Law Courts at St. Alban's (Vol. i., p. 366.).
—I beg to send a copy of a Latin inscription discovered some years since over the west door inside the great nave of St. Alban's Abbey. It may possibly prove to be a record of some historical value, and at all events furnishes a partial reply to the Query of Σ. in your First Volume:—
"Propter vicinii situm, et amplum hujus Templi spatium ad magnam confluentium multitudinem excipiendam opportunum, temporibus R. H. VIII. et denuo R. Elizabethæ, peste Londini sæviente, Conventus Juridicus hic agebatur."
Underneath this is written,—
"Princeps Dei Imago Lex Principis opus
Finis Legis Justitiâ."
Can any of your learned correspondents clear up the nature and extent of these fear-stricken flights to the old abbey? Was it the Commons, or Westminster Hall, or the Convocation, or all together, avoiding the plague? I may observe that our ancestors seem to have put to some practical use the vast space of an abbey-church on extraordinary occasions; and I would humbly suggest that we too of the nineteenth century might take the hint, and employ the many unoccupied naves of our ecclesiastical buildings for religious purposes on ordinary occasions.
W. M. K.
The Fifteen O's (Vol. iii., p. 391.).
—They are sometimes called St. Bridget's Prayers. I have a very small volume entitled: