in rebus aut personis; ne quod ad bonum, ut præmittitur, est dispositum, ad noxam seu dissolutionis opprobrium tendere dinoscatur: volentes etiam, quod minister dictæ eoquinæ, quicunque fuerit, de expressum factis in dictâ coquinâ, abbati et conventui reddat, quater, compotum annuatim. Concedimus etiam, pro nobis et successoribus nostris, quod diebus infrascriptis, viz. die natalis Domini, S. Joh. evangelista, die Pascha, Ascensionis Domini, die Pentecostes, et in diebus Corporis Christi, Assumptionis beatæ Virginis, et in die Omnium Sanctorum, dicti prior et conventus nullas expensas facient de ecclesiis antedictis, sed tam ipsi quàm eorum servientes, in coquinâ prædictâ, annis singulis, in dictis diebus procurari debent in omnibus de communi: Ne tamen præsens dispositio in eventum aliquem sit mutata, eam, tam sigillo monasterii nostri, quam sigillo nostro privato, fecimus communiri; et à venerabili patre nostro in Christo Domino Coventr. et Lichefelden. episcopo procurabimus confirmari. Data in capitulo nostro de Haghmon die Martis in virgiliâ Epiphaniæ Domini, anno Domini millessimo trecentessimo tricesimo secundo.

NUM. XI.

Ordinatio pro Officiis Prioris et Sub-Prioris ibidem.

[Ibid.]

IN Dei nomine, amen. Divinâ inspirante gratiâ, anno Domino millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimo nono die S. Michaelis archangeli, Richardus Burnell, sub tuitione deificâ, abbas monasterii S. Joh. apostoli et evangelistæ de Haghmon, columnæ canonicalis gerens officium, in pleno capitulo, cum assensu sui conventus, et aliorum prudentum virorum fretus consilio, observantias pertinentes ad ministrationes, quos priori claustrali, et sub-priori, in ordinali suo non aliquo modo repertas, ita prudenter et laudabiliter ordinavit: Imprimis quod vices abbatis, illo absente, generaliter habeant, statutaque ejus legalia inviolata conservent, et semper in omni loco sanctorum patrum ordinationes ad regulam canonicalem constituta teneantur. Et præter hæc specialiter ordinavit certas in oratorio, ad præfati prioris officium pertinentes, observantias: Primariè sancivit, quod locum et sedem pro priore deputatum, dummodo fuerit in ecclesiâ, habeant et custodiant præter in horâ postquam celebrabit missam altam, et tunc chori ultimum servet locum. Item in omni processione conventuali prosequatur dominus prior totalem conventum immediatè et directè ante abbatem; et absente illo servet locum ipsius abbatis; viz. post conventum directè, et in medio, nisi in processionibus ad aquam benedictam, et ad recreationes perquirendas, in quibus consimilem ordinem et locum teneat conventus in procedendo, sicut in aliis post conventum. Subsequendo insuper ebdomodarii curam minimè observet, sed celebret ipse missam conventualem in festis omnibus duplicibus, exceptis illis in quibus dominus abbas voluerit celebrare. Præterea semper post incensationem abbatis in choro, immediatè et secundariè incensetur prior ab eodem à quo incensabatur et abbas. Ulteriùs in capitulo, refectorio, et infirmariâ, et in omnibus locis, tam conventualibus quam non conventualibus, servet et custodiat sæpedictus prior, post dominum abbatem, locum et sedem super omnes suos confratres, maximè superiorem: Et quod in omni loco, absente abbate, sibi serviatur de cipho et omnibus ferculis coopertis.

Item ad sub-prioris curam decrevit solicitamque, sicut post priorem, præcedit alios onere, ita omnes præcedet honore; quare post priorem in omni loco sit primus, et ab abbate in choro teneat sedem, quæ est quinta. Et ut hæc omnia inviolabiliter à prædictis et assiduè observentur et religiosorum animæ ad horum curas solicitudines spe allectivâ condignæ remunerationis ferventiùs excitentur, protegentibus cœlestis oraculi verbis; viz. " dignus est suâ mercede operarius:" Decretisque sanctorum patrum munientibus; sc. "à mercede repelli non debet, qui eligitur ad onus;" sancivit in hunc modum: Imprimis, quod præfatus prior claustralis habebit pro recreationibus suis, cameram quandam sub dormitorio, introitum habentem in claustro juxta parlarii ostium, quam prædilectus confrater noster et canonicus dominus Will. Salop pronunc, et diu ante, prior claustralis nuper magnis reparavit sumptibus et plurimis renovavit laboribus, cum gardino vocato ab antiquo Longenores-gardine camera præscriptæ annexo, unà cum columbari in eodem; quæ om

nia et singula prædicto præfato domino Will. Salope priori concedimus, vitâ sibi comitante, per præsentes; possidebitque sæpefatus prior claustralis cameram antedictam, cum suprascriptis, post decessum solum prænominati Will. Salop, nunc prioris, ac omnia et singula jocalia et ornamenta, tam altari in capellâ S. Andreæ in ecclesiâ, quam dictæ camera pertinentia, quæ conscribuntur, seu aliquibus futuris temporibus conscribentur, ex concessione seu donatione ejusdem, ad officium prædicti prioris claustralis, et alterius cujuscunque in scedula præsentibus annexâ, ita tamen quod annuatim feriâ sextâ proximè post festum Assumptionis Virginis gloriosæ sæpenominatus prior claustralis, qui pro tempore fuerit, seu alius qualiscunque, dictam cameram, cum aliis præ nominatis, habens et occupans dicet et faciet dici pro anniversario dicti domini Will. nunc prioris, per totum conventum, cum nota, Placebo et Dirige, cum novem lectionibus; et in crastino, viz. die Sabbati sequentis, Commendationes et Missam de requiem, pro quo eodem die dabitur per prædicta habentem et occupantem eidem conventui xvid. in piscibus, seu in aliis ad pietantiam, et domino abbati viiid. pro lagenâ vini, ad audiendum per se aut per suam assignatum compotum, de omnibus et singulis jocalibus et ornamentis in præfatâ scedula specificatis seu specificandis; et si aliqua eorundem, per prædictum priorem claustralem, seu alium, prædicta habentem, dampnificantur, tunc dominus abbas pensionem priori claustrali inferiùs assignandum detinebit, quousque de dictâ dampnificatione fuerit satisfactum, seu per retractionem alterius pecuniariæ distributionis pertinentis alicui alteri, omnia prædicta habenti et possidenti, et quousque solutum sit abbati, vi s. viiid. quociens deficitur in servitio et computo supradictis.

Præterea percipiet de pecunia pro ebdomodariis ordinata non minus, et denarios quadraginta. Item omnes ad abbathiam infrascriptam de Biriton redditus recipiet, cum pencione quadam ex decimis de Eton ejusdem rectore. . . . solidos ipse xx. habebit, sub- prior decem, sed domino abbati reliquum remanebit. Et ut hoc decretum perpetuæ firmitatis robur obtineat invocato Dei consilio in capitulari domo contradictores sententiâ excommunicationis innodavit, ut quicunque, temporibus futuris, hanc paginam violare, vel contra hanc collationem suam venire præsumpserit, indignationem Salvatoris Domini nostri Jesu Christi et beatæ virginis Mariæ, et beati Johannis apostoli et evangelista, et omnium sanctorum irremediabiliter possit incurrere. Et quia voluit quod hæc sua donatio et concessio, et confirmatio rata et stabilis imperpetuum permaneat, hoc scriptum sigilli sui munimine, unà cum communi sigillo domus de Haghmon, et toto capitulo, datum apud Haghmon die et anno supradictis.

NUM. XII.

Privilegia per Papam Alexandrum tertium, concessa Anno Domini 1172, et deinceps in sex Bullis, Monasterio de Haghmon.

[Ibid.]

IMPRIMIS ut ordo canonicus qui secundùm Deum, et beati August. regulam ibidem esse dinoscitur perpetuis temporibus observeter.

Item quascunque possessiones, quæcunque bona ecclesia de Haghmon possidet nunc, aut in futurum, concessione pontificum, largitione regum vel principum, oblatione fidelium, seu aliis justis modis poterit adipisci, firma et illibata permaneant.

Item de novalibus dicti monasterii et nutrimentis animalium, nullus præsumat exigere decimas.

Item confirmamus libertates et immunitates ab episcopis, regibus, principibus, seu aliis quibuscunque fidelibus vobis concessas.

Item sepulturam ipsius loci liberam esse concedimus ; et eorum extremæ voluntati nullus obsistat, qui se illic sepeliri deliberaverint.

Item nequis fratres, clericos et laicos, post factam in dictâ ecclesiâ professionem, suscipiat aut retineat sine litera

rum vestrarum cautione.

consensu vel fratrum pars consilii sanioris, secundùm Dei timorem, et beati Augustini regulam providerint eligendum.

Item decernimus, ut nulli omnino hominum liceat præfatam ecclesiam, vel loca sibi subdita, temerè perturbare, aut ejus possessiones auferre, vel ablatas retinere, minuere, seu quibuslibet vexationibus fatigare.

Siqua igitur in futurum ecclesiastica secularisve persóna, hanc nostræ constitutionis paginam, sciens, contra eam temerè venire temptaverit, secundò tertiòve commonita, nisi præsumptionem suam dignâ satisfactione correxerit, potestatis honorisque sui dignitate careat; reamque se divino judicio existere de perpetratâ iniquitate cognoscat; et à sacratissimo corpore ac sanguine Dei et Domini Redemptoris nostri Jhesu Christi aliena fiat, atque in extremo examine districtæ ultioni subjaceat.

Item liceat vobis personas liberas et absolutas è seculo fugientes, ad conversationem vestram recipere; et eatenus, sine alicujus contradictione in vestro collegio retinere.

Item in parochialibus ecclesiis, quas tenetis, liceat vobis, clericos eligere et episcopo præsentare; quibus idonei inventi fuerint, episcopus animarum curam committat, ut de plebis curâ episcopo; vobis autem de temporalibus debeant respondere.

Ita cum generale interdictum terræ fuerit, liceat vobis clausis januis, exclusis excommunicatis, et interdictis, non pulsatis campanis, suppressâ voce, divina officia celebrare.

Item ecclesiam vestram cum omnibus quæ inpræsentiarum legitimè possidet, et in futurum justis modis poterit adipisci, sub beati Petri et nostrâ protectione suscipimus.

Item de molendinis et pratis vestris, nemini decimas solvere teneamini, si de hiis non consueverunt aliquando decimæ solvi.

Item liceat vobis ecclesias piè vobis collatas, de auctoritate diocesanorum episcoporum, et assensu dominorum fundi, recipere, à secularibus viris, jus patronatus, si jus ipsum piè vobis duxerint conferendum.

Item inhibemus, ne cui liceat, infra parochias vestras, sine assensu diœcesani episcopi, et vestro, ecclesiam vel oratorium ædificare.

Item inhibemus, nequis, infra grangias aut clausuras vestras, ignem apponere, furtum vel rapinam facere, hominem capere, aut interficere audeat.

Item nequis, pro benedictione seu intronizatione abbatis vestri, quicquam à vobis exigere vel extorquere præsumat, quia, sicut libera et gratuita ejus esse debet electio, ita ipsius benedictio at intronizatio.

Item Honorius papa tertius, auctoritate tibi præsentium indulgemus, ut salvis commissionibus à te hactenus impetratis, de causis cognoscere de cætero minime teneatis, nisi de indulgentiâ hujusmodi optinendâ, ad te literæ plenam fecerint mentionem.

Item Nicholaus papa tertius, personas vestras, et locum in quo divino estis obsequio mancipati, cum omnibus bonis, quæ inpræsentiarum possidetis, aut in futurum justis modis, præstante Domino, poteritis adipisci, sub beati Petri et nostrâ protectione suscipimus; specialiter terras, domos, possessiones, grangias, redditus, prata, silvas, pascua, pasturas, nemora, maneria, et alia bona vestra, sicut ea omnia justè et pacificè possidetis, vobis et per vos monasterio vestro, auctoritate apostolicâ confirmamus, et præsentis scripti patrocinio communimus.

Item Nicholaus papa tertius, omnes libertates, et immunitates, à prædecessoribus nostris Romanis pontificibus, sive per privilegia, vel alias indulgentias monasterio vestro et vobis concessas, necnon libertates, et exemptiones secularium exactionum, à regibus, principibus, et aliis Christi fidelibus vobis indultas, vobis et per vos eidem monasterio, auctoritate apostolicâ, confirmamus.

Item Bonifacius papa nonus, de omnipotentis Dei misericordiâ et beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum ejus auctoritate confisi, omnibus verè pœnitentibus, et confessis, qui in Assumptionis beatæ Mariæ Virginis, Johannis Evangelistæ, ac Inventionis et Exaltationis S. Crucis, et Johannis Baptista festivitatibus, necnon per ipsarum Assumptionis beatæ Mariæ, Johannis Evangelista, et Joh. Baptistæ festivitatum octavas, ecclesiam conventualem S. Johannis Evangelistæ monasterio de Haghmon devotè visitaverint, annuatim, et ad conservationem hujusmodi, manus porrexerint adjutrices, singulis festivitatum tres annos et totidem quadragenas; octavarum verò diebus, quibus ecclesiam ipsam

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THIS Abbey was founded, to the honour of St. James, for black canons, by William Peverel, of Nottingham, natural son to the Conqueror. The precise time of its erection does not appear. It must, however, have been built before the year 1112; the founder dying about the latter end of that year, or the beginning of 1113. Adeliva, his wife, died in 1119. The ground allotted to the monks by the founder for their buildings was forty acres, to which he added the mill and church at Duston. These donations were confirmed in the 5th Hen. I. and again by Henry the IId. in the eighteenth year of his reign; with a further confirmation of sixty acres of assarts at Hyde and at Rokeland. Their revenues became soon augmented by considerable benefactions and possessions. In the fifty-second of Henry III. they obtained licence for a fair to be held at the convent on the eve of the festival of St. James, and the two following days. This grant was renewed in the 14th year of Henry IVth. The fair continued to be held in the abbey grounds long after the dissolution of the monastery. About 1760 it was moved into the town of Northampton, where it is still kept.

Bridges, from whom the above particulars have been taken, gives a long list of donations of small parcels of land to this monastery, with a few gifts of higher importance.

a See Bridges's Hist. Northampt. pp. 501, 502. from the Register of St. James and other Records.

The following are the Entries concerning St. James, Northampton, in Pope Nicholas's Taxation, A.D. 1291.

Linc. Sp. Porc. in eccl. de Rode, 31. 68. 8d. Linc. Temp. In Bluham de redd. 118. In Turveye de redd. 21. 68. 8d. In Northampt. in redd. 41. Ibid. de redd. ad pitanc. 41. In Dyston in terris redd. et pratis, 57. 168. Ibid. de redd. ad pitanc. monachorum, 31. 188. 8d. In Wotton et Alrington et le Hyde et Gordon in terris pratis redd. 47. 148.

Among the latter we find, a part of the church of Rode, one virgate of land in Rode, with the chapel and certain lands and a mill in Hertwell; fifty acres of land adjoining to Hide, by the gift of Robert de Pavely; the church of Throp, from William de Betun; a moiety of the church of Helmeden, by Matthew de Remeili, afterwards given up; the church of Lichebarewe, by Rai le Poer; the church of Gatesden Parva; and divers houses and rents in the town of Northampton, St. James's End, and at Charing Cross in London.a

In the 12th Edw. II. the abbat of St. James was summoned to a parliament held at York: being very infirm he appointed Henry de Bliseworth, a canon of the House, his proxy, to excuse his attendance. Upon searching the Rolls of Chancery, it appeared that the abbat of this convent had been called to parliament once only before, in the 49th Hen. III. having however been never inrolled, and holding nothing of the king in capite, or by barony, but in frank almoigne, and as a parliamentary attendance would greatly impoverish the convent and monks, the Lord Chancellor permitted his name to be struck out of the chancery register.b

In 1534, John Dusset, the abbat, and eight monks, subscribed to the king's supremacy.

1d. In Lithebar, in terris, 17. 48. In Bosegate, Eston, Hecham, et Craneford in terris redd. deducend. 41. 78. 7d. Ibidem in fruct. greg. et animal. 48. 5d. In West Haddon de pratis, 10s. In Watford, in pratis, redd. terris, et redd. pastur. 67. 158. Ibidem in fruct. greg. et animal. 128. 10d. In Geyton et Tyffeld in terris redd. et pitanc. 8s. 8d. In Decanat. Rutl. 4s. In Archid. Leic. 87.

Taxat. P. Nic. IV. pp. 38 b, 48 b, 53, 53 b, 54, 54 b, 55, 55 b, 67, 73.

b Selden's Tit. of Hon. p. 731.

In the Survey of the 26th Hen. VIII. the gross amount of the revenues of this abbey amounted to 2137. 17s. 24d.: the clear income to 175l. 8s. 23d. The Surrender of this abbey, dated August 25th, 1539, is still remaining in the Augmentation Office; signed by the abbat and five monks. The Scite was granted in the 37th Hen. VIII. with the demesne lands, a wood called the Great Grove, and the profits of St. James's fair, to Nicholas Giffard, in whose family they remained for several generations.

The following is a List of the

ABBATS of ST. JAMES, NORTHAMPTON, partly from Bridges's History, and partly from Records.

RALPH presided here in 1158. During his government the church and abbey were new built, and the situation changed. In 1173 the monks, quitting their former habitation, took possession of their new house. He died in 1176. 22 Hen. II. and was succeeded by

WILLIAM PAVELY. He sat only four years, and dying in 1180, had

WALKELIN DE DUSTON his successor; upon whose death in 1205, 7th Joh.

when

THOMAS was elected abbat. Upon his decease ADAM DE DUSTINE succeeded, in 1220; who dying in 1231, the vacancy was supplied by WALTER DE MELTON. He died May 27th, 1237; He died May 27th, 1237; OSBERT DE LUFFENHAM succeeded. Upon his resigADAM GILLY, GRILL, or GRIW, became abbat in 1241. JOHN DE LOU was admitted on the death of Gilly, in 1269.

nation

ADAM DE KEYLMERS, or KEYEMERSH, succeeded; at whose decease in 1274,

RALPH DE HECHAM, or HEGHAM, became abbat. NICHOLAS DE FLORA, who succeeeded Hecham in 1298, sat till 1334.

GERARD DE COMBES, his successor, received the temporalities Sept. 19th, 1355; and died in 1358: when

WILLIAM DE THORPE Succeeded. The temporalities were restored to him April 2d, 1353. He died in 1378. JOHN CAYNHO received the temporalities 23 July 1378: and held the office till his death in 1410: when

JOHN BACON was admitted. He received the temporalities May 28th, 1410. On his decease in 1430

• Tanner's References to other Manuscripts and Records are as follow: "Vide Collect. magistri... Vincent ex libro hujus abbatiæ olim penes magistrum Rob. Tanfeld de... Templo London. MSS. in bibl. Coll. Armorum Lond, n. 218. p. 37. n. 402. p. 49, &c. Cartas quamplurimas originales, rotulos, computos, &c. ad istam abbatiam specantes penes r. v.. Gifford nuper rectorem eccl. paroch. de Russel in agro Wilton. Collect, e Cartulario hujus cœnobii MS. in bibl. Bodl. Dodsworth, vol. lxi. fol. 120. vol. cii. fol. 71. in Museo Ashmol. 844. 4.

"Cart. antiq. H. n. 18. Fin. Northamt. 8 Ric. I. n.. pro terris in Duston. Fin. Northamt. 24 Hen. III. n.. pro eccl. S. Joan. de Cranford. Cart. 52 Hen. III. m. 6. pro feria apud Northampton. Cart. 18 Edw. I. n. 11. pro eccl. de Wichleia et Watchford. Pat. 31 Edw. I. m.. Pat. 33 Edw. I. p. 2, m.. Pat. 34 Edw. I. m.. Pat. 8 Edw. II. p. 1, m. 11. confirm. donationis R. Edw. I. de domo in Northampton quæ fuit Schola Judæorum. Pat. 10 Edw. II. p. 1, m. 30. pro eccl. de Horton, Thorp, et Sprotton, et terris in Wulmershale, &c. Pat. 13 Edw. II. m. 28. pro mess. terris in Boseyate et Duston. Pat. 19 Edw. II. p. 1, m. 15. de terris in Boseyate, et bosco de Hyrnwood; p. 2, m. 5. Plac. apud Northamt. 3 Edw. III. assis. rot. 43 dorso, pro terris in Flora. &c. Ibid. quo war. rot. 10. de appropr. eccl. de Sprotton. Cart 10 Edw. III. n. 25. Plac. coram reg. 25 Edw. III. Trin. rot. 6. Pat. 32 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 18. pro mess. voc. St. James's End. Pat. 33

JOHN WATFORD, alias MARGYORY, succeeded. Upon his death

WILLIAM YOUNG became abbat. He is probably the same person whom Cole in one of his MSS. vol. xxvi. fol. 226 b. calls WILLIAM YON, and says he occurs in 1446.

JOHN GRANTWELL or BRAUNTEWELL, received the temporalities Oct. 30th, 11 Edw. IV. He died in 1476, and was succeed by

JOHN WEEKLY, or WYKELEY.

HENRY COKKYs received the temporalities 1 Feb. 15 Hen. VII. He died in 1532.

JOHN DASSET was the next abbat. His successor, the last abbat of this monastery, was

WILLIAM BROCKDEN, by whom it was given up to the

crown.

The REGISTER of this Abbey, from which Bridges selected his chief information, in the sad fire of the Cottonian Library in 1731, was reduced to a crust. It consisted formerly of two hundred and forty-one leaves. Its title in Smith's Catalogue was Tiber E. v. "Liber Chartarum cum confirmationibus Regum, &c. cum omnibus libertatibus ad ecclesiam S. Jacobi extra Northamptonam spectantibus; conditas A.D. 1313."a

Tanner has given the ARMS of this Monastery, party per pale Ar. and Gu. an Escallop Shell Or. The same Arms occur for this Abbey in the Lansdowne MS. 255. fol. 13 b. with Sa. instead of Ar.

An impression of the COMMON SEAL is appendant to the Surrender in the Augmentation Office, for an account. of which see Baker's History of Northamptonshire, part 1st. p. 150. where it is engraved.

The following is Bridges's Account of the small Remains of St. James's Abbey as they existed in his time:

"The Site of Church and Churchyard contains about two acres; and the Abbey demesnes lay on both sides of the Road which leads to Banbury. Going down to the Abbey is a causey called Cut-throat lane, with the old wall upon the left. In a close adjoining was a Mill supplied by a Spring now called the Abbey Spring. In this close was kept St. James's Fair; and formerly there were standing in it a barn and door house; and here is supposed to have stood the Abbey itself. Westward is a wall of ashler stone, near which are the foundations of Buildings.b

Edw. III. p. 1, m. 9. Pat. 36 Edw. III. p. 2, m. 11. Pat. 16 Ric. II. p. 1, m. 32. pro mess. et terris ibid. et in Boseyate, Wihele, Duston, &c. Claus. 4 Hen. IV. m. 18. pro feria apud abbatiam. Pat. 4 Hen. IV. p. 2, m. 24. pro feria ibidem per tres dies. Assis. in com. Northamt. 5 Hen. IV. rot. 19. pro reddit. in Nether Heyford. Pat. 19 Hen. VI. p. 3, m. 19 vel 20. Pat. 20 Hen. VI. p. 3, m. 17. pro ten. in Lichbarow et Furdingstone. Pat. 22 Hen. VI. p. 2, m. 9. de fundatione per Will. Peverell com. Nottingh. pro exoneratione de corrodio versus dominum regem. Pat. 33 Hen. VI. p. 1, m. . Pat. 17 Edw. IV. p. 2, m. 18.”

See also Rot. Hundr. vol. ii. pp. 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 330. Abbrev. Plac. pp. 323, 325. Plac. de Quo War. p. 570.

Among the charters given to the British Museum by the late Lord Frederick Campbell is one x. 3. Carta Henrici Cocks abb. S. Jac. juxta N..et Thomæ Vaus de Harodon, Petro Crewyn capellano, de Cantaria de Norton Davy cum pertin. 15 Hen. VIII.

In the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office in the Exchequer is "Finis solut. per Abb. et Conv. S. Jac. Northampt. pro confirmatione Cartæ pro feria apud Northampton extra Abbatiam tenenda." Orig. 11 Hen. VIII. rot. 56.

There is a Paper Survey temp. Hen. VIII. of the possessions of this abbey in the Augmentation Office. In the King's Remembrancer's Office also is a Decree respecting the Tithes of the Scite of St. James s Abbey, &c. Trin. Term. 2 Jac. II. Bridges, ut supr. p. 503.