460. p. 185. Major et Aldermanni civitatis London. Burgo magistro scabino et consulibus oppidi Dordracensis, "pro reformatione cujusdam contemptus contra certas literas testimoniales inhumaniter perpetrati," literas civitatis London diffamavit et flocci fecit quidam J. W. in curia Dordracensi, rogant igitur, ut eundem J. W. castigent et lubrica ejus labia silentii munimento compescant.

461. p. 186. "Litera" eorundem "excusatoria" majori et consulibus civitatis Ollexben, pro frumento non deducendo extra regnum" quia a rege prohibitum est, A. D. 1424.

462. "Litera pro damnis condignam emendam habere:" scilicet ut justa compensatio decernatur marinariis quibusdam ultra conventionem in portubus Normanniæ cum navibus suis detentis. 463. "Litera" eorundem "excusatoria Burgomagistro scabino et consulibus villæ Brugensis, "de debito" in civitate London "soluto, et post solutionem injuste" apud Bruges "repetita."

464. "Litera regratiatoria missa per episcopum London. civibus ejusdem civitatis."

465. p. 188. "Exhortatio facta cuidam episcopo ad condonandum cuidam pauperrimo viro in causa debiti," nempe mercatori, qui vina Burdegalia in usum episcopi comparavit, et propter incautam emptionem, caristiam et invalitudinem vinorum, et diuturnas et inopinatas mercatorum moras in deliberatione vinorum, in penurion delapsus est.

466. Episcopi cujusdam ad alterum episcopum "pro favore adhibendo cuidam presbitero in adeptione offici sive beneficii ecclesiastici" prioratus scilicet sive prepositure collegii Kalendarum in Bristollia.

467. p. 189. "Episcopi cujusdam (vide supra 465) excusatoria, quod non fuit causa destructionis certæ personæ;" remittit tamen 30 nobilia auri de summa debiti.

468. Majoris et Aldermannorum civitatis London ad R. episcopum Londinensem, "quo modo filii languescunt in absentia patris spiritualis.

469. p. 190. "Ad patrem spiritualem pro certificatione valituræ ejus ad filios spiritualis intimanda :" eorundem ni fallor ad eundem episcopum.

470. Legatorum regis Franciæ ad legatos regis Angliæ, pro conventione fienda in tractatu pacis, et pro salvo conductu concedendo.

471. p. 192. Cujusdam oppidi subditione ducis Burgundiæ ad civitatem London "pro restitutione fienda de certis bonis injustæ captis, et emendis reddendis pro diversis transgressionibus."

472. p. 193. Civitatis London "excusatoria de certis injuriis in civitate perpetratis et gubernatoribus ejusdem minime cognitis.' 473. "Civitatis London ad relaxandam certam quantitatem vinorum injuste arrestatam."

474. "Responsio regraciatoria ad patrem spiritualem pro litera filiis suis prius missa."

475. p. 195. "Litera excusatoria " Majoris etc. London. Ballivis et probis hominibus villæ G. "de verbis reprehensibilibus in publico perhibitis in dishonoracionem unius communitatis:" testimonium perhibent major et aldermanni concivem suum nihil tale fuisse locutum.

476.

"Propter manus adjutrices apponendas ad reedificationem scholæ theologiæ."

477. p. 196. Major etc. London. Burgomagistro scabinis et consulibus de Brile "pro restitutione fienda de certis vinis violenter captis."

478.

"Pro exhibitione scholaris intuitu elemosinæ," supplicatio scolaris ad magistrum.

479. p. 197. R. episcopi London. "missa" majori vicecomitibus et aldermannis ejusdem civitatis "de electione" Martini V "summi pontificis."

480.

p. 198.

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Responsio literæ precedentis."

481. p. 199. "Ad promovendam causam alterius versus aliam personam condignam" commendat scriptor epistolæ cuidam episcopo causam J. B. aldermanni Londinensis.

482. "Certificatio quod quis resignavit beneficium suum:” epistola est notificatoria, quod quidam resignavit ecclesiam etc. quodque presidens et socii collegii eligerunt eum, cui scripta est epistola, in magistrum; quo cognito custodibus communitatis mistere mercerie London, ipsi eundem priori et capitulo ecclesiæ Cantuar. nominarunt ad ecclesiam illam presentandum.

483. p. 203. Testimonium majoris civitatis London "contra diffamacionem quod quis non fuit alienigena et (sed) sub ligeancia domini regis."

484. p. 204. "Contra malam diffamacionem, quod mulier non intoxicavit maritum suum."

485. (6

Qua causa M. devenit in paupertatem."

486. p. 205. "Quod simul abligatus solvit creditori debitum alterius obligati."

487. "Quod nullum arbitrium factum fuit:" lite inter partes exorta asserebatur ex una parte, quod ambæ se submiserint stare ordinationi et judicio majoris, et quod ille decretum et arbitrium vel concordiam non fecisse, nec unquam de submissione partium audivisse.

488. p. 206. "Contra malam furti diffamacionem."
489.

"Contra diffamacionem hominis tenti pro homicida." 490. p. 207. "Quod aliquis debet per duas obligationes."

491. Contra malam diffamacionem pro uxore alicujus non vivente; hominem scilicet alibi uxoratum nunquam habuisse aliam uxorem in civitate London degentem.

492. p. 209. Majoris etc. London "contra malam suggestionem pro homine in plena vita existente."

493.

494.

"Quod unus debit alii £40 quas solvit pro ipso: et quod unus debuit alteri certam summam in vita sua."

495. "Quod nullum arbitrium fuit factum."

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II. Then follows an English prose treatise, in a hand of the xvth century, the colophon (p. 264) supplying the title :

TRACTATUS DE CONCLUSIONIBUS ASTROLABII compilatus per GALFRIDUM CHAUCIERS ad filium suum Lodewicum, scolarem tunc temporis Oxonie sub tutela illius nobilissimi philosophi, magistri N. Strode etc.: imperfect at the end.

Begins (p. 212):

Litell lowys my sone, I haue perceiued well by certeyne euidences thine abilite to lerne sciences...

Respecting Strode, see Warton, ш. 165, ed. 1840. The treatise was written in 1391, and is printed (without the diagrams) in Chaucer's Works, ed. Urry, pp. 439, sq.

Dd. II. 54.

See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

Dd. I. 55.

A parchment roll, written in the former half of the xvth century, 12 ft. long and 1 ft. wide, containing

A GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL TABLE from Adam to the time of the Apostles.

The author is, in a later hand, said to have been Roger Alban a Carmelite Friar. For a fuller account of him and of the present MS. see Tanner, Biblioth. p. 640.

Dd. I. 56.

A second copy of the above MS. somewhat damaged.

At the back are genealogical trees, hands, &c. intended to convey moral and spiritual lessons, and a series of concentric circles containing the Lord's Prayer, &c.

Dd. III. 57.

A roll of parchment, 21 feet long, in good preservation.

A GENEALOGY OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, from Ethelbert to Richard II. and Henry IV. written in old French. Each person is represented by a drawing inclosed in a circle. It was apparently written in the reign of Hen. IV. It is defended by a leather cover.

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Dd. ш. 58.

A roll of parchment, 8 feet 5 inches long, in good preservation.

A GENEALOGY OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND from Harold II. to Hen. VI. with rather elaborately finished drawings of each person inclosed severally in circles. The roll has been longer, for a part of the commencement was cut off at some former period. The first imperfect lines relate to the reign of Edward the Confessor.

It is very clearly written in old French.

Dd. III. 59.

A roll of vellum, 10 feet 4 inches long, in good preservation.
A GENEALOGY OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND from Alfred to
Hen. III. It is headed CRONICON ANGLIE, written very clearly
in Latin, and of the date apparently of the reign of Hen. III.

A roll of vellum, 11 feet 8 inches long, in good preservation. THE ARMS OF THE LORDS IN PARLIAMENT, A.D. 1515, as is deduced from the fact that Wolsey is entered as Archbishop of York and Cardinal, and Warham as Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor.

The arms are arranged in two rows, after those of the king, which stand at the top, the bishops and abbots in one row and the temporal peers in the other, with the exception of the Cardinal Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Durham, whose arms head the temporal column. There are 11 bishops and 12 abbots and 22 temporal peers. The arms are beautifully emblazoned. At the top is written in a contemporary hand, in A° vi. Parleamentum.' On a piece of parchment attached to the top is written, 'Ex dono Roberti Lloyd de Cheame in Agro Surriensi. Aul. Pemb. Soc. 1702.'

Dd. III. 60.

A roll, consisting of 10 pieces of parchment, about 9 inches in width, and containing the record of

ELECTIO ABBATIS MONASTERII DE KAYNSHAM Anno. R. Henr. VIIIvi. Angl. xvi1o.'

From the contents of the roll it appears that the king's letters were issued from Richmount 16 April, 17. H. 8. (1526) for the election of a successor, John Sturton, to William Rolffe, who had died on 2 April.

The document is referred to by Tanner, Not. Mon. (ed. 1787) Somersetshire. XXVIII.