27. Registrum Brevium (fol. 194 a).

28. Royal Grant to the prior of Luffield respecting the forest of Whittlewood (fol. 211 a, col. 2).

29. Memorandum on the same subject (fol. 2116).

30. Articles relating to forests (fol. 212).

31. Memorandum respecting the sale of salt at Thornebergh (fol. 216 a, col. 2).

32. Statutum de mercatoribus editum apud Acton Burnel, anno regni regis Edw. undecimo' (fol. 216b).

33. Notes respecting tenants of land at Thornebergh (fol. 217b).

34. Extract from Domesday Book (ibid.)

35.

Presentation to the vicarage of Thornebergh (ibid.)

36. Statutes of Gloucester (fol. 218 a).

37. Statute [Q]uia emptores' (fol. 219 b).

38. Royal Grant relating to property of John de Salueston (fol. 220 a).

39. Inquiry connected with the above (ibid.)

40. Similar document (ibid.)

41. On the duties of a Seneschallus and Prepositus (fol. 221a).

42. Carta de Perambulationibus' (fol. 224 a).

43. Fasciculus Johannis de Oxonia De Cartis et Contractibus (fol. 225 a): older hand.

Respecting this writer and his work, see Tanner, pp. 567, 568.

44. De computo ordinando (fol. 231 6): handwriting as in § 43.

45. Presentation to the church of Bechampton, A. D. 1308 (fol. 235 a, col. 2).

46. 'Assisa panis' &c. (fol. 235 b).

47. On measures (fol. 236 a).

48.

'Forma electionis Prelatorum' (fol. 237 a).

49. A long treatise, without title, on Writs, &c. (fol. 238 a).

50. Coe est le dite de hosebondrie ke vn sage home fist iadis

ke auoyt anon syre Walt' de Heule' (fol. 251).

Compare Dd. vII. 6, § 54.

51. On weights, &c. (fol. 254 a).

52. Reports of cases (fol. 255 b).

53. Perambulation of Whittlewood forest (fol. 272 a). 54. a. 'Scriptum inter regem Edward et comites et barones de Scocia sibi concessum' (fol. 2726).

Edwardus...priori et conventui de Luffeld salutem mittimus vobis sub

sigillo...

It is dated 'A Northam. le mardi procheyn apres la ascension le an de grace mcc nonaunte primer.'

A touz Iceus ke ceste lettre presente.

The date is the same as that to a, but in this is followed by Vnde vos mandamus qd eadem faciatis in cronicis vris annotari. Teste magro B. de March. Thesaur. nro apud Westm. nono die Julii Anno regni nri decimo

nono.'

55. Litera papalis inter regem Edwardum Anglie et regem Francie' (fol. 273).

Bonifacius...monet animum mentem que sollicitat.

Dated 'Lateran' xı. kl. marcii pontific. nri anno primo.'

56. α. Littera papalis pro clero' (fol. 273 ◊).

Bonifacius...clericis laycos infestos...

Dated, Rome 'vi. Marcii Pontificatus nri anno scdo.'

b. 'Littera papalis contra religiosos mendicantes' (fol. 274). Bonifacius...Quorundam oculos sic vitium...

Without date.

57. Documents relating (ff. 273-4)

a. to the manor of Salveston, granted to the Prior of Luffield, b. to the advowson of Dodeford, disputed by Wm. de Kaynes, c. to the mill at Heyford, 6 Ric.

d. Thomas de Peuenseye rector of Towcestre renounces all claim of dues from the manor of Challdelach in favour of the Prior and convent of Luffield, in the year 1312 (fol. 274).

The copy of the instrument is continued into the margin of the last page. See Dugdale, Monast. iv. p. 345, for some account of Luffield Monastery. On a fly-leaf at the commencement of the MS. is written, in a hand of the xvith century, 'liber Luffield' and 'liber F. Tate ex dono Ro. Cotton mil 28 Nov. 1609.'

891

892

893

Ee. 1. 2.

A paper book, in folio, containing 520 pages, not numbered, and well written in English and French, in a hand of about the XVIIth century.

It consists of two parts:

The first being Lyttleton's Tenures, unfinished, extending only to' Breve de Intrusione.”

The second Lyttleton's De Natura brevium.

At page 320 appears 'Lex plus laudatur quia ratione probatur.' 'This is John Sempeir's book.'

Ee. I. 3.

A folio, on parchment, consisting of ff. 334 numbered up to 262, written apparently by SIMON ELRYNGTON DE HAKENEY,' about the xvth century.

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A COLLECTION OF BRIEFS, PLEADINGS, AND MANDATES. The volume contains also some curious medical recipes, together with the rules of health compiled by Aleyn y god leche." Also the companeys of bestys and foules,' which somewhat differs from that given in the book of St Alban's; together with a ' recitate of the lands and tenements of the Bishop of London,' made A.D. 1448.

On a fly-leaf at the end, 'By me Tamezen Grenham and Alles hir dawter.' For notices of the Elrynton family, see Fuller's Worthies, Middlesex ; Robinson's History of Hackney; Newcourt's Repertorium.

Ee. I. 4.

A quarto, on parchment, of 223 leaves, mostly with 26 lines in a page. Written in the xivth century, except the last 5 leaves, which are of the xvith century, and partly mutilated by mice.

1. ff. 1-126. 'DIONISII AREOPAGITE,' LIBB. VII. viz. de celesti hierarchia, de ecclesiastica hierarchia, de divinis nominibus, de mistica theologia.

The translation is by Joh. Scotus Erigena, and has the Epistle of Pope Nicholas to Charles the Bald, (Oudin. ii. col. 245) the Preface of Anastasius, and two by Scotus himself, in verse and prose, prefixed to it. (See Ussher, Epist. Hibern. Sylloge.) At the conclusion follow

894

'Epistole Dionisii.'

The margin of nearly every page is filled with a copious gloss, in a hand of the xvth century. A note in a still later hand is appended on ff. 126, 127. Another in double columns, on angels, &c. fills f. 128.

2. ff. 129-218. 'Johannis presbiteri Damasceni, qui Mansur, liber in quo est tradicio certa orthodoxie fidei, et a Burgundione judice cive Pisano de Greco in Latinum domino tertio Eugenio b. m. pape translatus.' Imperfect.

The margins of the first 33 leaves are filled with 'Scholia Allidorensis 'Opp. Bas. 1575. pp. 1–394.

The remainder of the MS. is occupied with notes in a later hand on various points in divinity: chiefly relating to angels, their nature, office, &c.

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Ee. 1. 5.

A parchment book, in quarto, containing ff. 275 together with pages of index, in a handwriting of about the xivth century.

The following Catalogue appears on the 3rd fol.: cf. Ee. 1. 1.
Magna Carta.

Carta de foresta.
Sententia cartarum.

Provisiones de Merton.

Statuta Marleberg.

Statuta Westmon prim.

Statuta Gloucestr.

Explanationes eorundem.

Statutum Westmon secundum.

Statutum de emptoribus terrarum.

Statutum de religiosis.

Articuli contra prohibitionum regis allocutionem.

Regia responsio.

Statutum de bigamis.

Statutum de vocatis ad warentam.

Statutum de actione vasti.

Statutum de mercatoribus.

Wanting from ff. 66 to 193.

Statuta Wyntonie.

Articuli eorundem.

Statutum Exonie.

Officium coronatoris.

Districtiones Scaccarii.

Statuta de Scaccario.

Statutum de justiciariis assign.

Capitula in itinere vetera.

Novi Articuli in Itinere.

Statutum de libertate clamanda.

Statutum de quo waranto.
Statutum de moneta.

Compositio monete et mensure.

Et Ponderis.

Statutum de militibus.

Tractatus de antiquo dominico corone.

Consuetudines et assise de foresta.
Extenta manerii.

Visus Franci Plegii.

Assisa panis et cervisie.

Judicium pillorum et tumberelli.

Modus calumpniandi essonia.

Dies Communes in banco.

Modus de homagio et fidelitate fac.

Statutum de conspiratoribus.

Statutum de recognitoribus assisarum.

Statutum de finibus.

Notabilia.

Summa fet a saver.

(In a modern hand, Secundum Radulph de Hengham.')

Summa Magna Hengham.

Summa Judicium essoniorum.

Summa, Cadit Assisa.

Summa Parva Hengham.

Summa, cum sit necessarium.

Ordo Exceptionum.

Tractatus de Bastardia.

Tractatus Corone.

Placita Corone.

Articuli, in warranto.

Exceptiones generales.

Statuta de Eboraco.

Registrum de Cancellaria.

The name 'Dyue' or 'Dive,' apparently that of a former possessor, occurs in one or two places.