81.

82.

Statutum de wardis et releviis.

Nove ordinationes Edwardi filii regis Edwardi.

87. De officio seneschalli, ballivi et præpositi in French. Vid. Dd. VII. 6. art. 53.

88. 'Ceo est le ordeinement de hosobonderie en totes maneres et de estor et de mesuu guieer.' (sic.)

Begins (f. 252):

Le piere soit en sa veilesce et dit a sun fiz. Beau fiz viuez sagement...

Ends:

...car home dit a reproueer ky regarde sun desert si il ne gayne rien ne perd. Explicit.

89.

90.

6

Extenta manerii.

Extenta manerii de Staunton Harecourt.

91. Cirurgia Equorum.' 8 leaves.

A small folio, on paper, of 33 leaves, of which 8 are blank, written in xvIIth or xvIIIth century.

1. ff. 1-4. Sensus ultima Visionis Ezechiel Literalis ex Vitruvio lib. de Architectura et aliis, præcipue ex vocibus in fonte Hebræo erutus.'

After this is inserted a sheet containing a plan of Ezechiel's temple.

D D

527

528

2. ff. 5-9. 'Sensus Ezech. misticus ex collatione Novi Testamenti erutus.'

Begins :

Tres sunt Ezechiel visiones...

Ends:

..necessario intelligendum.

ff. 10-17 are blank.

3. ff. 18-31. A Treatise of the Sacrifice of Prayer.'
With many marginal notes in English, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
Begins:

Concerning a threefold spiritual sacrifice...

Ends:

The Lord open our eyes, that we may see the Wonders of his law. Amen.

This is bound up with the two next MSS.

Dd. IX. 40.

A small folio, on paper, of 37 leaves.

A translation of the eighth chapter of Claude's Treatise on Composition of a Sermon: followed by brief summaries of all the chapters.

The first part of the MS. will be found Dd. n. 32.

Begins :

To the three mentioned ...

Ends:

... and ends the Treatise.

Dd. ix. 41.

A small folio, on paper, containing 157 leaves unpaged, in double columns, each column containing about 55 lines, neatly written in a very late hand, probably of the xvi1th century.

Begins :

LEXICON LATINO-GRECUM.

A, ab: ἀπὸ, ἐκ, ἐξ, πρὸς, παρὰ, ὑπό.

Ends:

Zythum, zythus, (potus quidam): (veòv (vós.

μόνῳ τῷ θεῷ δόξα.

The work quotes no authors by name, and in general merely renders Latin words by their Greek equivalents. It contains marginal additions, probably made from time to time by the compiler.

A thin paper book, in folio, on 55 pages besides the two leaves of the contents and title.

'ETRENNES ou Conseils d'un Homme de Qualité à sa fille.' This is in the same handwriting as No. 316, § 1, with many corrections interlineated.

530

531

Dd. IX. 43.

A paper book, in folio, bound up with the preceding, and containing

A large collection of copies of LETTERS, COMMISSIONS and ORDERS, written to or by Sir Anthony Oldfeild relating to county business, to levying taxes, raising forces, &c. in the years 1660— 1667, with Lists of his Majesty's Navy in 1664 and 1666.

From the contents of the volume the collection appears to have been made by Sir Anthony Oldfeild. On a waste leaf is 'Begun this booke Oc. 8. 1660.' And on another are the shield of Charles Boules of Louth, and the arms of SW Carr and Bridget, Da. of S Richard Chanworth impaled. After another waste leaf the succeeding 65 pages are numbered.

Towards the end of the volume, after some blank leaves, are 'Spalding— Benefactors to the Library begun at Michaelmas 1628,' with a catalogue of the books therein.

Three pages with the heading, 'The manner of planting and cultivating vineyards at Bacharach,' with the note 'I had this from my very good friend Nicholas Bowman.' Records of county business follow.

Dd. Ix. 44.

A folio, on paper, of 188 leaves, in double columns.

A Common-place Book, chiefly filled with Geographical and Historical notes and references.

On the first page is the note,

"This MS. is in the Handwriting of Mr John Smith sometime Fellow of Queens Coll. in Cambridge, Author of several Discourses published after his death by my Father.' [J. Worthington.]

A paper book, in folio, written about 1680.

1. An alphabetical CATALOGUE of Books ending with Mede.

533

2.

At the end of the book reversed are 36 leaves, containing copies and forms of various Indentures, Articles, Agreements, &c.

The first three leaves reversed contain an alphabetical catalogue of 'Nomina virorum Anglice et Latine per tres casus variata' from Aaron to Harold.

534

Dd. IX. 46.

A folio, on paper, of 110 leaves; generally written on one side only.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S LUCASIAN LECTURES, DE MOTU CORPORUM.'

A full description of this MS.
Correspondence with Cotes, p. xcv.

is given by Mr Edleston in Newton's See also Dd. iv. 18.

Dd. IX. 47.

A folio, on paper, 189 ff., handwriting of the period. Proceedings in the Prerogative Court between John Owsley and Robert Wilcox, relative to the will of Mary Owsley. 1666.

A.D.

535

536, 537

Dd. xx. 48.

A folio, on paper, of 238 leaves, in good preservation.

'LIBER DIMISSIONUM incipiens anno XXIX. Regine Elizabeth.' The entries are continuous from that date until 5 Jac. I., but the latter part is written in a different hand. The book relates to the crown estates.

Dd. ix. 49, 50.

See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

A paper book, in folio, containing on the first 60 leaves,

A CATALOGUE of Books in the Library of Rufford belonging

to my Lord Marquiss of Halifax in the year 1693.'

A square folio, on vellum, of 160 leaves, 25 lines in a page, catchwords at every eighth leaf: of the xivth century.

1. ff. 1-8 a.

'EPISTOLA AURELII EPISCOPI SANCTI AUGUSTINI AD CIRILLUM PRESBITERUM DE TRANSITU JERONIMI.'

Begins:

Gloriosissime Christiane...

Ends:

Vale in dño et ora pro me.

Aug. Opp. Paris, 1836, Vol. 11. App. pp. 1412—1421.

To this is appended a paragraph, 'Historia subsequens narrat qualiter illa pars Ligni sancte crucis Christi remanens in Jerusalem secundum ordinationem Constantini imperatoris et sancte Elene matris ejus ultimo fuit rapta exinde per Saracenos.

Sciendum est quod Godefridus de Bullion... nullus potuit alium videre.' 2. ff. 9-130 b.

'SANCTI ODONIS ABBATIS DE VICIIS ET VIRTUTIBUS ANIME' LIB. III.

Begins (after the Preface, 'Recolitis domine mi ..'):

Auctor igitur et judex homini Deus...

Ends:

This has not been printed but exists in MS. in several libraries. v. Tanner. In f. 130 b is a note relating, that the Holy Spirit appeared to S. Audoen, in the shape of a dove, in answer to his prayer during a thunder-storm.

3. ff. 131-138.

ANSELMI CANTUARIENSIS EPISTOLÆ QUÆDAM, ET EXCERPTA

EX OPERIBUS.

The letters are 1. 29, ш. 133, 101 of Ed. Ben. Paris, 1675. The notes are taken from various parts of his Works and some from his Life, one relating a miracle by which he turned the head of a heretic into stone. f. 135 b.

4. ff. 139-160. MEDITATIONES SANCTI BERNARDI.'

Begins:

Multi multa sciunt...

Ends:

...amabilis appareas.

Opp. Vol. 11. coll. 661-691.