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Essex, which pious gift was followed by many others, of a very extensive nature, from the sovereigns who succeeded him in these realms. The fraternity belonging to this church, although not Monks, or " Religious," as they were designated, yet lived together in a communityf after the manner of monks, and consisted originally ofa Dean, or Superior, and thirty Regular Canons, clergymen, each one of whom was required to have an assistant vicar in the choir, a person regularly appointed in holy orders. " Quisque habuit vicarium, hominem in sacris ordinibus constitutum."f This establishment being formed under the special direction of St. Augustine, was governed wholly by the Augustine rules. " Se- cundum Divi Augustini Regulam, facultatibus in commune J collatis, communiter vixerunt, in Erkinwald, also, fourth Bishop of London from Mellitus, augmented the revenues of St. Paul's very much from his own estate ; as also did Edgiva, a noble-woman. Maurice, Bishop of London, gave to the church for the service of the altar, viz. for bread and wine for the sacrament, the rent of his new wharf upon the River Thames (Paul's Wharf), and other valuable gifts. William the Conqueror gave the castle of Storford, and other valuable privileges.—Doomsday Boole. Eusebius, Bishop of Verceil, first introduced the monastic rule to the manner of living among Clerks. We must not confound the Clerks, who lived in community under the direction of their Bishop, with Monks. They were not Monks, but borrowed their way of living in common (under St. Martin and St. Augustine), being for that no less serviceable to the church. Monks had possession, however, of many of our Cathedrals in the earliest times, and were the constituted Canons thereof: they were finally ejected from them by Richard the First, and Cl...