On f. 41 b is given, after other forms, 'Testamentum in extremis,' beginning: 'In dei nomine. Amen. vltimo die mensis Junij Anno dni millmo ccccm xxmo Ego Wills Kyngysmylle de Oxon...'

This is followed by a codicil, dated 'xxvito die Decembris Anno dni, &c. hiis testibus; and an Inventory of goods taken after his death, and dated 'vicesimo die mensis Decembris A° dni millimo ccccmo &c.' which appears to be imperfect.

On a scrap of parchment at the beginning is a copy of 'Inquicicio coram Justic' pacis dni Regis,' dated ‘Oxon. die lune infra Octob. Pasch. A° regis henrici VI post conquestum octauo...' On the back of this piece, in a hand of about the same period as the rest, is,

Est | ori | West | occi | Borias | North | Sowth | petit

A small quarto, on paper, consisting of 55 leaves, unpaged, each page consisting of about 20 lines: written in a very late hand, probably of the xvi1th century; without title or author's

Hi octo modi his versiculis comprehenduntur.

1. Affectum; 2. quantum; 3. vestitum; 4. dic velut aurum. 5. Membrum; 6. contentum; 7. possessio; 8. vir mulierem. Plures forsan modi istis possunt addi, sed hi quos recensuimus sunt vulgares et præcipui.

The whole work is a collection of mere skeletons, which it would be useless to describe further.

287

288

289

290

Dd. v. 48.

See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

Dd. v. 49.

1. A paper book, in quarto.

PRECEDENTS RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

74 ff. with 8 leaves of Index.

Contains forms of warrants, indentures, recognizances, liçences, commitments, &c.

2. 13 pages of a copy-book, apparently belonging to LetTITIA WALSALL.'

3. A copy of 'ORDERS AGREED UPON FOR THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION at Acle, the 10th of May, 1611.'

On the last page occurs the name of Anthony Parmenter,' in whose handwriting the book appears to be.

A paper book, in quarto.

Dd. v. 50.

Contains notes of READINGS delivered during the years 16021610, by Ley, Crue, Hubbert, Bawtry, Hitchcocke, Trefuze, Prowd, Denham, Delabere, Moore, Methwold, Diggs, Tucker, and Waltham.

Also 12 leaves of notes from law cases in the reigns of Ed. VI. and Eliz.

Dd. v. 51.

Two paper books, in quarto, in the same handwriting; one paged from 109 to 196, the other from 198 to 228.

In binding, the latter has been placed first. Notes of READINGS by Tanfield, Warde, Mallett (1626).

At p. 150, My relacon to the Benche of M Mallets Readings.' Also of readings by Bartlett, Franckline, Clarke, Jermyn (1629), Lane, Cowpers, Townsende, Pepis, Bears, and Palmer (1639).

At p. 154, ‘My relacon to the Benche of M' Bartletts readings.' At the end are some blank leaves, and an address to the Reader (Turner?) at the close of his lectures.

A small quarto, on parchment, containing ff. 333 in double columns of 57 lines in each column. Date, the xivth century.

BIBLIA VULGATA SANCTI HIERONYMI.

After the usual prologues Genesis begins, and the books of the Old Testament follow in the usual order, Maccabees ending f. 273 b. The whole of St Matthew, and St Mark as far as ch. ix. 25, 'ita ut multi dicerent quia est mortuus' is torn out. The books of the New Testament follow as usual, except that the Acts is after the Epistle to the Hebrews. There are minute scholia throughout. The Revelation ends f. 332 a, and a list of passages 'de ymaginibus' follows. On the last leaf a later hand has written,

Ad perpetuam rei memoriam notandum est, quod dominus Robertus Stapelhill nuper rector ecclesie de Goodle in Com. Devon. languens in extremis noluit hunc librum vendi, sed dari alicui literato et continue derivari et transferri a viro in virum et saltim indigenti: nec venditione detur tradi, nisi major ingruerit penuria et paupertas. Oret assidue occupans pro anima illius. Et predictus Robertus Oxon. obiit in festo sancte Praxedis, viz in nocte Marie Magdalene anno domini millesimo cccc°. quinquagesimo octavo.

And below,

O quanta abusio, quanta perversitas, quod ossa sanctorum exponuntur ad questum

Ut qui omnes pecunias respuerunt vivi cogantur mendicare jam

A small quarto, on paper, 146 leaves, double columns, 36 lines in each for the first 92 leaves, and then only about 28 lines for the remainder, the latter half of the MS. damaged by damp, otherwise in good preservation.

A fly-leaf of parchment contains two or three receipts in Latin and English.

The second leaf is the commencement of a Botanical Dictionary,

Beginning:

Hic incipit sinonoma herbarum.

Ending on the same page:

Amsericon v. herba perforata, herba Johannis.

1. After several pages, blank, except for two recipes, one in English, the other Latin, the MS. begins f. 10. It is ornamented with red letters, but most of the initial letters are wanting.

T

The colophon supplies the title

'RADIX MEDICINARUM.'

This is a work in three books with a short preface, and appears to be by John Arderne, the author of § 2.

The preface begins:

[Q]uoniam ut ait Platearius in principio sue practice 'Amicum induit qui partibus amicorum condescendit.'

The first two books treat of the pathology of the four regions of the body in order, beginning with the head.

First Book, Cap. I.

De infirmitatibus prime regionis sive capitis, Allopicia est infirmitas capillorum, &c.

It contains 38 chapters and discusses the first two regions.

The second book begins (p. 68) 1st column. There seems to be a clerical error in the rubrical reading "Secunda Regio.”

Begins:

De Fastidio Stomachi, containing 35 chapters. Ends:

Explicit Cirurgia, Incipit de Febribus (p. 119). The treatise on Fevers contains 18 chapters. Ending (p. 159):

Nunc finem feci, penitet me si male scripsi. Explicit Radix Medicinarum.

The black ink at the foot of the several pages has suffered much from damp, the red is quite uninjured. In the blank space on the last two pages a later hand has added a table of contents of all the above.

2. This contains 110 pages, nearly corresponding with the foregoing, saving it has fewer lines in the page. At p. 52 a diagram is wanting.

Extracta de libro Magistri Joannis Arderne in practica sua contra omnem guttam unguentum probatum etc.

It contains several recipes and some charms; at p. 66 it proceeds to treat of the signs of the Zodiack and their virtues, with the following rubrick:

Interpretatio 12 Signorum.

It is followed by a scheme for calculating lunations.

At p. 72 begins

De Retardatione senectutis secundum Rogerum Bakon.

At p. 78,

Incipit Tractatus de virtutibus lapidum pretiosorum. They are described alphabetically. Adamas est lapis, &c.

p. 96. De anulo et aliis speciebus.

p. 97. An alphabetical index of foreign herbs and spices, De asa fetida, &c.

p. 106. De regimine salutis. In Hexameters.
Beginning:

Ending:

Anglorum regi scripsit tota scola Salerni
Flores doctrine compilate medicine

Si vis incolumem si vis te reddere sanum
Escas linque graves, &c.

de Escula.

Escula dura bona, set mollia sunt meliora.
The MS. closes with a charm by another hand,

pro morsu canis rabidi.

John Arderne lived in the xivth century, in Newark in Nottinghamshire. None of his works seem to have been printed except one on Fistula in a translation by John Read (1588): 'Ce qui doit d'autant plus étonner que cet ouvrage est peut-être aussi utile qu'aucun de ceux qui aient été écrits sur cet profession dans ces temps-là, excepté celui de Guy de Chauliac.' See Dictionnaire Historique de Médicine. Paris, 1828.

A paper book, in quarto, of 40 pages, bound up with No. 292, written in a neat hand about 1620.

'Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecæ Johanensis quo libri (quotquot ibi extant) Alphabetice disponuntur secundum quatuor facultates.'

This is a somewhat earlier catalogue than No. 284, but the books are divided into the same classes which are described on the title page, though they occur in a different order. At the end is a list of duplicates and 'opera supervacua.'

A small quarto, on parchment, containing 93 leaves, with 28 lines in a page: the handwriting large and good, of the xivth century; the titles of the chapters rubricated; leaves numbered (beginning at f. 4), and marginal notes added in pale yellow ink in the xvith century. From the numbering it appears that eight leaves are wanting between ff. 80, 81.

Treatises by Richard Rolle of Hampole.

1. ff. 1-80. Without title, and imperfect, SCALA PERFECTIONIS, a treatise on holy life addressed to an anchoress, in 91