has been restored by Sir F. Madden. Quoted in Dugdale’s _Monasticon Anglicanum_, vol. vi. p. 303, Ed. 1830. [167]For further information, especially on the fortunes of the De Redvers family, and minor details, which I think would hardly interest the general reader, see Brayley’s and Ferrey’s work on the Priory of Christchurch, London, 1834, pp. 6, 11, 22: and Warner’s _South-west Parts of Hampshire_, vol. ii. pp. 55-65, which, notwithstanding some errors, is a most painstaking history. [168]_Collectanea de Rebus Britannicis_, Ed. Hearne, vol. iv. p. 149. [169]The possessions of the house were large, and brought in above 600_l._ a year. Yet we find that the brethren were in debt in every direction. At Poole, Salisbury, and Christchurch, they owed 41_l._ 19_s._ 6_d._ for mere necessaries. There was due 24_l._ 2_s._ 8_d._ to the Recorder of Southampton for wine; and a bill of 8_l._ 13_s._ 2_d._ to a merchant of Poole, for “wine, fish, and bere.” Certificate of Monasteries, No. 494, p. 48. Record Office. Quoted by Brayley and Ferrey, Appendix No. vi., pp. 9, 10. [170]Brit. Mus., Bibl. Cott., Cleopatra, E. iv., f. 324 b. [171]“Petition of John Draper.” Amongst the Miscellaneous MSS. of the Treasury of the Exchequer, Record Office. [172]_Archæologia_, vol. v. pp. 224-29.