^< mi^. ••-1 •vy;--;,-.;: • ..■.i^V'r':^- ; (Cornell Uniwcrattg ffiihrarg BOUGHT WITH THE rNCOME OF THE FISKE ENDOWMENT FUND THE BEQUESTOF WILLARD FISKE LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY 1868-1863 1905 The date shows when this volume was -taken. To renewthis book cony the caU No. and give to ./- the librarian. HOME USE RULES 0.1. i^Sfe5|...:.... ■ frtHW^^i^^^j^^^O' ■*»■ *. All Books subject to recall All borrowers must regis- ter in the library to borrow books for home use. All books must be re- turned at end of college year for inspection and repairs. ' Limited boolfs must be returned within the fotir wsek limit and not renewed. Students must return all books before leaving town. Officers should arrange for the return of books wanted durmg their absence from town. Volumes of periodicals and g( pamphlets are held in the library as much as possible. For special pur- poses they are given out fca* a limited time. 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FEINTED BY -WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, 8TAMF0KD STEKKT AND CHAEIKG 0K0S8. / PEEFACE The Stowe MSS. were collected early in this century by George Temple Nugent-Grenville, Marquis of Buckingham, and derive their name from having been kept at Stowe, his seat in Buckinghamshire. The majority of them belonged at one time to Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Eecords in the Tower. Astle, who was a zealous collector, died on the 1st December, 1803; and, having been under obligations to the Grenville family, he directed in his will that the Marquis of Buckingham should have the first offer of his library of MSS. for the nominal sum of £500, the next option of purchase on the same terms to be given to the British Museum, of which he was a Trustee. Unfortunately for the Museum, the Marquis exercised his right of pre-emption, and the Astle collection was consequently trans- ferred to Stowe in 1804. The MSS. which formed part of it relate mainly to the history and antiquities of this country ; and, among other matter of interest, they include the valuable series of Anglo-Saxon Charters, Sir H. Spelman's eleventh century Latin Psalter with an Anglo-Saxon Gloss, the eleventh century Register of Hyde Abbey, a number of English Chronicles and Monastic Chartularies, a volume of Homilies in English of the thirteenth century, a fourteenth century MS. of Lives of Saints in English verse, a Wardrobe-book of Edward II., and Inventories of plate, jewels, etc., of Queen Elizabeth ; together with the Hanover Papers, and several other series of state papers and political and private correspondence, and the historical, antiquarian, and miscellaneous collections of Sir Eoger Twysden, John Anstis and Philip Morant. An important addition was soon after made to them by the purchase of the collection of Irish MSS. and MSS. relating to Ireland formed by Charles O'Conor, of Balanagare, co. Eos- common, who died in 1791. 0' Conor's grandson, Dr. Charles iv PEEFACE. O'Oonor, also became Librarian at Stowe, and compiled tbe Cata- logue of the Stowe MSS. which was privately printed in 1818-19.* In 1808 the Marquis of Buckingham further obtained from the Earl of Essex the papers and other MSS. of his ancestor, Arthur Capell, the first Earl. Among them were comprised not only the official correspondence of Lord Essex, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1672 to 1677, but the so-called " Down Survey " of 1677, which recorded the distribution of forfeited lands in Ireland under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. Besides these collections of Astle, O'Conor and Lord Essex, other acquisitions of less extent were made from time to time, both by the Marquis himself and by his son and successor, Eichard, first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. The most important of these were an ancient Irish Missal in a metal case, with other Irish MSS. ; the valuable diplomatic correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Ambas- sador at Paris and Brussels, 1592-1633; the military collections of Generals Jacob, John and Michael Eichards, relating to wars on the continent, etc., 1685-1714; and the correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough with James Craggs, Secretary of State, 1711-1718. The MSS. brought together by these means remained in the library at Stuwe until 1849, when they were in the possession of the second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. In the spring of that year an announcement was made of their approaching sale by auction, and a catalogue of them was printed with that object, divided into 996 lots. The auction, however, never took place. Negotiations having been opened for disposing of the collection privately, the authorities of the British Museum endeavoured to secure it for the nation; but the matter had hardly come under discussion when a definite oifer for the whole was made by the late Earl of Ashburnham and promptly accepted. At Ashburnham Place, in Sussex, whither it was removed, the collection was still kept distinct, forming one of the four which together made up the splendid MS. library of Lord Ashburnham, the other three being known as the Barrels MSS., the Libri MSS., and the Appendix. In 1879, the year following Lord Ashburnham's dtath; his entire library was oifered for sale to the British Museum •* Bihliotheca MS. Stowensis. A Deseriptive Catalogve of the MSS. in the Stowe Lihrarij. By the liev. Charles O'Cunor, ll.V. Twu volumes, 4to. PEErACE. V by his successor, the present Earl. Prom the conditions imposed, nothing then came of this offer ; but the negotiations were re-opened early in 1883, and in the course of the year the purchase of the Stowe MSS., apart from the others, was proposed by the Govern- ment to Parliament, and funds were voted for the purpose. After it had thus become the property of the nation, the collection was no longer kept intact as before. The bulk of it was ordered by the Government to be deposited in the national library, but the MSS. written in the Irish language, together with others relating to Ireland, such as the sixteen volumes of the " Down Survey," were relegated to the Library of the Eoyal Irish Academy in Dublin. The particular MSS. so detached, according to their numbers in the catalogue of 1849, may be seen in the comparative table on p. 813. It must be understood therefore that the present Catalogue does not comprise all the MSS. formerly at Stowe, but only that part of them which came to the Museum. The few Oriental MSS., which are in a different Department in the Museum, are also excluded. When acquired the MSS. were still known by the numbers given to them in the sale-catalogue of 1849. Owing, however, to the gaps caused by the removal of so many to Ireland, and to the fact that one number in some cases comprised a long series of volumes and in others only a single letter or paper, it was impossible to retain the old numeration. The collection in the Museum has accordingly been re-numbered throughout, the total of volumes as now catalogued amounting to 1085, together with 646 charters separately enumerated. As, however, the MSS. have been frequently referred to since 1849 under the old numbers, a table of the latter with the corresponding new numbers is given on p. 813. At the same time, advantage has been taken of the re-numbering to arrange the MSS., so far as was practicable, in classes. A list of these classes, twenty-five in number, will be found on p. vii. ; Class IV., that of History, being further sub- divided into six sections. In most cases the question of proper classification presented little or no difficulty ; but where a volume is made up of several articles on more or less different subjects, it has been assigned to that class to which the major or more important part of its contents seemed naturally to belong. Any inconvenience that may thus arise from the remaining articles being out of place will be obviated by the index. Occasionally also it has been necessary to make a choice between two classes for other reasons : thus the MS. vi PKEFACE. of English metrical Lives of Saints (No. 949) has been placed among poetry, and not with the prose Lives in Class III. The principles of cataloguing followed are in the main the same as those of the sex- ennial catalogues of " Additions to the MSS. in the British Museum." The descriptions, however, are generally fuller, and the collections of historical correspondence and papers in particular are treated in more detail. The index, which has been made as comprehensive as possible, will be contained in a second volume. The compilation of the catalogue has been the work of the Depart- ment generally, Messrs. Jeayes, Bickley, Herbert and Kenyon having borne the greatebt share. For the Anglo-Saxon Charters and the Hyde Eegister Mr. Birch is responsible. The revision has been done by Mr. Warner, Assistant-Keeper, and I have myself revised the descriptions of the Charters. Edward J. L. Scott, Keeper of MSS. 6 June, 1895. TABLE OF CLASSES. I. — ^BiBLE, WITH Bible Histories, Gospel Harmonies, etc. Nos. 1-9 II. — Liturgical Books; Nos. 10-30 .... III. — Theology, with Lives of Saints; Nos. 31-53 IV. — History : — Sect. I. — General and Miscellaneous ; Nos. 54-57 Sect. II.— English ; Nos. 58-83 .... Sect. III.— Foreign ; Nos. 84-103 Sect. IV. — Ecclesiastical ; Nos. 104-131 Sect. V. — State Papers, Diplomatic and Political Correspondence, and Historical Collections Nos. 132-267 Sect. VI. — Political Tracts, Collections, Caricatures, etc. ; Nos. 268-310 v.— Eeyenue ; Nos. 311-328 VI.— Parliament ; Nos. 329-377 VII.— Law; Nos. 378-425 . VIIL— Navy ; Nos. 426-437 IX.— Army; Nos. 438-488 . X. — Public Eecords ; Nos. 489-552 XI. — EoYAL Household, Wardrobe Accompts, Inventories, etc. ; Nos. 553-567 XII. — ^Offices of State, Establishments, etc. ; Nos. 668-577 XIII. — Ceremonials ; Nos. 578-588 .... XIV. — Peerage, Order of the Garter, etc. ; Nos. 589-597 XV. — Visitations and Pedigrees ; Nos. 598-660 . XVI. — Arms and Heraldic Collections ; Nos. 661-742 . XVII. — Private Correspondence, etc. ; Nos. 743-760 XVIII.— Biography, and Personal ; Nos. 761-786 XIX. — Geography, Topography and Local History ; Nos 787-923 XX. — Monastic Chartulaeies, etc. ; Nos. 924-946 1 7 20 32 39 52 59 70 343 364 373 389 410 414 427 447 453 467 472 478 489 511 563 570 610 viii TABLE OF CLASSES. PAGE XXL— Poetry, and Prose Drama; Nos. 947-980 . . .632 XXII. — Prose Works, Philological, Moral, Philosophical, ETC., WITH Literary Collections and Commonplaces; Nos. 981-1015 652 XXIII. — Antiquities, with Collections on Antiquarian and Kindred Subjects, Catalogues and Extracts of MSS., etc.; Nos. 1016-1063 660 XXIV.— Science, including Medical and Cookery Eecipes ; Nos. 1064-1080 685 XXV.— Miscellaneous ; Nos. 1081-1085 . . . .692 Stowe Charters; Nos. 1-646 ...... 695 Table of Numbers in the Sale Catalogue of 1849, compared WITH those in the Present Volume . . . .813 COKRECTIONS. 82. p. 51, art. 13. For Broneben (?), read Col. E[obert] Venables. 145. p. 109, 1. 9. For 1509, read 1536. p. 110, 1.41. J'or 1509, read 1569. 146. p. 116, I.'IO. For gabrilles, read gabulles. 150. p. 127, 1. 4. For the same, read Sir H. Ferrers. 154. p. 137, 1. 7. For Christian, read Charles. 168. p. 171, 1. 17. ] p. 173, artt. 18, 25.1 For Earl of Arundel, read Lord Arundell of p. 174, artt. 30, 36. [ Wardour. p. 175, artt. 40, 41.) 169. p. 181, art. 16. For 1601, read 1607. 172. p. 211, art. 45. For 1511, read 1611. 173. p. 220, artt. 58, 60. For 1612, read 1613. 182. p, 253, artt. 21, 22. For 1668, read 1671. See MS. 180, art. 23. 184. p. 257, 1. 19. For 1651, read 1653. p. 259, art. 17. For Keane, read Keame. 191. p. 276, art. 11. For 1617, read 1671. 268. p. 343, 1. 22. For 16th cent., read 17th cent. 307. p. 362, art. 11. For f. 350, read f. 250. 401. p. 397, 1. 20. For 1613 [4], read 1613. 402. p. 397, art. 1. For 161|, read 1613. 690. p. 499, 1. 4. For Woodward, read Woodard. 696. p. 501, 1. 28. For 2nd, read 3rd. 799. p. 577, art. 18. After July, add 1693. 975. p. 650, 11. 1, 6. For Absolom, read Absalom. 979. p. 650. For Jonsonn, read J6nsson. Ch. 85, p. 715. For Seka, read Leka. Ch. 94. p. 716. For Ondely, read Ondeby. Ch. 114. p. 720. For 4th, read 2nd. CATALOGUE OF THE STOWE MANUSOKIPTS. CLASS I. BIBLE, WITH BIBLE HISTOEIES, GOSPEL HAEMONIES, etc. . The Bible, in Latin : Vulgate version. Preceded by tlie Epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1, " Prater Ambrosius "), and by his preface to the Pentateuch, (f. 3). All the books after the Pentateuch have prefaces prefixed, except Judges, Euth, Psalms, and Song of Songs, while Job, Joel, Jonah, Matthew, and Luke have two prefaces (in the case of Luke one is the author's own preface, which precedes the other), and Amos and Maccabees three. The arrangement of books is regular, except that the Prayer of Manasses is attached to II. Chronicles, without break or division ; and Ezra and Nehemiah are joined as the 1st book of Esdras, while the 1st (apocryphal) Esdras stands as the 2nd. In the New Testament the Acts of the Apostles stands between the Pauline and Catholic Epistles. At the end (f. 426) is a table of Hebrew names with their meanings, sc. Bede's Interpretationes Nominum Sehraicorum (Beda, Opera, ed. 1688, vol. iii. pp. 371-480), and some explanatory notes on each book (arranged in a different order), entitled " glose divinorum librorum " (f. 466). The text in the Gospels in many cases agrees with the readings of the Correctorium Yaticanum [Vercellone N, Wordsworth cor. vat.], which is of the 13th cent. Yellum ; ff. 478. In double columns of 54 lines, xmth cent., probably written in Prance. The initial letter of each book is ornamented with a small, but finely executed, miniature, and larger initials extending the full height of the text are on ff. 1, 3 b, 842 b ; initials of chapters are in red and blue. On the last leaf is written * 2 STOWE MSS., 2-4. a bequest of the volume by John Chevrot de Polignac, Bishop of Toumay [1437-1460], to his godson John, son of Peter Falquerius, dated 1458, and attested by the signature " De Butoville." Below is the signature " Le Gouz," as subsequent owner, and on f. 1 is the inscription " dono et liberalitate DD. Le Goux (^sic), fratrum, haeredum Domini de Vallepelle Patris, in supremo Burgundiae senatu Advocati Generalis [Guillaume Le Gouz, Seigneur of Velle- pesle and Gurgy, near Auxerre, appointed Advocate General to the Parlement of Burgundy in 1586, cf. Palliot, Parlement de Bourgogne, p. 340], anno 1615, 1 octob." Small Folio. 2. PsALTEE, in Latin of the Vulgate version, with interlined Saxon glosses. At the end of each psalm a prayer is added, identical with those in the similar and contemporary Cotton MS. Tib. G. vi. The Psalms are followed by the Canticles (f. 168 b), which are incomplete, two leaves having been cut out at the end. The glosses appear to be contemporary with the Latin text. Vellum ; ff. 180. sith cent. English half-uncials ; the titles of the Psalms in red rustic capitals. One large ornamental initial letter, at the beginning of Psalm i., closely resembling the corre- sponding letter in Tib. C. vi. ; elsewhere plain coloured initials. In the margins ritual directions and antiphons have occasionally been added in a 15th-cent. hand. On f. 9 is written the name of " Kateryn Eudston," in a 16th-cent. hand. The MS. belonged to Sir Henry Spelman, whose autograph is on ff. 1 and_180 b, and the text of it was published by his son, Sir J. Spelman (Psalterium Davidis Latino- Saxonicum vetus, a Johanne Spelmanno D. Hen. fil. editum, e vetustissimo exemplari MS. in hihliotlieca ipsius Henrici, et cum tribiis aliis non minus vetustis collatum, Londini, 1640). The of&cial imjprimatur for this edition, on behalf of the Bishop of London, is at the end of the MS. (f. 180 b), dated 17 May, 1638. Subsequently the MS. belonged to T. Astle, who refers to it (as " King Alfred's Psalter ") in his Origin and Progress of Writing, p. 86, and plate xix. no. 6, and erroneously assigns it to about the year 880. Bound in leather (17th cent.), with tooled borders. Small Folio. 3. The Four Gospels, in Latin : Vulgate version. Preceded by the prologue "Plures fuisse " (f. 9), and the Epistle of St. Jerome to Pope Damasus, " Novum opus facere" (f. 10). Each Gospel is pre- ceded by its usual argument (" Matheus ex iudea," etc.), and by a "breviarium" or table of chapters; but while St. Mark and St. Luke are divided into the usual nun^ber of 46 and 94 chapters respectively, St. Matthew and St. John are divided into the smaller Cl. I. BIBLE, ETC. 3 number of 28 and 14 chapters, a division which is found in the Codex Cavensis (C) alone of those quoted in Wordsworth's edition (Oxford, 1889): c/. Tommasi, Opera, vol. i. pp. 319, 346, ed. Vezzosi, 1747, where other examples are quoted. The Ammonian sections are marked in the margin. The Eusebian canons are rarely noted; but under each of the Ammonian sections is given the number of the corresponding section in the other Gospels. The text appears to be not of the first class, generally differing in doubtful passages from the Codex Amiatinus and kindred MSS. At the end is a Leotionary, entitled "oapitulare euuangeliorum de anni circulo" (ff. 216-224). Vellum ; ff. 224. xth cent. Probably written in Germany. At the beginning (f. 2 b) is a full-page miniature of St. Matthew writing at a desk; and on ff. 3-8 are the usual columns and arches for the Eusebian canons, which, however, are not inserted. At the beginning of St. Matthew (f 15) the first two letters of "Liber" are illuminated in green and gold, within an arch of the same colours, and the unoccupied part of the page is washed with purple, the white vellum, however, being left within the interlacings of the LI. This was done after the leaf had been gummed to the next; and, as they are now separated again, ff. 16 b, 16 are blank and the text of the Gospel begins on f 16 b, the first verse being written at the top of the page in a different hand. A blank page (£ 72 b) was left for the first verse of St. Mark, and a design has been partially outlined upon it. This is the case also with two large initials in St. Luke, i. 1, 5 (ff. Ill b, 112), and with the first verse of St. John (ff. 172, 172 b). Bound in wooden boards, recently covered with morocco. In the upper cover are inserted three plaques of carved ivory, partly gilt, the work of a Byzantine artist of the 13th century. The subject of the central one is the Virgin and Child, with an in- scription in red paint, MP KY [Mrp-rip Kvpiov] ; that on the left represents a saint whose name is almost entirely effaced [St. Theodore?], with the Archangel Michael above, and that on the right another saint, also with partially effaced inscription [St. George ?], with the Archangel Gabriel above. Polio. 4. Petki CoMESTOEis (o&. 1179) Historia Scholastica: a Bible-history, with insertions from profane authors, concluding here with tl»e Ascension, and not carried on to the end of the Acts of the Apostles, as in Migne's edition, Patrologia, vol. cxcviii. (see below, no. 5). The first two leaves are lost, the volume beginning " habet pro super ferebatur " (Gen. ch. ii., Migne, col. 1057). At the end (ff. 267-272) is a chronological digest, beginning with the Flood B 2 4 STOWE MSS., 5-8. and summarising the chronology of the principal nations of an- tiquity ; it then gives lists of the Eoman emperors down to John Comnenus [1118-1143], of kings of France to Louis VI. [1108- 1137], and of Saxon emperors to Lothair II. [1125-1138], followed by lists of the kings of Aquitaine, of the Vandals, Visigoths, and Ostrogoths, the dukes of Normandy and kings of England to Henry the younger, son of Henry II. [1170-1183], and the dukes of Normandy in Apulia. After these come genealogies of the Maccabees and the Herods, and miscellaneous lists, e.g. of the books of the Bible, the plagues of Egypt, the cities of Sodom, of towns (ancient and modern), and of writers of history ; and the volume breaks off incomplete, while dealing with the prophets of Israel, with the words " significantur vii prophetse qui pronunciaverunt." VeUum ; ff. 272. Early xiiith cent. Titles and initial letters of chapters in red. In the margin of f. 130 is the name of John King, 1647; and on a paper fly-leaf (f. 1) the inscription "Biblio- theca Palmeriana Londini, 1747." With book-plate of arms of Ealph Verney, 1st Earl Verney (oh. 1752), whose mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Ealph Palmer, of Little Chelsea. Quarto. 5. Petri Comestoeis Historia Scholastica. Begins with the epistle dedicatory to William [de Champagne], Archbishop of Sens [1168-1176, afterwards of Eeims, and Cardinal], and is complete to the end of the Gospel history, with a continuation covering the • Acts of the Apostles and ending with the martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul, bj' Petrus Pictaviensis [Chancellor of the Cathedral and University of Paris, oh. 1205 ?], entitled " Incipit commentum magistri Petri Pictaviensis super Actus Apostolorum" (f. 166 b). This is printed by Migne, vol. cxcviii., 1645, as by P. Comestor himself. Appended also (ff. 191-196 b), in a somewhat later hand, is the story of Barlaam and Josaphat, from the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (oh. 1298). Vellum; ff. 195. xinth and (ff. 191-195 b) early xivth centt. In double columns of 44 lines. The initial letter of each book ■ contains a miniature in gold and colours. That at the beginning of the epistle dedicatory represents the author presenting his work to the Archbishop of Sens, with a scroll containing the first words of the epistle, " Eeverendo patri et domino suo Willelmo dei gratia Senonensi arohiepiscopo Petrus servus Christi presbiter Trecensis vitam bonam et exitum beatum." Titles of chapters in red, and initials in red and blue. Polio. 6. Stjorh (i.e. " a steering ") : a Biblical Paraphrase of the historical books of the Old Testament, in Icelandic. Begun by order of Cl. I. BIBLE, ETC. 5 Hakon V., King of Norway, circ. 1300, but completed, from Exodus, ch. XX. onwards, by adopting the earlier GySinga Sogur (" Sagas of the Jews") of Brand Jonsson, Bishop of Holar (06. 1264): see Gudbrand Vigfusson, Sturlunga Saga, Oxford, 1878, Prolegomena, p. oxxxv. The later compilation is partly based on the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Oomestor (06. 1179) and the Speculum His- toriale of Vincent de Beauvais (oh. circ. 1264). The whole was edited by Carl Unger, Christiania, 1862. Paper; ff. 376. An xvinth cent, transcript of a MS. in the library of the University of Copenhagen. Eolio. 7. BiBLiA Pauperum, consisting of rudely executed and coloured drawings representing the typical events of Old Testament History and their corresponding fulfilments in the Life of our Lord, with appropriate texts from the Vulgate. There are in addition numerous drawings of heads of prophets, kings, etc. Beneath each principal drawing is a descriptive Latin hexameter. The texts and lines correspond with those in King's MS. 5. Vellum ; ff. 65. xvth cent. On f. 2 are the words " Orate pro anima Georgii Plompton, sacerdotis" (16th cent.); and the follow- ing names occur as those of owners : — Christopher Staynforthe (15th cent.), f. 54 b ;— Thomas Smythe (16th cent.), f. 22 b; — William Cockerd, 1662. f. 41 ; — F. Lodman, Eobert Bourgh, and Henry Brough (17th cent.), f. 20 b. The fly-leaves (ff. 1, 54, 55) consist of three leaves containing portions of ordinances (in FrencTi) relating to wool merchants and others, early 15th cent. Quarto. 8. Zaghaeias Cheysopolitanus in unum ex quattuor sive de concordia Evangelistarum : the Concordance to the Gospels, with commentary, of Zacharias of Chrysopolis [variously supposed to be Goldborough in Yorkshire and BesanQon in France]. He has recently been identified with Zacharias, " ductor scholarum " at the church of St. Jean de Besangon in 1134 (U. Eobert, in the Bibl. de VEcole des GTiartes, vol. xxxiv., 1873, p. S-80). Printed in Migne, Patrologia, vol. clxxxvi. In this MS. ff. 3 b-9 contain the table of " capitula," i.e. the first words of each of the Ammonian sections, with the number of the section and the Eusebian canon to which each belongs. Then follow the table of Eusebian canons (if. 9 b-13), the "preseries Zacharie crisopolitani in unum ex quattuor," beg. "De excellentia evangelii" (ff. 14-21); the preface (the second in Migne) "Matheus cognomento Levi" (f. 21); anoth^ preface (the third in. Migne) " Unum ex quatuor " (f. 21 b), withi an additional paragraph, which looks as if it should rather have belono-ed to the first preface, beig. " Cuique evangelistarum sunt 6 STOWE MSS., 9-11. quattuor facies " and ending " comminaoiones que malos terrent " ; a third preface, being the paragraphs which in Migne follow the table of chapters (coll. 45, 46), beg. " Notum facimus lectori " and ending " hncusqne Hieronymns " (f. 22) ; the prologue of St. Luke with the commentary of St. Ambrose and Bede, and the colophon "explicit preseries" (f. 22 b). The table of chapters of the first book follows, omitting the " admonitio lectori " prefixed to it in Migne (" Sicut ex creaturis . . . oorrigere veKnt ") ; and the text of the Gospels, with the commentary, begins on f. 23. It concludes with the words " ad diem ascensionis sue," omitting the last clause given in Migne. At the end is a table showing where to find the lessons for the various church festivals (f. 190), and a glossary of the proper names and other " barbarous " words used in the Gospel (f. 191 b). Vellum; ff. 194. xvth cent. In double columns of 50 lines. Initials in red and blue ; references and titles in red. At the end of the Concordance (f. 189 b) is given the name of the scribe, Koger Albon, a Carmelite. Folio. 9. CoiTOOEDANCB or Harmony of the Gospels, in Latin, the four narratives being combined into one by selection of passages from each. Begins with John i. 1, "In principio erat Verbum," and ends with the last words of the same Gospel, " qui scribendi sunt libros," followed by the colophon, " Explicit sanctum evangelium domini nostri lesu Cristi secundum quatuor evangelistas Matheum Marcum Lucam et lohannem." A table of contents, with refer- ences to folios, is added at the end. Eeferences are placed in the margin at the beginning of each section, and initial letters are in red. Paper ; £f. 172. End of xvth cent. The fiy-leaves (£f. i., ii.), which were fastened to the old binding, are fragments of a Latin leotionary on vellum, of the 14th cent. The stamped leather of the original binding is now laid down inside the modern covers. Duodecimo. CLASS 11. LITURGICAL BOOKS. 10. " MissALE secundum usum Romane ecclesie." Written apparently for a Franciscan house in Northern France. Preceded by a calendar (ff. 1-6). Vellum; ft. 263. xvth cent, (after 1450, St. Bemardinus, the Franciscan, canonized in that year, being included in the calendar). In double columns ; with a full-page illumination of the Crucifixion facing the "Te igitur" (f. 113 b), and a few illuminated initials. Bound in blue morocco. Folio. 11. MissALE EoMANUM, executed at Lisbon for the rectification of the services of the Portuguese Church, by order of John III., King of Portugal [1521-1667], and completed after his death under the patronage of his wife. Queen Catherine, and his brother Henry [Cardinal and Eegent during the minority of King Sebastian]. A preface (f. 6) by "Diegus Sygeus Toletanus senior," addressed "ad regalium sacrorum decanum dignissimum ac reliquum Sacerdotium, de Missali recens emendato," states that it was undertaken at the suggestion of Antonius Pignerius [Antonio Pinheiro, Bishop successively of Miranda and Leiria, ob. 1586], and was begun in 1557 and completed in 1663. Described on the title-page (f. 2) as " Sacerdotale Volumen ad ritum san : Romanae Ecclesiae scriptum, in quo habentur CXL. Missae ; quibus Portugal : Reges interesse solenniter consuevere praeter Epistolas et Evangelia quae separatim sunt de industria excripta, ad faciliorem Subdiacc : at Diaconor : usum, emendata omnia exactiss : pientiss : lohannis III. Regis ductu atque imperio, Olyssip : anno salutis mdlvii." A table of contents is given on ff. 3-5. There is no calendar, and the Temporale (f. 7 b) is immediately preceded by the office " Ad aquae benedictae aspersionem." The Commune Sanctorum is also absent. Vellum; fi". 173. In double columns, with gold borders. Pro- fusely ornamented with illuminated initials, the larger of them containing miniatures. A leaf, which probably had a full-page miniature, has been cut out before the " Te igitur " (f. 74). 8 STOWE MSS., 12, 13. Belonged in the 18th cent, to the Abbe G-arnier, chaplain to the French factory at Lisbon. Bought by George Spencer Churchill, Marquis of Blandford [aft. Duke of Marlborough] in 1812. Bound in red morocco with gold tooling. Folio. 12. Beeviaeium, of Sarum use adapted to Norwich (see below). The contents are : — ■ 1. Proprium de Tempore. Imperfect at the beginning, apparently a whole quire being lost. The first page begins near the end of the rubrics for the first week in Advent, followed by " Feria ii." f. 1. 2. Brief notes of English history, chiefly relating to the births and deaths of kings, from the death of Edward the Confessor [1066] to the coronation of Edward II. [25 Feb. 130|]. f. 155. 3. Brief notes of events, chiefly in ecclesiastical history, from 1064 to the execution of Thomas, Duke of Lancaster, 22 March [132^], entitled " gesta teroie revolutionis sequentis tabule," referring to the cycle described in the article which follows, and especially recording events connected with Norwich and the neighbouring dioceses, f. 156. 4. Table of the Paschal Cycle of 532 years, formed by multiplying together the solar cycle of 28 years and the lunar of 19 years, f. 157. 5. Calendar, f. 158. Among the entries are : — 3 Mar. " Sci. Wynewalei [Winwaloc] non Sarum " ; — 8 Mar. " Sci. Felicis episcopi et confessoris non Sarum"; — 17 June, "Sci. Botulphi abbatis non Sarum " ; — 22 July, " Memoria de S. Wandregesillo abbate " ; — 5 Aug. " Sci. Dominici conf. non Sarum " ; — 2 Oct. "Transl. S. Thome Herford. episcopi" [Thomas de Cantelupe, d. 1282, can. 1320] ;— 4 Oct. " Sci. Francisci conf. non Sarum " ;— 3 Dec. " Sci. Birini episcopi et conf ix lectiones secundum Sarum." 6. Psalter, Canticles, Litany (in two forms), Benedictions, etc. Imperf., wanting the first leaf, the text of Psalms I. and II. being supplied in an early 17th-cent. hand on the preceding page, f. 165. 7. Proprium sanctorum. Imperf., wanting the first leaf. f. 223. Among the references to Sarum use are : — P. of St. Oswald and of St. Dominic [5 Aug.], " Tamen secundum Sarum nichil fiat de S. Dominico sed totum fiat de S. Oswaldo." f. 290 ; — " In octava S. Marie [15 Sept., as in the Calendar here] festum reliquiarum apud Sarum celebratur." f. 299 b;— F. of St. Francis [4 Oct.], "Euangelium de communi unius confessoris et pontificis cetera omnia de communi Sci. Francisci confessoris secundum Sarum de eo nichil fiat." f. 308 b ;— F. of St. Edmund [of Pontigny], arch- Cl. II. LITUEGICAL BOOKS. 9 bishop [16 Nov.], "In redeundo [dicitur antiphona] de S. Maria. Secundum Sarum hoc modo fiat de S. Eadmundo." f. 329. 8. Commune sanctorum, f. 338. At the end (ff. 354 h-SS? h) is added in a later hand (with the initials not filled in) the Service for the F. of the Transfiguration, 6 Aug. 9. Ordinale. f. 358. This article is in a different hand, and did not originally form part of the same volume as the rest. The illuminated border round the first page also differs in style. In the initial letter are the arms az. a bend or, a label of three points arg., being those of Scrope of Masham. In the central point of the label is an indistinct charge, gules. These arms perhaps refer to Eichard Scrope (3rd son of Henry, 1st Lord Scrope of Masham), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1386-1398, Archbishop of York 1398-1405. In a rubric on p. 877 b is a mention of the year 1383 as future (" quod erit anno dni. m°ccc°lxxxiii" "). Fine vellum; ff. 395. Artt. 1-8 were written between 1322 (cf. art. 3) and 1326, John Salmon, the last Bishop of Norwich mentioned in art. 3, having died in the latter year. Art. 9 must have been written before 1888 (see above). The missing leaves were presumably cut out for the sake of the illuminations. Elaborately executed initials in gold and colours, often enclosing miniatures, at all the large divisions of the offices (see especially ff. 16 b, 23 b, 109, 150 b), with coloured initials (red and blue) at the smaller divisions, the initials being in all cases extended so as to form marginal ornamentations for every column. In the margin of f. 68 is a curious grotesque drawing. On f. 164 (a leaf left blank after the calendar) is a note, extracted from the enrolments of Mich, term, 18 Edw. III. [1844], of a receipt given by Philip de Mounde- ville and Walter his brother to William de Cusance [Cusans], Treasurer of England, for 100 pounds sterling due on a bond, at London, 18 July, 1343, and acknowledged by the said Philip in Court, 5 Dec. [1844], On f. 875 b is a recipe for making ink, in a 15th-cent. hand, with another, dated 28 Dec. 1626, in Sir E. Twysden's hand. Small Folio. 13. Manual, with musical notes ; entitled (in a later hand) " Eituale secundum usum Sarum." The contents are : —(1) Benedictio salis et aquae, f. 1 ; — (2) " Ordo ad cathecuminum faciendum.'' f. 5 ; — (3) Eitus baptizandi. f. 19 ; — (4) " Ordo ad purificandum mulierem post partum." f. 24b; — (5) "Ordo ad faciendum sponsalia." f. 25 b ; — (6) " Ordo ad servicium peregrinorum." f. 36 b ; — (7) " Ordo ad visitandum infirmos." After the end of this office as given in Maskell's Monumenta Bitualia (vol. i. p. 99) some additional matter is appended (ff. 47 b, 48), including 10 STOWE MSS., 14, 15. some questions and responses in Bnglisli, attributed to St. Anselm. f. 41 ; — (8) De extrema Unctione, with the Commen- datio animarum. Some leaves have been out out at the end of this office, f. 48 b; — (9) Vigilire mortuorum. f. 62; — (10) Inhumatio defuncti. f. 102; — (11) " Missa pro mortalitate vitanda, quam dominus papa Clem ns instituit cum omnibus cardinalibus et concessit omnibus predictam missam audientibus ducentos et sexaginta dies indulgenoie." At the end of the office (f. 115) is a rubric mentioning an indulgence granted on 19 July, 1411, by Eobert [Hallam], Bishop of Salisbury, "in castro suo de Schirborn." f. 113 ; — (12) " Ad missam de nomine lesu officium." f. 115 b ; — (13) "Missa de sancta Maria per adventum." f. 119 b. VeUnm ; ff. 120. xvth cent. In vellum binding, with a small oval stamp of the Crucifixion in the centre. Belonged to Thomas Astle, who gives a facsimile of a portion of it in his Origin and Progress of Writing, pi. xxviii. no. 15, p. 153. IBmo. 14. " Ceeemoniale ad usum Canonicorum S. Crucis, domus Parisien- sis " : the ceremonies and order of the church service throughout the year. Begins, " Incipit ordinarium. De pulsationibus. Quando fratres debent,'' etc. The title is written in a later hand on the fly-leaf. With a table of chapters at the end. Vellum and (ff. 69-90) paper ; ff. 90. The text on the vellum leaves is written in several hands of xvith cent. ; the remainder, according to a note at the end, by Egidius Hunault, " conventus Parisiensis," and finished 12 June, 1610. At the beginning (f. 3 b) is a roughly executed miniature, unfinished, representing a seated figure, with landscape in the background. On f. 2 is the note " Conventus Sauctas Crucis, 1684," and in handwriting of the same time the name " Prancisous de Prime." Above is the entry " donne par le prbe. Martin Cordelier le 28 May 1703." On f. 1 b is the title repeated by Tho. Astle. Large Octavo. 15. Lessons from the Four Gospels, in Latin, containing the narratives of the Nativity, Baptism, and Passion, from the Synoptists, and the whole of the Gospel of St. John except the portion from ch. XX. 19 to the end, which is lost. The Lessons occupy seven quires and one leaf of the eighth, which is imperfect (ff. 26-84), and are written in a hand of the late 12th century. They are preceded by five quires (some imperfect) and followed by one quire, containing mis- cellaneous notes and records, chiefly relating to the business of the Exchequer : viz. (1) Notes of committal of sheriffs' attorneys Cl. II. LITUEGICAL BOOKS. 11 and others, for debts due to the Exchequer, and of their release, dated in the reigns of Henry YI., Edward IV., and Henry VII. ff. 3-5, 8, 88. With a mandate of Edw. I. on the subject, 26 Nov. a" 32 [1303]. f. 19 b;— (2) Notes of dues from various counties, and of the value of various quantities of "summoni- tiones." ff. 5 b-7, 15 b-18, 85;— (3) The oath of fealty to King Henry VIII. and the heirs born to him and his queen Jane (two copies, the name " Jane " in the second being written over an erasure of " Anne "). ff. 8 b, 9 ; — (4) Hymns for the vigils of the Ascension ("Eterne rex altissime"), St. Katherine (" Dis- putando vicit virgo "), and St. Nicholas ("Sospitate dedit egros"), in a hand of the 15th cent. ff. 9b, 10b, lib;— (5) Extracts from the Eed Book of the Exchequer, ff. 13-15, 83-84 b;— (6) Contemporary notes of the capture of Berwick, 30 March, 1296, the departure of Edward III. from Harwich on 16 July, 1338, and his return on 20 Feb. 13ff . f. 19 ;— (7) Calendar, in a 14th-cent. hand, with additions, among which are notes of the marriage of Anne of Bohemia to Eichard II., 20 Jan. [1382], the days on which Easter fell in various years of Eichard II. and Henry VI., a great earthquake in London, 21 May, 1382, obit of S[imon,] Archbishop of Canterbury [killed by rebels], 14 June, 1382 [should be 1381], the fight with the followers of Cade [described as " capitaneus Kantiae"] on London Bridge, 5 July, 1460, coronation of Eichard III., 6 July, 1483, obit of William Laysyngby [Lasingby, Chief Baron of the Exchequer], 2 Aug. 1419, obit of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, 13 Sept. [1369], coronation of Henry VI., 6 Nov. 1428 [should be 1429]. ff. 20-26. Vellum; ff. 92, including two leaves lining the cover and containing fragments of a theological treatise of the 14th cent. Ff. 2, 9 are modern paper leaves, xiith-xvith centt. Bound in thick oak boards, covered with leather; brass corner-pieces, stamped with fleurs-de-lis. To the lower cover is attached a crucifix, bronze-gilt. The volume may be the " little booke with a crucifix" mentioned in PowelPs Bepertoire of Records, 1631, p. 123, as preserved in the chest of the King's Eemembrancer, at the Exchequer, and was probably used for administering oaths. A note (f. 2) by John Ives, dated 18 Oct. 1772, states that T. Madox [author of the History of the Exchequer] told T. Martin that he believed it " was used to take the Coronation Oath upon by all our Kings and Queens till Henry VIII. " ; but there does not appear to be any evidence of this. The book belonged to Eichard Hodgis in 1545 (f. 12 b) ; to Thomas Martin of Palgrave, the antiquary [1697-1771] ; to John Ives in 1772 [ob. 1776]; to John Jackson in 1779 ; and to T. Astle [1735-1803]. Octavo. 12 STOWE MSS., 16-19. 16. Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are : — (1) Calendar, f. 3 ;— (2) Office of the Virgin, f. 9 ;— (3) The Penitential Psalms and Psalms of Degrees, with Litany, f. 48 ; — (4) Office of the Dead. f. 72 ;— (5) Hymn to the Virgin, beg. " Salve virgo virginum stella matntina." f. 120 ; — (6) Prayers to the Virgin, imperfect at beginning, f. 124 ; — (7) Miscellaneous prayers and hymns, f. 128 b. Vellum; ff. 152. Early xvth cent. Executed in England; with good illuminated initials and borders at the beginning of each office, and a few miniatures. The calendar contains the following additions : obit of Henry VII., 21 April, 1509 ; " sayntt Eremunde Fayre att Dunstabyll," 11 May; obit of John Eotheram, 9 Aug. 1492 ; obit of Eoger Eotheram, doctor of laws, 26 Aug. 1477 (cf. f. 149 b). On two fly-leaves at the beginning (ff. 1 b, 2) is a prayer, entitled " The glorious Inuo[ca]oion of our saviour Jesu," in English, apparently in the same hand as the calendar, and with the name of the writer given as Eichard Wauton. At the end (ff. 150 b-152) are additional prayers of the 15th cent., including a commemoration of " Eex Henricus pauperum et ecclesie defensor," etc. (f. 151), with the litany "ora pro nobis, beate serve Dei, Henrice," and a prayer beg. " Deus qui beatum Henricum Eegem tuum sanctum militem, ecclesie defensorem et pauperum amicum, in omnibus adversis (?) perfeote caritatis amore decorasti," etc. On f. 1 are the names of George Eotheram [15th cent., see also f. 150], Eichard Thompson [Dean of Bristol, oh. 1685], and Walter Harte, who bought the MS. from the widow of Dean Thompson, in 1686. Three leaves have been replaced in facsimile (ff. 29, 75, 78), and a leaf is missing before f. 124. Bound in red velvet. Octavo. 17. Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin and French. The contents are; — (1) Calendar, in French. Among the saints are: — 30 Jan. " Adegou le virgene " [Aldegonde, Abbess of Maubeuge] ; 17 Mar. " Gertrus" [Gertrude, Abbess of Mvelles] ; 18 April, " Ursmart" [Abbot and Bishop of Lobbes] ; 23 April, Albert [Bishop of Liege, patron saint of Maestricht] ; 28 Apr. Transl. of St. Lambert [Bishop of Maestricht] ; 30 Apr. " Quitin " [Quentin, patron of Hasselt] ; 13 May, Servais [Bishop of Maestricht], red letter; 23 May, Wibert [Guibert, Abbot of Gembloux] ; 8 June, Medart ; 1 July, "Monegou" [Monegonde, of Tours] ; 25 Sept. " Aman " [Amand, Bishop of Maestricht]; 30 Sept. "Folhin" [Eolcuin, Abbot of Lobbes]; 3 Oct. Hubert [Bishop of Maestricht and Liege]; 23 Nov. " Tron " [founder of St. Trond]. Instead of their usual names, the months June and Julv are called "Eesailh" and Cl. II. LITUEGICAL BOOKS. 13 " Fenas " (c/. Godefroy, Diet, de Vane, langue Frcmgaise, s. vv. resaille, fenal). f. 2 b ;— (2) Office of the Virgin, f. 18 ;— (3) The Peni- tential Psalms, f. 140 ;— (4) The Psalms of Degrees (Ps. cxx.- cxxxiv.). f. 158 ;— (5) Litany, f. 172 b;— (6) Office of the dead, f. 188 ;— (7) Prayers. French, f. 266. Vellum; £f. 273. xiiith-xivth cent. Prom the names of saints given above, the MS. was evidently executed in or near Maestricht. The calendar is followed by iive full-page miniatures, and there are similar miniatures at the beginning of each office ; and the borders and margins of every page are illustrated with well-executed grotesque and other designs. The titles of the offices are not given. 18mo. 18. Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are : — (1) " Orationes dicende in corporis Christi elevatione," etc. A later insertion, f. lb; — (2) Calendar, f. 2; — (3) "Here sancte crucis." f. 14;- — (4) " Antiphona de beata Maria virginis " (sic). f. 19 ; — (5) " Hore beate Marie virginis secundum consuetudinem ecclesie Eomane." f. 21 ; — (6) The seven Penitential Psalms, with Litany, f. 60 ;— (7) " Vigilie mortuorum." f. 73 ;— (8) Miscel- laneous devotions, in a diiferent hand, ending with commemora- tions of a large number of saints, f. 90. At the end (f. 155) are records, in several diiferent hands, of births and marriages in the family of Zoutelande, 1523-1611 ; the earlier ones and the last in Latin, the rest in Dutch. Vellum; ff. 161. Late xvth cent. Executed apparently in the neighbourhood of Utrecht ; with two coarsely executed full-page miniatures, and ten large illuminated initials with borders in the French style. The latter part of the MS., from p. 90, has no ornamentation except a few coloured initials and rubrics. Belonged in 1762 to J. L. Van de Walle, whose book-plate of arms is inside the cover. Bound in stamped leather, each cover bearing representations (now nearly effaced) of St. Michael and St. John Baptist (?), separated by four small panels, containing a stag, a dragon, a griffin, and a hound. Duodecimo. 19. Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are: — • (1) Calendar, f . 1 ; — (2) "Ad salutandam faciem Christi," beg, with the hymn " Salve sanota facies nostri redemptoris." f. 13 ; — (3) "Hore sancte crucis." f. 16;— (4) "Hore de sancto Spiritu." f. 23 ;— (5) " Missa beate Marie." f. 28 ;— (6) " Hore beate Marie virginis, secundum usum Eomanum." f. 42 ; — (7) " Officium beate Marie quod dioitur per totum aduentum." f. 97 ;— (8) Commemo- ration of the following saints : Slichael the archangel, Anthony, Bernard, Katherine, Barbara, f. 107 b ; — (9) The seven Penitential 14 STOWE MSS., 20-23. Psalms, -with Litany, f. 113 ;— (10) " Vigilie mortuorum." f. 134 ; — (11) " Oracio beate Marie Virginia." f. 174 b. Vellum; ff. 181. Late xvth cent. With three full-page miniatures, and many smaller miniatures and illuminated borders and initials in Flemish style ; the calendar ornamented with minute figures of animals, flowers, insects, etc. At the end (f. 181) is the name of Carolus de Vos, in a 16th-century hand, with the inscription, " Nomen meum hie pono quod librum perdere nolo ; si perdere voluissem, nomen meum hie non posuissem." The MS. was apparently bought by The. Astle from a Tournay bookseller in 1784. Duodecimo. 20. HouRsof the Virgin, efc, in Xaiiw. The contents are : — (1) Office of the Virgin. Imperf. at the beginning, f. 3 ; — (2) " In adventu Domini tantum, Missa de beata Maria." f. 50; — (3) Office of the Dead. Imperf. at the beginning, f. 98 ; — (4) The Penitential Psalms, with Litany, f. 147. Vellum; ff. 170. Late xvth cent. Some additional prayers are inserted on the fly-leaves. With coarsely executed initials and borders, of Flemish style. On the inside of the cover at each end is a coloured woodcut, the first representing the Visitation, and the second St. Bruno (whose name, together with that of St. Anthelm, another Carthusian, has also been inserted in the Litany, f. 162 b). Both appear to have been executed in the Netherlands, the first near the end of the 15th cent., the other in the first half of the 16th cent. 18mo. 21. HoDES of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are : — (1) Calendar. f. 5 ; — (2) " Hore de sancta cruce." f. 17 ; — (3) " Hore sancti spiritus." f. 20 ; — (4) " Officium misse beate marie v." f. 23 ; — (5) " Hore beate marie virginis." f. 39 ; — (6) " Septem psalmi penitenciales," with Litany, f. 76; — (7) "Vi- gilie mortuorum." f. 92. At the beginning (if. 3, 4) are some instructions in Butch,, and at the end (£f. 104-117) Dutch hymns to Our Lord, the Virgin, and SS. Michael, Joris [ = George], Kerstoifel [ = Christopher], Anthony, Mary Magdalene, Barbele [= Barbara], Margaret; with a Latin prayer for the protection of St. Maoharius against the plague (f. 110), and a Latin prayer to the Virgin (f. 117). Vellum; if. 118. xvth cent. With miniatures and illuminated borders, in the French style, at the beginning of each office, small illuminated initials elsewhere. Belonged in 16th cent, to Peter Penneman, and in 1760 to J. L. Van de Walle, whose book-plate of arms is inside the cover. Small Octavo. Cl. n. LITUEGICAL BOOKS. 15 22. HoTiES of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are: — (1) Calendar, f. 1 ; — (2) " Qnindecim orationes ad Christum." f. 13 ; — (3) " Commemoratio de sancta trinitate." f. 19 ; — (4) Commemorations of the following saints : — John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Christopher, George, Thomas of Canterhury, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine, Margaret, Barbara, f. 20; — (5) " Hore beate Marie Virginis secundum usum Sarum." f. 35 ; — (6) Hymns and prayers to the Virgin, f. 69 b ; — (7) Miscellaneous prayers, including one (f. 82 b) entitled " oratio venerabilis Bede presbyteri." f. 80 ; — (8) " Septem psalmi penitenciales," with Litany, f. 89 ;— (9) " Vigilie defunctorum." f. 105 ;— (10) " Com- mendationes animarum." f. 126; — (11) "Psalmi de passione Domini." f. 137 ;— (12) "Psalterium sancti Iheronimi." f. 143. Vellum; ff. 154. xvth cent. Executed apparently in France, but for English use, the saints especially commemorated in the Calendar being largely English. Pull-page miniatures, coarsely executed, with illuminated borders at the beginning of each office, but in many cases the miniatures have been cut out. The name of St. Thomas of Canterbury has been erased throughout, and rubrics referring to promises of indulgences have been obliterated with ink (ff. 77, 86 b). A table of contents has been added at the end in a late hand. With book-plate of arms of A. C. Ducarel, LL.D. [1713-1786, Librarian at Lambeth Palace]. Octavo. 23. Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin, with French rubrics. There is no calendar, and the following are the contents : — (1) " Heures de le doleur et compassion de le glorieuse viergene Marie pour Ihesu Crist." f. 3 ;— (2) Prayers to the Virgin, with (f. 38 b) the hymn " Gaude flore virginali." f. 32 ; — (3) Prayer to Christ, with the rubric, " quiconques dira ceste orison qui sensieult entre le eleuation du corps nostre seigneur et le tiers Agnus dei, Le pape Boniface [VIIL, 1294-1303] a donne et ottrie deux mille ans de pardons, A le requeste de Phelippe [IV., 1285-1314] roy de France." f. 41 ; — (4) " Les viii vers Saint Bernard." f. 42 ; — (5) " Passio domini nostri Ihesu Christi secundum Johannem," with prayers, f. 43 ; — (6) Commemorations of the following saints : — Michael the archangel, John the Baptist, Peter, John the Evangelist, James the greater, Nicholas, Anthony, Sebastian, Francis, Christopher, Mary Magdalene, Margaret, Katherine, Barbara, Agnes, Agatha, ApoUonia, Quintin, Clare, f. 46; — (7) "Orison des iiii euangelistes." f. 61b; — (8) "Orison des vii paroles que nostre seigneur Ihesu Crist dist estant en labre de la oroix." f. 63b;— (9) "Du sacrement de I'autel." i. 66b;— (10) "De saint Bethremieu" [Bartholomew], f. 67;— (11) "De 16 STOWE MSS., 24-27. saint Francois et sea compaignons." f. 67 b;— (12) "Memoire de tons les sains." f. 69 b ;— (13) " De beata virgine Maria." f. 70 ;— (14) "Memore de sainte Anne." f. 72;— (15) " De v sains previlegies," sc. Denis, George, Christopher, Blaise, and Giles, f. 72b;— (16) "De v saintes previlegiies," sc. Katharine, Margaret, Martha, Christina, and Barbara, f. 73 b ;— (17) " Les x Miserere." f. 74 b;— (18) "0 Sapientia," etc. f. 75 b;— (19) " Trois paroles, les queles sent de si grand vertu que on troeuue en liure auotentique que quiconques les dira de coer devotement a dieu, sans auoir volente de faire a lencontre, nostre seigneur luy pardonra tous ses meffais." f. 77 b; — (20) "Pour resister a la temptation de lanemi denfer moult valent les remedes qui sensieuuent." f. 78. Vellum ; ff. 85. xvth cent. Executed in France. On ff. 2 b, 62 are full-page miniatures, and another has been torn out after f. 31. There are also illuminated initials and borders at the beginnings of the principal offices, with small miniatures of the saints commemorated. A miniature of two saints, by the same hand as some of those in the text, is pasted down inside the cover. Octavo. 24. Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin, with French rubrics and calendar. The contents are : — (1) Calendar, f. 2 ; — (2) Office of the Holy Cross, f. 8 b ;— (3) Office of the Holy Ghost, f. 16 b ;— (4) Office of the Virgin, with the special offices for particular seasons of the year. f. 23 b; — (6) The Seven Penitential Psalms, with Litany, f. 92;— (6) The Vigils of the Dead. f. Ill;- (7) Commemorations of Saints Michael, John the Baptist, Adrian, Sebastian, Katherine, Barbara, Margaret, ApoUonia, Anne, and Mary Magdalene, and prayers to the Virgin, f. 148 b. Vellum ; ff. 161. xvth cent. Executed in France. Full-page miniatures, coarsely executed, at the beginning of each office, with small miniatures and illuminated borders at the chief divisions. Illuminated initials throughout. Belonged in 1766 to J. L. Van de Walle, whose book-plate of arms is inside the cover. Small Quarto. 25. HouES of the Virgin, etc., in Latin and French. The contents are:^ — ^(1) Calendar, in French, f. 1; — (2) Lessons from the four Evangelists, with prayers to the Virgin, f. 13 ;— (3) Office of the Virgin, f. 36 ; — (4) The Penitential Psalms, with Litany, f. 120 ; —(5) Office of the Holy Cross, f. 146 ;— (6) Office of the Holy Ghost, f. 150 ;— (7) Office of the Dead. f. 155 ;— (8) Commemora- tions of Saints Peter, Paul, Laurence, Clement, Martin, Nicholas, Maurus, Dionysius, Stephen, Fiacre, with a blank space (f. 43) left Cl. II. LITUEGICAL BOOKS. 17 for that of St. Anthony, f. 207 ; — (9) Hymn to the Virgin, in French, beg. " digne preciosite." f. 218. Vellum; ff. 224. xvth cent. Executed in France. "With miniatures and elaborately designed borders. In some instances the figures of men or animals in the borders are only outlined, the colour not having been put in. Initials illuminated throughout. A note at the end (f. 224) states that the volume was given to Catharine Lecamus, by her father, that she may pray for him and for her mother, Jehanne Portin, who died 10 July, 1595. An inscription in her own hand inside the cover at the beginning repeats this statement. The father's signature, " Lecamus, notaire, 1592," is on the inside of the cover at the end, and the binding, of brown calf stamped with gold pimpernels, bears the name of Nicolas Lecamus. A note on the fly-leaf states that the volume was in the library of [Henry Stuart] Cardinal York (oh. 1807). Duodecimo. 26. HouES of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are: — (1) Calendar, f. 1 ;— (2) " OfBcium sancte orucis." f. 14 ;— (3) " Officium de sancto Spiritu." f. 23 ; — (4) " Missa [de] beata virgine Maria." f. 30; — (5) "Officium beate Marie virginis secundum usum Eomanum." f. 45 ; — (6) " Officium beate Marie virginis quod dicitur per totum aduentum." f. 124; — (7) " Septem psalmi peni- tenciales," with Litany, f. 135 ; — (8) " Officium mortuorum." f. 160;— (9) "Psalterium beati leronimi." f. 214;— (10) " Oracio devota [de] beata gloriosa virgine Maria." f. 236. Vellum ; ff. 244. xvth cent. Executed in the north of France. "With miniatures, illuminated borders round the first page of text, and small illuminated initials throughout. Bound in red velvet. Small Duodecimo. 27. Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are: — (1) Calendar, f. 3 ;— (2) Hours of the Holy Cross, f. 9 ;— (3) Hours of the Holy Ghost, f. 17 ;— (4) Hours of the Virgin, f. 22 ;— (5) The seven Penitential Psalms, with Litany, f. 75 ; — (6) The Vigils of the Dead. f. 92 ; — (7) Commemorations of the following saints : — Anne, Mary Magdalene, Katherine, Barbara, Margaret, ApoUonia, John the Baptist, Nicholas, Christopher, Anthony, Sebastian, Francis, f. 121. Vellum; ff. 129. xvth cent. Executed probably at or near Tournay (c/. calendar, 9 May, 1 Oct., 6 Dec, 14 Dec). With miniatures and illuminated borders and initials, of inferior work. "With the names, as owners, of Barbele Van de Waeterliet (f. 129), L . . . . strymeersch, 1614 (f. 2), and J. L. Van de "Walle, 1760 (f. 1). The book-plate of arms of the last is inside the cover. Duodecimo. C 18 STOWE MSS., 28-30. 28. Hours of tlie Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are: — (1) Calendar, in French, f. 2 ; — (2) Lessons from the four Evangelists, with prayers to the Virgin, f. 5 ; — (3) Office of the Virgin, f. 10 ; —(4) Office of the Virgin during Advent, f. 34 b;— (5) The Penitential Psalms, vrith Litany, f. 38 ; — (6) Office of the Holy Cross. Imperfect, i. 45 b ;— (7) Office of the Holy Ghost, f. 47 ; —(8) Office of the Dead. f. 48 b;— (9) "De Trinitate antiphona." f. 64; — (10) Commemorations of Saints Michael, John the Bap- tist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, James, Christopher, Sebastian, Mary Magdalene, Katherine, Barbara, f. 64 b. Vellum ; £f. 67. End of xvth cent. Executed in Prance. The calendar is surrounded with miniatures of saints and of the signs of the zodiac. Large miniatures at the beginning of each office, with smaller miniatures of the saints commemorated ; and every page decorated with illuminated border and initials. Given (f. 1) by "Madame royale, Duchesse de Savoie," to M. Delaistre, her Intendant, from whom it descended to his great-grandson, the writer, " Beunie (?), procureur du Eoy au presidial de Chartres," who inherited it on the death of his sister in 1714. Bound in red velvet, lined with light blue silk. Octavo. 29. HouES of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are : — (1) Calendar, f. 1 ; — (2) " Officium beate Marie virginis secundum consuetudinem Eomane curie." f. 14 ; — (3) Three psalms to be used on Tuesdays and Fridays, f. 92 ; — (4) Three psalms to be used on Wednesdays and Saturdays, f. 99 ; — (5) Office of the Virgin during Advent and other special seasons. f. 105 ; — (6) " Officium sanctissime Crucis editum per papam lohannem vigesimum secundum." f. 142 ; — (7) " Missa beate Marie vir- ginis." f. 153;— (8) "Missa de Spiritu sancto." f. 166b;— (9) The Penitential Psalms, with Litany, f. 178;— (10) "Officium mortuorum." f. 210. Vellum ; ff. 275. xvth cent. Executed in Italy. With a full- page miniature of the Salutation after the calendar (f. 13 b), and illuminated borders and miniature initials at the beginning of the principal offices. In the border on f. 14 are the arms of Priuli of Venice, and at the bottom of the miniature on f. 13 b (which is apparently by a different hand from the rest) is the coat, az. on a bend sinister or the letters E A (?). 18mo. 30. Praters in various languages, — Greek, Latin, English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Butch, and Hebrew, — beautifully written in inks of various colours, with illuminated titles and initials, for presentation to Queen Elizabeth. The prayers are preceded by a Cl. II. LITUEGICAL BOOKS. 19 short poem in Latin elegiacs, entitled " De illustrissima Eegina Anglias certamen Deorum, FcBminam earn an Virum nasoi vellent, an neutrum, an utrumque." The first page is elaborately orna- mented, with the royal arms in the middle, and the date, 1578, surrounded by the inscription " Deus tueatur Eeginam Elizabeth." Vellum ; S. 95. Bound in red velvet, vs^ith the letters E. E. sewed into the back. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Duodecimo. 2 CLASS m. THEOLOGY, WITH LIVES OF SAINTS. 31. Epistles of St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Anselm, viz. :— 1. " Epistola Anselmi aroMepiscopi ad papam"; Anselm's letter to Pope Paschal II., asking for a clearer declaration of his opinion on Investitures (Migne, Patrologia, vol. clix. ool. 110, Ep. iii. 73). Begins (after the salutation), " In primis quantas mea potest humilitas." f. 1. 2. " Epistola Pascalis papee ad Anselmum," in answer to the ahove (ibid., col. Ill, Ep. iii. 74). Begins, " Suavissimas dilectionis tuse." f 2 b. 3. " Anselmus ad Valeranum episcopum " : Anselm to Waleran, Bishop of Naumburg, on the Eucharist (Migne, vol. clviii. col. 541). Begins, " Scienti breviter loquor " ; ends imperfectly at the bottom of a page (f. 8 b) " satis igitur patet quod nee Grsecis nee nobis." f. 4. The remainder of the volume comes from another MS., the leaves being slightly larger and the hand different : — 4. "Epistola S. Hieronymi ad S. Augustinum" (Migne, vol. xxii. col. 834, Ep. cv.). A leaf is lost at the beginning, the first words here being " Hierosolimis et in Sanctis locis " ; ends " ad me primum fatias (sic) pervenire.'' f. 9. 5. " Epistola ejusdem ad eundem " (ibid., col. 916, Ep. cxii.). Begins, " Tres simul epistolas, imo libellos." f. 10 b. 6. " Epistola S. Augustini ad S. Hieronymum " (ibid., col. 936, Ep. cxvi.). Begins, " Jampridem tuse karitati." f. 23 b. Vellum ; ff. 37. xiith cent. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Octavo. 32. " Liber Pastoralis Cure beati Gregorii [episcopi] urbis Rome ad Johannem Eavennatem " ; with the dedicatory letter, beg. " Pasto- ralis cure me pondera," addressed to John, Bishop of Eavenna (Migne, Patrologia, vol. Ixxvii.). At the end (f. 61 b) is added a letter from Innocent III. to King John of England [23 Jan. 1209], exhorting him to submission, beg. "More pii patris" (Migne, vol. ccxv. 1535). Vellum ; ff. 62. Early xmth cent. In double columns of 32 lines, without divisions or titles to chapters j coloured initials. Cl. III. THEOLOGY, etc. 21 On tlie last page are some soribblings and doggrel Latin lines, witii the dates 1305 and 1318. Bound in oak boards, covered with white kid. On f. 1 is the signature " Br. Stapleton " [? Sir Brian Stapleton, of co. Suffolk, oh. 1519]. Quarto. 33. Anselmi Epistolse ccccxvii. : a transcript of Cotton MS. Claudius- A. xi., containing the complete collection of St. Anselm's letters ; made in 1670 under the inspection of Sir Eoger Twysden, who certifies its correctness in an autograph note at the end. A table of titles of the letters is prefixed. Paper; ff. 268. Inserted at the end (f. 268) is a petition to Sir Eoger Twysden from Margaret Snode, widow of Thomas Snode, complaining of the suppression of her Inn or Alehouse at G-reat Chart, co. Kent, belonging to the church of Canterbury. Folio. 34. Shoet Homilies on the various virtues and vices, in English. The beginning is wanting; the titles of the paragraphs which now stand first are " Of Sorinesse " [Sorrow] and " Of Asolknesse, Unlust'\ [Sloth]. Vellum; ff. 49. Early xuith cent. With a strongly marked change of hand at f. 39. Bound in crimson morocco, tooled, of the 18th cent. On the last leaf is the autograph of William Pletewood [Eecorder of London, 1571-1591], and at the beginning is that of Thomas Astle. Small Quarto. 35. De Corpore et Sanguine Dei : a treatise on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by B[aldwin], brother of the Abbey of Ford [in Devonshire, afterwards Abbot of Ford in 1168, Bishop of Worcester in 1180, and Archbishop of Canterbury 1184—1191], dedicated to B[artholomew], Bishop of Exeter [1159-1172]. No title; begins with the dedicatory epistle " Amantissimo domino et patri B. dei gratia Exoniensi episcopo frater B. fordensis monasterii servus etemam in domino salutem." Unfijiished, ending with the words " memoriam habundantie suavitatis eius eructabunt " (Tissier, p. 157, col. 2, 1. 5); a few blank pages remain, which have been ruled with lines for the completion of the work. Printed in Tissier' s Bibliotheca Patrum Cisterciensium, vol. iv. (1662), pp. 103- 159 ; and in Migne's Patrologia, vol. cciv. 641. Vellum; ff. 103. Early xiiith cent. Large coloured initials; titles of chapters in red. Belonged to Waltham Cross Abbey ; and in 1800 to Thomas Bryan Eichards, who has left some notes on the inner cover. It also contains the book-plate of [Eev.] Osmund Beau voir [D.D., ob. 1789], and the name of Charles Potherby, to 22 STOWE MSS., 36-39. whom the volume was given by his uncle Charles Fotherby. At the end is the name of William Eottorend, Canon of Waltham. Bound ia boards covered with (modern) leather. Octavo. 36. Eight Sermons " de Morte," and eleven " de Passione " Christi, in Latin. A short introduction is prefixed to the first series, beg. " Cum propriam imperitiam," and each sermon begins with the words "Omnes morimur." The second series begins, "Eorantes sanguine laorimas " (f. 29 b). The end of the volume is lost. The author's name is given at the beginning of each work as Guibertus ; and in a MS. at Douai containing the sermons "de Morte" he is called Guibertus Tornacensis, i.e. Guibert de Tournai, who died in 1270. In the Histoire Litteraire de la France, vol. xix., pp. 141, 142, two treatises are attributed to him, entitled " de morte non timenda " (in MS. at Tournai) and " de verbis Domini in cruce " (in MS. at Liege). The Douai cataloguer believes the former MS. to be identical with that now at Douai (cf. Catalogue General des MSS. des Bibliotheques Publiqites des Bepartements de France, vol. vi., p. 209). Guibert was also the author of several volumes of sermons. Vellum ; £f. 62. ziiith cent. In double columns, of 34 lines. Initial letters in red, blue, and green. A few marginal notes in a later hand. Small Quarto. 37. " Hencheridiom Magistri Alani [de Insulis] de Conquestione Naturae " : a treatise against immorality, in mixed prose and verse, beg. " In lacrimas risus, in luotus gaudia verto." Printed in Migne, Patrologia, vol. ccx. 429-482. At the end, in a somewhat later hand and on two leaves which originally formed part of a different volume, are : — (a) a poem, containing a philosophical discussion of the nature of the world, beg. " Deolarare fidem quis ait vos detrahit error," ending " Omnipotens opifex opus ammirabile mundi | Eecit et archetipon tribuit qui sensilis esset." f. 36; — and (b) Ehyming verses (written as prose), beg. " Omne datum optimum et donum perfectum | Apud patrem luminum nil est in- perfectum," and ending " Ergo sancta trinitas, deus tarn mirabUis, | Humanata deltas, simplex ineffabilis, | In die iudicii sis nobis placabilis." f. 36 b. Vellum; ff. 36. "Written in France, in the xiiith cent.; with illuminated initials. Octavo. 38. " A TEETis Jiat suflSsi]? to eche cristen man and womman to lyuen jjeraftir," beg. " This tretis compilid of a pore caitif," and hence commonly known as " The Poor Caitiff." The authorship has been Cl. III. THEOLOGY, etc. 23 attributed to Wiclif, but see Shirley, Fasciculi Zizaniorum, 1858, p. xiii. n. 3. The headings of the different sections of the work are as follows : — (Ij the bileeve; (2) of jje ten heestis ; (3) Pater noster ; (4) the oounceil of Crist ; (5) of virtuous pacience ; (6) of temptaoioun ; (7) chartir of hevene ; (8) hors eijjir armer of hevene ; (9) the name of Jesus; (10) desir of Jesus; (11) of verri mekenesse ; (12) the effect of wille; (13) actif lijf and contem- platif lijf; (14) myrrour of chastite ; (15) of glorious virgynyte. The colophon runs, " Here eendij? Jjis blessid tretis ]?' is coun- ceilour of wrecchis . deo gratias." At the beginning of the volume is a calendar, of which the last leaf, containing Nov. and Dec, is missing. Vellum; ff. 161. xvth cent. Initials of months in the calendar and of chapters illuminated. On the first fly-leaf (f. 1 b) are rules for ascertaining the date of the moon's changes, in a 16th-cent. hand; and at the end (f. 159) are some doggrel rhymes concerning one Bentley of Cheveley [Cheveley, co. Cambr., or Chieveley, CO. Berks?], in a similar hand. The last leaf (f. 161) is from a moral treatise of the same character as that contained in the body of the volume, and of the same date, the passage being explanatory of Cant. Cantt. i. 2. On f. 159 b are the names, as owners, of Denis Beke and Isabella Beke [16th cent.]; and on ff. 1 b, 158- the name of John Bridges (06. 1724), "ex dono Eickman." Large Octavo. 39. 1. The Abbey of the Holy Ghost ; an allegorical treatise, generally ascribed (e.g. by Bale, Pits, and the biographical dictionaries) to John Alcock, Bishop successively of Eoohester, Worcester, and Ely, and founder of Jesus College, Cambridge (oh. 1500). This is certainly wrong, as the treatise occurs in a MS. of the xivth cent. [Add. MS. 22,283, f. 165], as well as in the present one, which belongs to the first half of the xvth cent. Begins, "My dere syster, I se Jjat many wuld be in religyon, bot jjai may noght " ; ends " God graunt it so to be :' Amen, Amen, pro charite.'' In the printed edition of Wynkyn de Worde this beginning is found at the foot of p. 3, and from there to p. 12 the narratives are the same. In other MSS. [Harl. 1704 and 2406, Add. 22,288] the portion contained in this MS. forms a separate part by itself, the rest of the contents of the printed edition (both that which precedes and that which follows the portion above defined) forming a second part with a distinct introduction. The two pages following the end of the story (if. 8 b, 9) contain rude coloured drawings of the foundation of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost, the persons mentioned in the allegory, etc. 24 STOWE MSS., 39, 40. 2. The Desert of Eeligion ; a series of drawings of trees representing the various virtues and vices, explained by short descriptions in English verse, together with portraits of various saints, also described in verse. On the first page is a picture of the Virgin and Child. The poem is headed " Elongavi fugiens et mansi m solitudine," and begins : — " David J)at prophet was ay -^ In Jje sauter boke J7us here we say.^ Eleand I fled fro more to les r" And duelled in herd wyldernes." There are 22 full-page drawings and the same number of smaller ones ; and the poem ends : — " Vnto be whilke ioye he us bryng .-^ pat for oure sake on rode gun hyng : pore to duell w* holy men -^ W outen ende. Amen. Amen." On the last leaf is a representation of Death, armed with a spear, confronting a knight, a king, and an archbishop, with verses appropriate to each ; those belonging to Death run thus : — " Be je wele now warre w* me My name Jjon is ded May ye none fro me fle pat any lyfe gun led Kynge kaser jjen no knyght Ne clerke Jjat can on boke rede Beest ne foghel ne ojjer wyght Bot I sal make J)am dedde." Another drawing of similar character occupies the reverse of the leaf. The letter J7 is throughout written as a dotted y. A second copy of this poem exists in Cotton MS. Faustina B. vi., part 2 ; and the authorship of it is ascribed in the table of contents prefixed to that MS. to Hilton the anchorite, i.e. presumably Walter Hilton, a Carthusian monk who flourished about 1440 and was the author of the " Scala Perfectionis " and other moral works. If this ascription is correct, both this and the Cotton MS. are contemporary with the author ; but Sir F. Madden in a note at the beginning of the work in the latter MS. expresses his belief that it is without authority, and due to a confusion with Hilton's prose treatise on the Contemplative Life {sc. the Scala Perfectionis). Vellum; ff. 34. First half of xvth cent. "With illuminated initials. Belonged successively to the Eev. — Gastrell, Eichard Greene, apothecary, of Lichfield (1756), whose book-plate it bears, and Tho. Astle (1767). On a louse sheet at the end is a glossary Gl. III. THEOLOGY, etc. 25 of words, and at the beginning, in Astle's hand, a biography of Bishop Alcock, the supposed author of the contents of the volume. 40. "De saceo Jesu Christi triumpho hahito Lauduni adversus daemonem mulierculae corpus agitantem compendiosa historia " : a narrative, in Latin, of certain miracles alleged to have occurred at Laon in 1665 and 1566, edited by Jean Boulaese, priest first of Chartres and then of Laon, professor " literarum sacrarum et hebraicarum," and " pauper coUegii mentis acuti " [Montagu College] at Paris. Several versions of the afiair are given, the contents of the volume being as follows: — (1) Narrative of Christopher de Hericourt, Dean of Laon, entitled as above, and preceded by a letter from him to Pope Pius V., dated 19 March, 1569, some verses addressed to the author by Claude Eoillet, Canon of Laon, and a letter from Boulaese to the reader, dated 28 Oct. 1570, introducing De Hericourt's work as well as his own four narratives which follow ; at the end is the certificate of approba- tion of the Paris faculty of theology, f. 5 ; — (2) Various letters to and from Boulaese in 1565, 1568, and 1569, testifying to his character, f. 20 ; — (3) First narrative of Boulaese, entitled " Summa victorise per corpus Christi contra Beelzebub, Launduni, 1565, habitse historia," dedicated to the Pope [Pius Y.] and cardinals, and attested at the end by the signature of Boulaese, dated 28 Oct. 1570. f. 25 ; — (4) Second narrative of Boulaese, bearing the same date at the end, entitled " Ejectio principis huius mundi et dsemoniorum Beelzebub," and dedicated to the Cardinal [Charles] of Lorraine, Archbishop of Eeims. f. 37; — (5) Third narrative of Boulaese, entitled " Manuale victorise corporis Christi," and dedicated to Cardinal Hieronymus de la Souchi^re, Abbot of Clairvaux ; it is attested by the signature of Boulaese, with the same date. f. 51 ; — (6) Fourth narrative of Boulaese, entitled " Thesaurus historise victorias corporis Domini contra Beelzebub habitee." f. 92. The last is much the most complete version, containing a comparison of the narrative of De Hericourt with the third of Boulaese, and giving an account of the public investiga- tion into the matter and the depositions of the witnesses. The signature of Boulaese recurs at the end. An engraved plate is inserted (f. 30), giving representations of several incidents in the narrative, and an explanation of it is given in the first three narratives of Boulaese. At the beginning (f. 1 b) is the certificate of approval granted to the book by Jean [de Bours], Bishop of Laon, 5 Nov. 1570; together with an attested record (f. 3 h) of the opinion of the two theologians appointed to examine the work, 30 Oct. 1570. The 26 STOWE MSS., 41-49. narrative was written [originally in^ French and subsequently in Latin, the former as well as. the latter being by Boulaese, as stated on f. 104. The former was printed at Paris in 1575. Paper ; ff. 228. SmaU Polio. 41. Teanslation of the dialogue entitled " Octavius," in defence of Christianity, by M. Minucius Felix. The following note is appended : " Translated by my selfe at Pyrton in the Intervalls of my Hunting & Hawking times. Anno 1632 : I dare not say well, but as I coulde. Ignosoat Lector. Henry Knappe." Paper; ff. 37. Folio. 42. " XVI. Kevelations of Divine Love shewed to a Devout Servant of our Lord, called Mother Juliana, an Anchorite of Norwich : who lived in the days of King Edward the third." By H[ugh] Cressy, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1625, who became a Eoman Catholic in 1646 and died in 1674 (c/. Wood, Aihense Oxonienses, vol. iii. coll. 1011-1015). The work is dedicated to Lady Mary Blount of Sodington, widow of Sir George Blount, and was printed in 1670. Paper ; ff. 96. Book-plate of John Hadden Hindley. Small Quarto. 43. " The Light in Darkness, or The True Eeligion long sought, at last found out, amongst all the religions of the world here men- tion'd, by Martin Brethon, a true prozelyte to the Church of England, Aug. 26, 1685"; consisting of a dictionary of churches, sects, and religious opinions, in alphabetical order, concluding with a " Corollarium," in which the author declares his adhesion to the Church of England, " where is to be seen idolatry nor superstition, purgatory nor indulgences, pretended miracles nor supererogations, beads nor pilgrimages, iavocation of saints nor transubstantiation, infallibility nor universality, human tradi- tions nor ceremonies are boasted of as articles of faith or divine institution against divine institution." Under the heading " Pope " is a vigorous attack on the Church of Eome, and under that of " Puritans " a reference to Monmouth's rebellion and "our incom- parable monarch James the Second." Paper ; ff. 55. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto. 44. Eeligious Meditations and Bible Texts, written by Margaret [Penn], wife of Anthony Lowther ; with a list of her family, and an account of the last illness and death of her eldest son, Eobert Lowther, in Jan. 169f. The last entry is of the death of her eldest surviving son. Sir William Lowther, 6 April, 1706. Paper; ff. 30. Polio. Cl. III. THEOLOGY, etc. 27 45. Two Seemons or treatises, on Prayer (Ps. xxxiv. 17) and on the Sacraments. The beginning and end of the latter are lost. At the head of the former is the name " Mr. Ewens." Paper ; ff. 49. Early xviiith cent. Duodecimo. 46. Drafts of, and notes for, sermons, hy the Kev. Philip Morant, Eector of St. Mary's, Colchester (oh. 1770). Paper ; ff. 66. Folio. 47. " The Famous Book intitled De Tribus Impostoribus, translated from the original Latin into French, and now faithfully Englished, with a preface, annotations, and additions by the French trans- lator " : an English version of the work published by Pierre Frederic Arpe in 1716, which professed to be a French translation of the book De Tribus Impostoribus [Moses, Christ, and Mahomet], often referred to in the Middle Ages, but never seen and in all probability never existent. Arpe pretends to have made his translation from a MS. of the original Latin which had been stolen from the Munich Library by a German officer after the battle of Blenheim, and which he had had in his possession for a short time. The contents sufficiently prove that it was written at the end of the 17th or beginning of the 18th century, instead of in the 13th, the date assigned to the original, which Arpe ascribes to Peter des Vignes, secretary to the Emperor Frederic II., about whose time the imaginary original is first mentioned. There is also extant a Latin version, professing to be the original, and bearing the date 1598, but believed to have been really printed in 1753 from MSS., of which one is known to have been bought at a sale in 1716. This differs wholly from the French version of Arpe (see De Tribus Impostoribus, texte Latin . . . par Philomneste Junior, Paris, 1861). The preface to the present translation differs in some of its contents from that of the French version, but the story of the acquisition of the pretended original MS. is the same. The contents are a criticism of Deism, Eeligion in general, the lives and religions of Moses, Christ, and Mahomet, and a discussion of " certain rational and evident truths " from a vague Deistic standpoint. Paper ; ff. 69. Late xviiith cent. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Quarto. 48. Genealogy of Christ from Judah son of Jacob j in the hand- writing of Thomas Astle. Paper roll, xviiith cent. 49. Legenda Aueea, by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa [1292-1298]. The prologue, " Universum tempns prsesentis vitas," 28 STOWB MSS., 50-52. etc., is headed " Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum quas oompilavit frater Jacobus, nacione Januensis, de ordine fratrum praedicatorum," and is followed by a table of contents. The work ends with the legend "de dedicatione EcolesiaB," and with the words (slightly different from the usual text), "quod ipse nobis prasstare dignetur ut ipse cuius iste liber est et ipsius procurator ipsiusque scriptor et omnis in ipsum cemens et legens aut aliquod verbum quod in eo continetur devote intelligens vitam perducat sempiternam et leticiam indefioientem ; Qui vivit et regnat cum Deo Patre in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia seoula seoulorum. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen." As in other early copies {e.g. Add. 11,882), the lives of SS. Sophia, Fabian, ApoUonia and Boniface are absent; while the titles of two lives ("de Sanctis Felicissimo et Agapeto " and " de sancto Tyburtio ") are inserted in the table of contents, but have nothing corresponding in the text. The name of the scribe is given in the following lines at the end : — " Qui non sum canus scripsi qui dicor Alanus, Sed niger in toto per corpus dente remote. Exoro Christum, librum qui cernit in istum, Ne quin invadat fine repente cadat." Vellum ; ff. 245. Early xivth cent. In double columns of 63 lines. With initials in red, blue, and green ; and grotesque drawings in pen and ink in the margins of several of the pages. An inscrip- tion at the bottom of f. 2 states that the book was presented to the Chapel of St. Stephen, Westminster, by Eobert de Blmham, canon of the same, who died there 8 March, 1365 [6]. Eobert de Elmham received a canonry of St. Stephen's in 1358 (Newcourt, JBepertorium Ecclesiasticum, vol. i. 745). On the last leaf is a memorandum by Sir Eoger Twysden, that he bought the volume from Stephen Potts, a bookseller of Aldersgate Street, London, about 1626. SmaU Folio. 50, 51. La Legende DoEfe : the French version of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Yoragine, made by Jean de Yignay, circ. 1340, including the additional Lives given by De Vignay for which there is no original in Jacobus. There are in all 236 narratives, including those which refer to Festivals as well as the Lives of the Saints. Begins, without title, with the rubric " Cy comence le prologue de lacteur de ce liure," etc., which introduces the trans- lator's preface, beg. "Monseigneur saint iherome." The author's preface follows, beg. " Le temps de ceste presente vie," f. 1 b. The table of contents begins on f. 2, and the text of the work on f. 4. In two volumes. The last Life is that of St. Aubin [Albinus], Cl. hi. theology, etc. 29 ending with the words " du benoit saint le pere le filz et le saint esperit. Amen." This MS., or one very closely resemhling it, appears to he the original from which the copy 1275 h. 3 in the British Museum [undated, described in the Catalogue as 1480?] was printed. They agree in omitting the names of SS. Sebastien, Losmer, and Donat from the table of contents, though their Lives are given in the text. After the Life of Ste. Waudrut, with which the first volume of the MS. ends, a blank space of nearly a leaf is left in the printed copy, so as to begin the next Life at the beginning of a new leaf. Further, the water-mark of the paper of the MS. [a shield bearing three fleurs-de-lis, with a cross' pendant below] is identical with that of the first 77 folios of the printed copy. Paper, except vol. i., ff. 1 and 10, which are vellum. Two vols. ; ff. 242 and 282. Late xvth cent. The original foliation is continuous through the two vols., from i. to y'^xxx. ; but in vol. i. ff. 77-86 are misplaced between flF. 20 and 21, and in vol. ii. ff. 409-528 are misplaced between ff. 529 and 530, with which the volume ends. In double columns of 43 lines. The first page is orna- mented with a miniature and decorative border. On the last page of vol. ii. is the name of Jacques Losien as owner, in a 16th-cent. hand. Folio. 52. " YiTA beati Thomse archiepiscopi et martiris " : the Quadrilogus, or compilation by E[lias ?] of Evesham, from the four Lives by John of Salisbury, Herbert of Boseham, William of Canterbury, and Alan, Abbot of Tewkesbury. The prologue begins "Post summi favoris dote vestitos," and the Life itself " Thomas Londoniensis urbis indigena." It ends (f. 64 b) " dies suos non dimidiarent." Printed in the EoUs Series, Materials for the History of Arclibishop Thomas Bechet, vol. iv., the present MS., however, not being mentioned. The following documents are appended to the Life (as in Harl. MS. 2, Lupus' printed edition, etc.) : (a) " Cathalogus eruditorum beati Thomse," omitting the paragraphs concerning Herbert de Boseham and Edward Grim, and ending with the words "patronos conquisivit" (Rolls ed., vol. iii. p. 529, § 60). f. 64b;— (b) "Causa exilii et martirii beati Thomse martiris," viz. the Constitutions of Clarendon, f. 66 b ; — (c) " Alise constitutiones . . . quas constituit rex Henricus in Normannia, proscripto beato Thoma " [Michaelmas, 1169] : cf. Polls ed., vol. vii. p. 147. f. 67 b ;— (d) " Epistola missa archiepiscopo super hiis " : the letter of a friend, giving the tenor of the king's orders [Michaelmas, 1169]: ibid., -p. 146. f. 68; — (e) " LittersB de canonizatione beati Thomas," from Pope 30 STOWE MSS., 63. Alexander III. to the Chapter of Canterbury [12 March, 1173] : ibid., p. 545. f. 68 ; — (f) Letter of Pope Alexander on the same subject to the clergy and people of England, on the same date : ibid., p. 547. f. 68 b ; — (g) Letter of Pope Alexander annotincing the canonization to [Walter] Bishop of Aversa : ibid., p. 649. f. 68 b. At the bottom of the first page of the Life are three hexameter lines, giving the names of Becket's murderers, in a hand of the early 14th cent. ; and on the last page, in apparently the same hand, are nine hexameter verses, beginning " Balsamus et munda," containing the manner of constructing a symbolical " Agnus Dei " (c/. Harl. MS. 2406, f. 10). At the beginning are three leaves (£F. 1-3), and at the end four (ff. 70-73), taken from a 13th-oent. MS. of the Decretal of G-ratian (completed in 1161), Part II., Causae xii.-xvi. (c/. Migne, Patrologia, vol. clxxxvii. coll. 903-992). The " paleas " are absent, and many sections which are given in Migne are omitted. VeUum ; £f. 73. xnith cent. In double columns of 38 lines, except in the first two leaves and a half, which are in a better and slightly larger hand, with 29 or 30 lines to the column. Initials of chapters in red and blue ; titles in red. Belonged (see f. 4) to Laurence Nowell [Dean of Lichfield, etc.,o6. 1576]. Small Quarto. 53. " The Lives of Women Saints of our Contrie of England ; also some other lives of holie women written by some of the auncient fiathers." A compilation of the early 17th century, including the following Lives, for some of which the sources are quoted : — SS. Helena (from Baronius). f. 21 b ; — Ursula (from H. Flien [Hermann Fleien, whose work was published in 1594], Dean of St. Cunibert, etc., " in our age "). f. 25 b ; — Keyna. f. 27 b ; Brigide. f. 28; — Dympna (from Peter of Cambray). f. 30; Edburge. f. 34 b ;— Eanswide. f. 36 ;— Ethelburge. f. 36 b;— Sexburge. f. 38 ;— Hilda, f. 39 b ;— Ermenilde. f. 41 b ; — Wer- burge. f. 42 ;— Milburge. f. 43 ;— Mildrede. f. 44 b ;— Ebba. f. 46 b; — Etheldred or Audrie (from Bede). f. 48; — Kinesburge, Kineswide and Tibbe. f. 51 b ;— Ethelburge. f. 63 b ;— Hildelitha'. f. 65 ;— Cuthburge. f. 56 ;— Withburge. f. 57 b ;— Inthware. f. 68 ;— Frideswide. f. 58 b ;— Walburge. f. 60 b ;— Wenefride f. 65 b;— Modwen. f. 68;— Ositha. f. 72 b ;— Maxentia. f. 74; — Oswen or Osman. f. 76;— Elflede. f. 76;— Edith, f. 77 b;— Wulfhilde. f. 79 ;— Margaret, f. 82 b ;— Mectilde (" out of a verie good author that lived a little after, to weete, 1238 "). f. 86. In the second part are contained the Lives of SS. Monica (from St. Augustine), f. 91 ;— Agnes (from St. Ambrose), f. 114;— Crorgonia (from St. Gregory Nazianzen). f. 124 b ;— Nonna (from the Cl. in. THEOLOGY, etc. 31 same), f. 139b;— Julitta (from St. Basil), f. 149;—" A Christian maide captive in Iberia." f. 152 b ; and Macrina (from St. Gregory of Nyssa). f. 155 b ; — witli a miracle by St. Macrina's grandfather. f. 178. To the whole is prefixed (f. 3) an essay entitled " Why God hath provided in his Christian Contries some famous Saintes above the common sorte " ; with a note on Scotch and Irish saints, and extracts from the Fathers on the excellence of virgins and widows. Indices are given to both parts. Paper; ff. 181. Early xviith cent. On the first fly-leaf is the name of Tho. Astle, with a note by him that the MS. has not been printed, and that the Lives in it differ from those published in Britannia Saneta. Small Quarto. CLASS IV. HISTOEY. SECT. I.— GENEEAL AND MISCELLANEOUS. 54. Les livees des Histoiees du commencement du monde : a universal history in French from the time of Laius of Thebes to B.C. 60. Begins, " Un Eoy estoit adono en thebes " ; ends, " quil nen estoit nulla qui grament fust grevable par trestout le monde. Et oe fu Ian quil ot sept cens ans que la cite de Eome avoit este comenciee a faire." The contents are as follows : — The story of Thebes, from the birth of OEdipus to the capture of the city by Theseus (ff. 2-25) ; the story of Hercules (ff. 25-30) ; the foundation of Troy, the story of Jason and the Golden Tleece, the siege and capture of Troy by Hercules and Jason, and the deaths of these two heroes (ff. 31-45); the second siege of Troy, told at great length " sicomme dient ditis et daires poetes," i.e. Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius (ff. 45b-211); the return of the Greeks (f. 212), with the adventures of Pyrrhus (f. 221 b), and the death of Ulysses (f. 226) ; and the life and exploits of Landomatha, son of Hector (f. 228 b). Then follows the story of iEneas (ff. 231 b-253) ; after which comes the history of the kings of Assyria, Media, and Persia, including the wars with Greece, down to the death of Xerxes, with a short summary to Artaxerxes Mnemon (ff. 258 b-266). Next comes the history of Eome, from the birth of Eomulus to the return of Pompey from his eastern campaigns (ff. 266 b-4:14), where it ends abruptly. The first portion of the work, relating to Thebes and Hercules, is identical with the Fleur des Histoires of Jehan Mansel. All that relates to Troy, from the mission of Jason to the death of Ulysses, is a close paraphrase in prose of the Eoman de Troie of Benoit de Sainte-More, into which the author has interpolated paraphrases of several of the Heroidum Epistolae of Ovid, without much reference to their appropriateness to the context. Cf. A. Joly's Benoit de Sainte-More et le Boman de Troie, let part, p. 424. The episode of Landomatha is taken from the continuation of Benoit found in some MSS. The author then returns to the Pleur des Histoires, the story of Jllneas following the jSlneid closely, with an Ol. IV. HISTOEY. 33 exoursiis on the Trojan origin of the kings of France. The remainder of the work is taken from the same source, the portions relating to the Oriental kingdoms being, however, grouped together before the commencement of the story of Eome, while those which deal with scriptural history and the history of Alexander are omitted altogether ; the history of Eome running on continuously, with only a digression to show the descent of the Bretons from Brutus the first consul of Eome. The end coincides with that of the first part of the Fleur des Histoires. Another copy of this work is contained in Eoyal MS. 20 D. i., and there is one in the Bibliotheque Rationale, no. 301 (formerly 6925) ; c/. Joly, I. c. The title given above is quoted from these copies, there being none in the present MS. Vellum ; ff. 414. xvth cent. Contains 4 full-page and 2 half- page miniatures (ff. 30 b, 83, 185 b, 203 and ff. 82 b, 206 b), with 31 of smaller size, 2 being inserted in the text and 29 on the lower margin of the page ; nearly all are near the beginning of the MS. Two columns to the page, of 38 lines each. Titles of chapters in red, and initial letters of paragraphs in red, blue, and gold. On f . 1 b are the arms (16th cent.), paly of six, argent and gules, of the seigneurs d'EsgreviUe [given in Add. MS. 26,693, f. 488, as arg. three pallets gu.] ; and on the last page is the device of a basket encircled with a crown and suspended on a thorn branch, with the motto on a scroll "E non plus." Over this is written in a 16th-cent. hand " Pour lalibrairie d'Esgreville." Bound in pigskin, stamped with the arms of Jean Jacques Charron, Marquis de Menars (oh. 1718). Polio. 55. " Cheonologia turn Sacra tum profana et Eomana," from Sulpicius Severus, Justinus, Cornelius Nepos, Plorus, Paterculus, etc. It begins with the Creation, and was intended to be carried down to the death of Augustus, but actually ends in B.C. 354, which is given as a.m. 6098, 01. cvi. 3, and a.u.c. 401. Compiled by John Eeynolds, M.A., Fellow of Eton College [1745-1758], Canon of Exeter, and Master of the Grammar School at Exeter. Paper; ff. 32. Small Folio. 56. A Collection of historical and romantic works, in Latin, viz. : — 1. "Historia de lehrusalem," in three books, with a Prologue, by " Baldricus, Burguliensium fratrum abbas, postea vero . . . Dolensium archiepiscopuB " : the History of the First Crusade, 1095-1099, by Baudri, Abbot of Bourgueil (1079) and Archbishop of Dol (1107, oh. 1130). f. 2. See the Becueil des Sistoriens des Croisades, vol. iv. Paris, 1879, D 34 STOWE MSS., 56. pp. 9-111. As there printed, the penultimate sentence of Baudri's work ends, " Christianitas ubique terrarum, Deo gratias, exaltata est" (p. 110). In the present copy (f. 46) these words are followed, without a break, by " Sic itaque nostri triumphantes et deo gratias agentes, spoliis eorum et armis et tentoriis onerati, ad castra regressi sunt," and the history is continued down to a.d. 1106. This continuation agrees with chaps, xxxix. (mid.)-lxxii. of the anony- mous " Gesta Francorum expugnantium Iherusalem " printed in the Becueil, vol. iii., 1866, pp. 518D-543, including the verses at the end, 'Venerandus Podiensis Aimarus episcopus," etc. These lines are here followed (f. 59) by ten others, beg. " Contigit in nostris quiddam, Taruenna, diebus," referring to the first two kings of Jerusalem, Godfrey and Baldwin (ob. 1118), and the first two Latin patriarchs. The names of the latter are given in the last two lines : — " Primus Euermarus sedit patriarcha sepulcri ; Post hunc Arnulfus, oriundus uterque Cikes." Properly speaking, Daimbert was the first Patriarch (1100); Ebremar, who was a native of Ciokes in Terouanne, succeeding on his deposition in 1103-4, and being himself succeeded by Gibelin (1107-1111). Arnoul de Eohes, who followed (1111-1118), was thus the fourth Patriarch. The same lines, with fourteen others in addition, are printed by Martene and Durand, Vett. Script, amplissima Golleciio, 1729, v. col. 539. 2. Brief summary of Norman history down to the accession of Henry I. of England, abridged from the work of William of Jumieges and its continuation, f. 59. Begins : " Tempore Ludouici cognomento ' Nihil fecit ' et Karoli simplicis filii eius." Ends : " sicque cum Anglia etiam Normanniam optinuit." 3. The History of the Trojan War, by Dares Phrygius ; said to have been translated from Greek into Latin by Cornelius Nepos. f. 64. The introductory epistle has the rubric : " Incipit epistola Comelij ad Crispum Salustium in Troianorum historia, que in greco a Darete hystoriographo facta est." The History is headed : " Incipit hystoria Daretis Troianorum Erigii . de greco translata in latiaum a Comelio Nepote." The text is divided by coloured initials into 38 sections, including the two supplementary sections, " Quis Troianorum quern Grecorum occiderit " and " Quis Greoorura quern Troianorum occiderit." See the Catalogue of Bomanoes in the British Museum, vol. i. p. 12. Ci. IV. HISTOEY. 35 4. ApoUonius of Tyre : supposed to be a translation of an early- Greek romance, f. 75. Title: "Inoipit historia AppoUonii Eegis Tyrii." The text is not divided into cbapters or sections. Begins : " Fuit quidem rex Antioohus nomine." Ends : " et dno uolumina fecit, unum Diane in templo Ephesiorum et aliud bibliothece sue." The riddles propounded by " Tharsia" to ApoUonius (f. 85) are only seven in number, viz.: 1. Unda; 2. Navis; 3. Balneus ; 4. Spongia; 5. Sphsera; 6. Speculum; 7. Soalse. See the Gat. of Bomances, vol. i. p. 161. 5. " Hystoria de Alexandre rege magno Macedonum " : the abridg- ment of the Latin work of Julius Valerius, translated by him from the Greek of Pseudo-Callisthenes. f. 87 b. See the Gat. of Bomances, vol. i. p. 106. Not divided into chapters. Begins : " Egipti sapientes fati (sc. sati) de genere divino primi feruntur." Ends : " uino et ueneno superatus atque extinctus occubuit." 6. The letter of Alexander to Aristotle on the Marvels of India, usually appended to the abridgment of Julius Valerius, as above, f. 99 b. Title : " Inoipit epistola Alexandri regis magni Macedonum ad Aristotilem magistrum suum de itinere et situ Indie." Begins : " Semper memor tui etiam inter dubia bellorum nostrorum." Ends : " animo et industria, optime Aristotile, sponde." See the Gat. of Bomances, vol. i. pp. 108, 131. 7. Letters between Alexander and Dindimus, king of the Brahmins, f. 106 b. The first letter is headed : " Inoipit epistola Alexandri ad Dindimum regem Bragmanorum"; and thesecond: "Prima responsio Dindimi regis Bragmanorum contra Alexandrum regem magnum Macedonum." The letters severally begin: 1. Alex., " Sepius ad aures meas fando peruenit." f. 106 b ; — 2. Bind., " Desideranter (-tern), Alexander, te scire." f. 107 ; — 3. Alex., " Si hec ita sunt, ut asseris." f. 110 ; — 4. Dind., " Nos, inquit Dindimus, non sumus incole huius mundi." f. 110; — 5. Alex., " Tu nunc ideo beatum." f. 110 b. The text agrees with that of the letters as printed by Sir Edw. Bysshe, Palladius de Geniihus Indise, etc., Loudon, 1665, p. 85. See also the Gat. of Bomances, vol. i. p. 137. 8. Historia regum Britannise, by Geoffrey of Monmouth. In ten books, with the prologue " Cum meeum multa," etc. f. Ill b. Divided into chapters, without numbers, by initials in red. Bk. i. is headed " Inoipit Brittanice hystorie liber primus." The prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin, and the epistle to Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, are at the end of Bk. vi. (f. 149 b), Bk. vii. D 2 36 STOWE MSS., 57. beginning the Prophecies, with the words " Sedente itaque Uorte- girno." See the Gat. of Bomances, vol. i. p. 203. Vellum; £f. 185. About a.d. 1200. In double columns of 34 lines ; initials in red and green. In brown leather binding, stamped with the arms of Sir James Ley, Bart. (1619), afterwards Baron Ley (1624) and Earl of Marlborough (1626). Quarto. 67. " Scutum Bede. Collectivvs Gaufridi de Vfford" : a collection of Latin treatises, moral, grammatical, and historical, in mixed prose and rhyming verse, viz. : — 1. List of vices, tabulated in four classes, with the reason why each should be avoided, e.g. " Irascere noli. Quare? Quia ira uiri iustitiam dei non operatur." Followed by ten lines of verse, beg. " Hgc figura scutum dicta Bede t' in partes octo picta." The article is not the same as the " Scutum Bede " in the Bodleian Library (Bernard's Catalogus, no. 1953, now no. 630). f. 1 b. 2. Exhortation to the study of letters, f. 2. Beg. : " Noli mi fili monitum mispendere vili Cipus erit laudis, si qug pater edocet audis." Ends : " Hinc alphabetis primis insisto dietis. Quo mage scriptura tali pateat mihi cura." After this follow (f. 3) tables of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin alphabets, numerals, etc., together with (f. 3 b) " Litterg Norm[ann]orum qug dicuntur run-stafes " (so. runes), and (f. 4) " Caracteres i^thyci phylosophi " (c/. H. Wuttke, Gosmographia Mihici, 1853, p. 85). 3. Explanation of certain signs of notation, as the asteriscus, obelus, etc. ; in verse, with glosses in prose, chiefly from Isidore's Etymo- logiarum lib. i. cap. 21 (Migne, Ixxxii. col. 96). f. 4 b. Beg. : " In quibusdam laborare Sensum excedentibus Uisu'm quasi delirare Est discretis mentibus." 4. Instructions for the pronunciation of letters, beg. " Annotatis superius quarundam gentium quibusdam alphabetis et scripturarum notulis.'' f. 5. This and the two preceding articles apparently form one work. 5. Abstract of Bible History, etc., with continuations including a Chronicle of England to 1154. f. 5 b. Begins with a prologue explaining the author's intentions in undertaking the work, beg. : — Cl. IV. HISTOET. 37 " Tot et tanti traotauere De raptis temporibus, Precellentes qui fuere Et uerbis et moribus. Sed me causg commouere Prinoipales geinin§. Quod, si mentem exercere Uellem uerbi semine, Plus liceret bis studere, Uiri quis et feming Ad exemplum refulsere Diffidente nemine, Et ut micbi manualem Librum Hnc conficerem In quo summam mox annalem Dubitans oonspicerem." The preface begins on f. 6 b, with the words " Infra rerum huma- narum varios nobilesque circuitus." The materials of the work are so arranged as to show the influence of the number seven (" septenarii numeri mysterium," f. 7 b). It opens with a state- ment of the nature of the Trinity, beg. " De conditione creaturarum Terba prolaturus " (f. 8 b), which is followed by an account of the Creation. Then, as a preliminary to the narrative of the pro- ceedings of man on the earth, comes a dissertation on the seven liberal arts (f. 15). The Bible narrative follows, prose and verse being intermixed in it, following the order of the books, and including an abstract of the Mosaic law ; the period of the kings is described very summarily (ff. 19 b-74 b). A short note by the author (f. 75) introduces the account of the Captivity and of the interval between the Old and New Testaments, with which are joined lists of the kings of Assyria, Media, Persia, Sicyon, Egypt, Argos, Athens, Thebes, Lacedsemon, Corinth, Macedonia, Lydia, and Babylon (ff. 75-87). After a fresh metrical prologue, beg. " Deoantaturus nova carmina, postpositurus Pristina " (f. 88), and a list of heresies (f. 88 b), comes a short abstract of the New Testament history and the spread of the Gospel, and the persecutions under various emperors to the fall of the Western Empire (ff. 90 b-100). The subjects now become historical, including lists of the kings and emperors of Rome, the kings of Prance from their origin from Antenor of Troy to Louis VI. [1108-1137], and the dukes of the Lombards (ff. 100-108). The author then introduces a geographical description of the different parts of the earth (ff. 108 b-113), taken from Orosius and other authorities, and concludes the whole of this part of the work with some rhyming verses on death, beg. " MortO ruunt qug uiua fluunt sub culmine celi " (ff. 113 b, 114). A fresh preface follows (£ 114 b), with references to the remaining contents either of this MS. or of one from which it is copied, beg. " Ad id usque temporis " ; to which is added a verse address to the reader. Then comes a list of the popes (f. 116 b), which is very incomplete ; the last names, apparently in a later hand than the rest, are 38 STOWE MSS., 57, 58. Eugemus [?III., 1145], Adrian [?IV., 1154], Innocent [a mistake], and Alexander [?III., 1159-1181]. After a blank page comes a verse prologue to a chronicle of England (f. 119 b), beg. : " Trium gentnm generamen Edicturus breuiter Ut eanim lineamen Intendatur leniter Brittg, Anglg, Normanngqne, Prgualentis cgteris, Scripta sequor lancis gqug Ponderantis ueteris." The chronicle begins (f. 120) " Dardanus ex Jove et Electra." It includes a list of the Heptarohic kings, and ends abruptly with the coronation of Henry II. [1154] ; in a list which follows, the names of "Henricus filius H. ii.," Eichard and John are added in a different hand. At the end are the following lines (f. 144) : — "Explicit Anglorum series Britonumque priorum, Attigit Henrici qug tempora pacis amioi Eegis in hac gente, Stephano prius antra tenente, Edita quam breuiter, ut pateat leuiter." 6. " Libellus de Virtutibus et Vitiis," in verse of various metres. f. 146. Begins : " Virtutum formam vitiorum monstra notando." Preceded (f. 144 b) by some introductory lines, beg. : — " Motus morum uitg signum Gestorum indicium." 7. " De Natura Jumentorum, Bestiarum, et cunctorum Animalium," including lists of names of animals (with the Anglo-Saxon or Norman names sometimes added in another hand), precious stones, trees and plants, f. 156. Begins, " Omnibus animantibus Adam prius uocabula indidit." Preceded (f. 155 b) by some introductory lines, beg. : — " Post volumen consignatum ante ceu putauimus In cor uenit commutatum hoc quod exarauimus De naturis bestiarum uolucrum et uermium Lapidumque et herbarum arborum et piscium.'' 8. " Medicing quas probaverunt Ypocras, Aristotiles, Paulus, Plato, Cosmas et Damianus " : various medical recipes, beg. " In primis ad capitis dolorem." f. 166 b. In the margin of the last page is a recipe in verse, " De plaga " beg. :— ' " Hgc est curandg ualidissima potio plagg." The colophon of the whole work runs : " Hie collectiuus doctring per loca riuus Explicit, intentos satians, renuens male lentos." Cl. IV. HISTORY. 39 With regard to the title " SciitTim Bede" (see ahove, p. 36), Leland (De Scriptoribus Britannicis, p. 118) mentions a grammatical work called " scutum Bedee " among the works falsely attributed to Bede. This title, however, would apparently apply only to the grammatical extracts on ff. 1-5 ; but the name of the author, Geoffrey de Ufford, probably applies to the whole volume. The work must have been originally compiled early in the reign of Henry II. The text is accompanied throughout by a great quantity of marginal and interlinear glosses, apparently in the same hand, in which various authorities are quoted, including Hugo de S. Victore (f. 14), who died in 1142. Vellum ; ff. 166. Circ. 1200. Initials coloured and ornamented. Leaves have been cut out between if. 1 and 2, 63 and 54 (two), 86 and 87, 118 and 119 (two), 162 and 163. The volume contains the autographs of Thomas Hatcher (1611) and Thomas Martin of Palgrave (1729). SmaU FoHo. SECT. II.— ENGLISH. 58. " Liber Abbathise de Hyde juxta Winton " : a chronicle of the affairs of England, from the settlement of the Saxons to the reign of Cnut, with copies of charters, etc., relating to Newminster, after- wards Hyde Abbey, Winchester, where the work was compiled. Printed in the EoUs Series, 1866 (ed. Edw. Edwards), from an early 15th cent. MS. belonging to the Earl of Macclesfield. The present copy, which does not appear to have been known to the above editor, is imperfect, beginning in the middle of ch. vii. (Rolls ed.,p. 14), and ending in the middle of ch.xix. (ibid., p. 192). The arrangement of the latter portion of the MS. differs considerably from that of the printed edition. There is another copy (from the Macclesfield MS.) in the hand of John Stow, 1572, in Lansdowne MS. 717. Paper ; ff. 70. xvith-xviith cent. Belonged to Peter Le Neve, Norroy, in 1704 (f. 3) ; to Joseph Edmondson, Mowbray Herald, in 1765 (f. 1) ; and to Dr. Andrew Coltee Ducarel, whose book-plate of arms is inserted, in 1766 (f. 1). At the sale of Dr. Ducarel's MSS. in 1786 it was purchased by Thomas Astle (f. 2). Inside the covers is also a second book-plate of arms, viz. : arg. a bull passant sable, armed or, within a bordure sa. bezanty (Cole ?), quartering chequy or and gu. on a chief az. a bar wavy arg. 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" JoHANNis regis vita " : extracts, chronologically arranged, from Eoger de Hoveden, Matthew Paris, Ealph de Coggeshall, and other chronicles, etc., chiefly taken from printed editions. With a few marginal notes by Sir Eoger Twysden. Paper; ff. 333. xviith cent. Polio. 62. HisTORiA Anglorum, to 1198, by William of Newburgh. In five books, each with a table of chapters; preceded by the author's dedicatory letter to Ernaldus, Abbot of Eievaulx, headed " Epistola Willelmi uiri religiosi canonici de nouoburgo prefaoionalis operis sequentis et apologetica ad abbatem Eieuallis." The text was used as the basis of the editions of T. Hearne, 1719, and E. Hewlett, EoUs Series, 1884, being probably copied from the author's rough draft. Owing to the loss of a quire (of 8 leaves) after f. 67 and two leaves after f. 100, Bk. iii. ch. 5-16 and Bk. iv. ch. 10-12 are wanting. The matter has been supplied by Sir Eoger Twysden from MS. 73 in the Lambeth Library (ed. Hearne, vol. i. p. 269, note 2). At the end, in a later hand of the 13th cent., are : (a) " Omelia super cum loqueretur lesus ad turbas," so. Luke xi. 27. f. 159 ; — (b) " Sermo de trinitate." The first column only, the following quire being lost. f. 166 b ;— (c) " Sermo de sancto Albano." The latter portion only. f. 167. These titles are from a list of contents, of the same date, on £ 2 b. The homilies are printed at the end of Hearne's edition of Will, of Newburgh (vol. iii. p. 817), the missing portions being supplied from the Lambeth MS. as above. Vellum; ff. 174. Circ. a.d. 1200. Written in double columns of 32 lines, with ornamental initials in red, blue, and green, and rubricated headings of chapters. At the head ot the table of Cl. IV. HISTOET. 41 contents (IStli cent.) and at the top of f. 3 (14th cent.) is inscribed " Liber sancte Marie de Nouo Burgo," sc. Newburgh Priory, co. York, of which house the author was a canon. The following names of owners also occur :— John Wells, 16th cent. (f. 2);— [Sir] Henry Spelman, " empt. 16 Aug. 1633, precium 16s." (f. 2 b) ;— [Sir] Koger Twysden (inside the cover). At the date of Hearne's edition the MS. belonged to Sir Thomas Sebright, Bart. (oh. 1736). Small Folio. 63. The Chronicle of Walter Hemingburgh (al. Hemingford, al. Walter de Gisburne), from the Conquest to 1312, in Latin. The first leaf has been cut out; the second begins with the words " Normannie clam direxit " (ed. Hamilton, vol. i. p. 6). Ends " terra siluit et quievit " (ibid., vol. ii. p. 296). After the history are three appendices, one entitled " Eegna Britannie sibi deinceps succe- dentia," giving a list of the successive governments of England, and a description of the seven kingdoms of the Heptarchy (f. 177) ; the second, " de episcopis maioris Britannie sive Anglie et eorum sedibus positis et translatis " (ff. 178-180) ; the third, a list of the nine principal rivers of England (f. 180 b). Colophon, "Soriptum manu mea Eogeri Dalyson olim hie scholastici gremialis," 1533 (? Eoger Dallison, Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge, 1523, Canon of Lincoln 1554, oh. 1566). On the fly-leaf (f. 1 b) is an index to the beginnings of reigns, and in a later hand the title " Gualteri Hemyngford canonici Grisburnensis Historia Eegum Anglorum a Gulielmo I. usque ad annum 6 Edw. II., viz. ab an. 1066 ad an. 1312." The Chronicle has been edited by Gale (1687), with completion by Hearne (1731), and by H. C. Hamilton (English Historical Society, 1848), but without mention of this MS. Yellum; ff. 180. a.d. 1533. With titles and initials of chapters in red. On f. 1 b is the inscription (16th cent.) "Edm. Hayes Emptus apud Windsor novam " ; and on f. 2 is the name of Sir Henry Spelman, which is repeated on the inside of the cover with the addition " precium xx\" Quarto. 64. The Polyghronicon of Eanulph Higden, in seven books, continued to 1377. No title, the first leaf of the index (which precedes the text) and the first two leaves of the text [from " Post praeclaros artium scriptores " to " Veritas non vacillet," ed. Babington and Lumby, Eolls Series, vol. i. p. 16] being cut out and supplied in a hand of the 16th cent. The text, after the Prologue, begins (f. 12 b) " Ex senatus consulto," and the sixth book ends (f. 201) " manus ei dederunt." The seventh book is in 51 chapters ; the continuation from 1342 begins in the middle of oh. 46 (f. 239 b), " die S. Nicholai 42 STOWE MSS., 65-67. obiit papa Clemens VI.," and ends with the preaching of Wiclif at Oxford in 1377, " palam in eorum sermonihus praedicantes." This continuation is identical with that contained in MS. 82 at Cains College, Cambridge [B in the Rolls Series edition], with which this MS. corresponds generally in text throughout (though including the section on Brabant, in bk. i. c. 28, which is wanting in B). There is no colophon or break at the year 1327, nor at 1342 ; but opposite the end of 1360 (f. 240) is written, in a later hand [apparently that of Ethelbert Burdet, see below], "hie finitur polioronicon compositum per Eanulphum monachum cestrensem et continuatur hec historia per Johannem Trevisam per 65 annos, ' with a quotation from the 1557 edition of Bale's Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Britanniae Catalogus, p. 518, on which the reference to Trevisa is apparently based, stating that the 65 years covered by the continuations are from 1342 to 1397. Vellum ; ff. 243. Early xvth cent. Initials of chapters in blue and red ; titles of chapters and references to authors in red ; 45 lines to the page. In the margin are dates and occasional notes. Belonged (see f. 2) to Ethelbert Burdet, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1546, Canon of Lincoln 1565 (Foster, Alumni Oxon., vol. i. p. 211), " ex dono M" Anthonii Masonii." Folio. 65. The Polychkonicon of Eanulph Higden, translated into English by John Trevisa ; in seven books. With three prefaces, the first beg. "Aftir solempne and wijse writeris of artis and sciencis." The text does not agree completely with that of any of the MSS. collated for the edition in the Eolls Series. The following passages are supplied in a modern imitative hand : — Bk. i. oh. 5 (f. 4), " and wryte and certyfye " (ed. Babington and Lumby, EoUs Series, vol. i. p. 43) — ch. 15 (f. 10b), "with moneye and grete" (ed. cit. i. 125); — Bk. i. ch. 22 (f. 14), "sholde take yonglynges" (ed. cit. i. 183)— ch. 28 (f. 21 b), " in the northe the " (ed. cit. i. 295) ;— Bk. iv. ch. 16 (f. 103), "to wedde his vessels" (ed. cit. v. 31)— ch. 29 (f. Ill b), "Macharies one of Egypte " {ed. cit. v. 189);— Bk. vii. ch. 4 (f. 170), "The kynge of Fraunce scorned" (ed. cit. vii. 311)— ch. 8 (f. 173 b), "the fende had hym ofte" (ed. cit. vii. 377) ;— Bk. vii. ch. 44 (f. 399), " the kynges brother of Nauerne " (ed. cit. viii. 350) — end. The text of the portions thus supplied is largely taken from Caxton, including the false date 1357 [for 1387] at the end. The Chronicle is followed by other translations, etc., by Trevisa, viz. : — (a) " Dialogus inter clericum et militem " : a Dialogue on the spiritual and temporal power, beg. " Ich wondere, Bore noble kni3t," translated from the Latin of William Occam. f. 202 ; — (b) " Sermo dni. archiepiscopi Armacani [Eichard Fitz- Cl. IV. HISTORY. 43 Ealph] faotus Auinione 8° die mensis Nouembris, anno dni. 1358° " : a sermon against the mendicant orders, on John vii. 24, " Demejj no5t by Jje face." f. 205 b ; — (c) " Dialogus inter dominum et clericum " : a dialogue in English on translation, as an introduc- tion to the Polychronicon, beg. " Selp'pe ]jat Babel was buld." f. 217 ; — (d) Letter by Trevisa, on his translation of Higden, to his patron, Thomas Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley {ol. 1417), beg. " Weljje and werschip to my worbi and werschipful Lord sore Thomas lord of Berkeleye, I John Trevisa," etc. Printed by Caxton, with the Dialogue on translation, in his edition of the Polychronicon, 1482 (c/. Rolls ed., vol. i. p. Ixi). f. 218 ;— (e) Alpha- betical table of contents of the Polychronicon. f. 218. All these articles are found in most MSS. of the Polychronicon, but usually precede it; but the Latin index, which is found in addition in other MSS., is not present here. Vellum ; ff. 222. Early xvth cent. In double columns of 49 lines. Initials of chapters in red and blue. With illuminated borders at the beginning of the several books. On the last page is an acquittance to Edw. Clere [of Blickling, Sheriff of Norfolk in 1567] for rent of a tenement " in Saynt Edmondes in Norwiche, in old tyme Sir Nicholas Goldwell," 24 Nov. 1559. Folio. 66. 1. Form of resignation of the crown by Richard 11. [29 Sept. 1399], followed by the " protestacio regis Eicardi ante resig- nacionem," the challenge of the crown by Henry, Duke of Lan- caster, and his speech after election as Henry IV. The first two articles in Latin, the others in English. See Bot. Pari., vol. iii. pp. 416, 423. f. 1. 2. Two pieces in verse : the first, of four lines only, beg. " Sic deus humani libravit tempera cursus | Vt viuens nunquam mel sine felle bibat " ; the second, of twenty lines, headed '' Versus in laudem Anglie," beg. " Anglia terra ferax et fertilis angulus orbis." ff. 2, 2 b. The latter piece (for another copy of which see Add. 11,983, i. 46 b) has been attributed to Richard of Cluny, Alfred of Beverley, and Henry of Huntingdon. Vellum ; ff. 2. xvth cent. Duodecimo. 67. " Ceonica bona et compendiosa de Regibus Anglie ... a tempore Noe usque ad tempus Heurioi quarti . . . et de Sanctis interim in Anglia eorum temporibus existentium." Begins " Noe fuerunt tres fiilii " ; and ends in the 2nd year of Henry IV. [1401] with the expostulatory letter of Philip Eepingdon, or Repington, Abbot of Leicester, to the king, on the state of the kingdom, beginning " lUustrissime princeps et serenissime domine dignetur vestra 44 STOWE MSS., 68-70. celsitudo," etc., and ending "vestre si plaoeat celsitudinis indignus servulus Philippns predicator vester assidnus." Rep- ingdon was formerly a supporter of Wiclif, then Confessor to Henry [before the date of this letter], Chancellor of Oxford University in 1400, Abbot of St. Mary de Pre, Leicester [1393- 1404], Bishop of Lincoln [1405-1414], Cardinal [1408], and died 1434. An anecdote illustrating his relations with Henry IV. is inserted in the Leicester Abbey Eegistor, Cott. MS. Vitell. F. xvii., f. 42 b (c/. Tanner, Bill. Britannico-Hihernica, p. 622). The letter is printed in the Correspondence of Bekyngton, Eolls Series, vol. i. p. 151, and is also found, without the writer's name, in the Chronicle of Adam of Usk, ed. E. M. Thompson, p. 63. After the letter is added a table of kings, with the length of their reigns, from William L down to Henry VI., whose regnal years, " xxxxviii. aunis et ultra," are added by a later hand ; and the volume con- cludes with two hexameter verses containing the same names. A shorter form of this chronicle, in which little is given except the bare chronology, exists in Cotton MSS. Nero D. vi. (ff. 7 b-15 b), Tib. E. viii. (flf. 220-225), and other MSS. in the British Museum. All these end with the accession of Eichard II. in 1377 (correspond- ing with f. 64 of this MS.). Mr. Churchill Babington (Higden's Polychronicon, Eolls Series, vol. i. p. xii. note) mentions a copy at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, ending in 1367, and one at Wiachester College, ending in 1377. The title to the Cottonian copy Tib. E. viii. states that the chronicle was " conscripta a Eanulpho Higdeno Cestrensi monacho, qui vixit anno gratiae CIO . Ill . LYiii." If this ascription is correct, the present longer version may be also in part the work of Higden, but more probably it is by a later writer expanding the shorter chronicle with the assistance of the Polychronicon. There are several refer- ences to the latter in the course of the work (e.g. f. 15 b, "cetera gesta aluredi regis vide in cronica cistrensi, li° 6°, 1° 2° et iii° capitulis"), which may suit either hypothesis. In any case the later portion of the work cannot be by Higden, who probably died in 1363, and certainly not later than 1377. VeUum ; ff. 71. 25 to 28 lines to the page, xvth cent. Belonged to John Benson (f. 71 b) and William Vagger of Sussex (f. 1 b), at the end of 15th cent. ; " liber Joannis Twyni ex done Joannis Twyni (Wood, Ath. Oxon., vol. i., col. 463) patris sui, 1578 " ; bought by J.Lowes in 1771 at an auction of the books of P[hilip] C[arteret] Webb (oh. 1770). SmaH Quarto. 68. Cheonicle of the Beute, in English. Begins with the rubric ''Here may a man here hou England," etc., and proceeds Cl. IV. HISTOET. 45 " In the noble lond of Sirrie " ; breaks off imperfectly in the year 1356, ending with the words " hit was told and certified to the king." Several leaves are missing just before the last two. The last chapter is numbered 229, and begins with the sea-fight against the Spaniards off Winchelsea. Vellum ; ff. 189. Middle of xvth cent. Titles of chapters in red ; initial letters in red and blue. Belonged in the 17th cent, (see f. 1) to William Browne, the author of Britarmias Pastoralls, 1625, etc. Small Folio. 69. Chronicle of the Brute, in English. Begins with the rubric " Here may a man here," proceeding " In the noble londe of Sirrie." Ends in the middle of the description of the siege of Eouen in 1418-19, with the words " and manfully countred with our Englisch men." At the end (f. 192) are four leaves which contain a brief chronicle extracted from the chronicle, especially relating to London, and one torn leaf (f. 19^6) on which are written some stanzas on the kings of England ; those relating to William I., William II., Henry II., and Eiohard I. now alone remain. They are attributed to Lydgate (c/. Harl. MS. 5251, f. 2 b). Paper, with occasional vellum leaves ; ff. 197. Middle of the xvth cent. Spaces left for titles and illuminated initials, but none filled up except a few titles near the beginning. The name of William Darell, of the 16th cent., is on f. 196 b. The fly-leaves are fragments containing portions of an] index of contents of a work, apparently on canon law, of the 14th cent. Small Polio. 70. Chronicle of the Brute, in English. Has the two introductory paragraphs, beginning " The first inhabityng of Jjis lande," and proceeds " Some tyme in Jje lande of Surre." Ends with the siege of Eouen in 1418-19, but with words slightly different from the usual ones, "and putte jje toun in gouvemaunce and reule and cried his peace amonges the citezeins." The last chapter is numbered 238, beginning with the accession of Henry V. The language is somewhat modernised, and the arrangement of chapters altered ; e.g. between Arthur and Conan there is only a single chapter, which is a confused version of the four that usually stand there. Vellum; ff. 142. xvth cent. Titles of chapters in red, and spaces left for illuminated initials, but none filled in. The fly- leaves are fragments of Latin theological works from a MS. of the end of the 13th cent. (ff. 1, 141) and (f. 142) from a printed volume of the 16th cent. Small Eolio. 46 STOWE MSS., 71-76. 71. Chronicle of the Brute, in English. This copy is of the same class as those contained in Harl. 1337 and 6251 ; it does not agree entirely with them, but all three differ considerably from other versions of the Brute. The title in the first rubric is " Here bigynneth the Boke of the Cronyculez of the kinges of England." The prologue begins, " This boke tretith and telle th of all kynges and principall lordis that ever were in this lande." Then follows the history, beg. " Sumtyme in the nobyll londe of Surre." Breaks oiF incomplete in the account of the siege of Eouen, with the words "whiche was byfore the forest of leonez." The four chapters between Arthur and Conan are omitted, also the prophecies of Merlin concerning Henry III. and Edward II. [c/. Sir F. Madden in Notes and Queries, 2nd Ser., vol. i. p. 1, 1856]; but that con- cerning Edward I. is inserted near the end of the reign of Edward II. Paper ; £f. 87. xvth cent. Titles of chapters in red ; spaces left for illuminated initials, but none of them filled up. The fly- leaves (ff. 1, 2, 85, 86) are from a Latin service-book of the 13th cent., with the music. Belonged to Thomas Bromley (f. 1 b, and with the date 1576, f. 2 b) and Christopher Davye (f. 86), at the end of the 16th cent. ; and on a slip of paper (formerly used as a marker) pasted down on the last leaf (f. 87) are notes of the birth of Helen Bromley, 25 July, 1583, and Elizabeth Bromley, 5 Nov. 1584. Small Folio. 72. Genealogical Chronicle, in Latin, of the kings of England to Edward IV., tracing their descent from Adam through the Trojan kings ; with the genealogy of Christ in a parallel column. Beg. " Veterum cronicorum de successione regum anglie ordo hie insequitur." An English copy, slightly imperfect, is in Stowe 73, probably written by the same scribe. Vellum roll, 14 ft. by 8^ in. xvth cent. With initials in gold, blue and red. 73. Genealogical Chronicle, in English, of the kings of England to Edward IV., tracing their descent from Adam through the Trojan kings ; with the genealogy of Christ in a parallel column. Begins : " Consideryng the greet desire of many men that wold haue know- lege of olde cronicles." Imperfect, wanting certainly one leaf at the end, as well as one near the beginning (see the complete Latin copy in Stowe 72). Vellum; ff. 48, but originally in form of a roll, xvth cent. With names, as owners, of Edward Eowe Mores, 1750 (f 3), and Thomas Astle, 1779 (f. 1). Quarto. Cl, IV. HISTORY. ' 47 74. Genealogical History of the Sovereigns of England, from Egbert, a.d. 801, to Elizabeth. Latin. With arms in trick. Paper ; ff. 39. xviith cent. At f. 38 the writer has inscribed in the margin " decimo tertio die Novembris anno 1612. hie inoipiebam." A note at f. 1 by Sir Isaac Heard, Clarenceux, afterwards Garter King of Arms, dated 9 Oct. 1781, states that the book was given to him by William C(myngham (late Burton), Teller of the Exchequer in Ireland. Folio. 75. 1. Epitome of English history, from 1066 to the accession of Elizabeth, f. 4. 2. Genealogy of the Saxon kings, from Egbert to Edgar the jEtheling ; with arms in colours, f. 18. 3. Genealogy of the royal house of England, from William I. to Philip and Mary ; with arms in colours. Continued, in a 17th- cent. hand, to 1671. f. 22. 4. " The alliauuce betwext the kingdomes of England and Praunce. Wherby the tytle of England to the crowne of Praunce appereth." f. 36. All the articles, except the continuation of art. 3, were written in 1592 by M[organ] Col[man] : see if. 3, 16. At f. 2 are the arms of Queen Elizabeth ; and at f. 3, after the table of contents, is a dedication to Lord [Burghley ?]. Colman, who in the latter part of Elizabeth's reign petitioned unsuccessfully for a place in the College of Arms (see Noble's College of Arms, London, 1806, p. 189), was in 1588 in the service of Burghley's eldest son, afterwards 1st Earl of Exeter (see Lansdowne MS. 99, f. 141). Paper and (£f. 2, 22) vellum ; fif. 38. Given (see f. 1) to Thomas Astle by Sir E[ichard] W[orsle]y (?), 26 June, 1779. Polio. 76. " Gesta Britannica, prsesertim Anglorum, adjectis aliquot ob- servationibus, maxima in iis quae ad ecclesiam a temporibus retro- actisad a.d. mdcxlviii [Jan. 164|] spectant." The work, which is apparently autograph, is divided into ten books, the last three (ff. 211b — 362) containing the reigns of James I. and Charles I. The author states (f. 261 b) that he began the reign of Charles, "luctuosam banc historise partem," on 18 June, 1660; and at the end of the index (the greater part of which is torn out) is the colophon "Pinis, Deo gratias, April 28, 1664, anno setatis 70." Prom marginal notes on ff. 227 b, 228 b, it may be inferred that he survived the fire of London in 1666. His name is not given ; but he calls himself (f. 242) a native of Cheshire, and he was ordained priest by the Bishop of London on 31 May, 1618 (f. 245). He mentions (f. 268 b) " nostra ecclesia de Shoreditch," expresses 48 STOWE MSS., 76-79. his gratitude (f. 262) for his preservation in the plague of 1625, " licet ad ccetus et sepulchra ratione ofScii prsesentem," and quotes from memory (f. 327 b) a speech by Laud, as Bishop of London, to his clergy on the subject of the Eucharist. He gives also (f. 314) a full account of the imprisonment by the Parliament of John Squire (o6. 1653), Vicar of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, in 1642, styling him "amicus sincerus, cum quo multam aetatem con- sumpsi " ; and he incidentally refers (f. 342) to his own release from confinement in the house of Lord Petre, where his place was taken (30 Sept. 1643) by Dr. Daniel Featly, Eector of Lambeth, with whom he was on intimate terms. Prom the list of priests ordained on 31 May, 1618, contained in the MS. ordination-books of the diocese of London, preserved in St. Paul's Cathedral, he may be identified with Eoger Ley, or Lea, M.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge, who is described as " natus apud Crewe, in com. Cestrie, annorum etatis 24 aut eo circiter, consti- tutus ad ouram sci. Leonardi in Shorediche." He was the author of two sermons preached at St. Paul's Cross and published in 1619 and 1622. Although events of general history are recorded, a large proportion of the work deals with questions of doctrine and church discipline. Many of these are discussed at consider- able length, such as the Hampton Court Conference, predestination, the observance of the Lord's Day, the innovations of Laud, the agitation against episcopacy, etc. The writer complains bitterly of the treatment of the clergy and the desecration of churches during the Civil War, describing, e.g., as an eye-witness (f. 228 b) the condition of St. Paul's Cathedral. Several chapters at the end of each reign contain notices of bishops, divines, and scholars, among whom are the following : — George Abbot, Archbishop of Canter- bury, f. 249 b. Eobert Abbot, Bishop of Salisbury, f. 244 b. Lancelot Andrews, Bishop of Win- chester, f. 246 b. Gervase Babington, Bishop of Worces- ter, f. 242b. Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albaas, f. 258. Eichard Bancroft, Archbishop of Can- terbury, f. 242 b. William Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, f. 243 b. Thomas Bilson, Bishop of Winchester, f, 243 b. Sir Thomas Bodley, f. 257. John Buckeridge, Bishop of Ely, f. 249. William Camden, f. 257 b. George Carleton, Bishop of Chichester, f. 248>. Bichard Gierke, Canon of Canterbury, f. 841 b. John Cowell, Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, f. 257. John Davenant, Bishop of Salisbury, f. 338. Martin Day, Eector of St. Faith, f. 343 b. Marc' Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalatro, f. 260 b. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, f. 252 b. Cl. iy. histoey. 49 George Downham, Bishop of Derry, f. 250 b. Daniel Peatly, Rector of Lambefli, f. 341 b. Francis Godwin. Bishop of Hereford, f. 245. Josepli Hall, Bishop of Norwich, f. 338 b. Sir John Hay ward, f. 257 b. Richard Holdsworth, Master of Em- manuel College, Cambridge, f. 343. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, f. 242. John King, Bishop of London, f. 442 b. Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and "Wells, f. 245 b. William Laud, Archbishop of Canter- bury, f. 325 b. Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York, f. 249. James Montague, Bishop of Win- chester, f. 244 b. Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham, f. 341. Sir Henry Savile, f. 259. Richard Senhouse, Bishop of Carlisle, f. 248. Josias Shute, Rector of St. Mary Wool- noth, f. 344. Nathaniel Shute, Rector of St. Mildred's, Poultry, f. 344. Edward Simonds, or Symmons, Rector of Rayne, co. Essex, f. 342 b. Miles Smith, Bishop of Gloucester, f 249. Sir Henry Spelman, f. 260. John Spottiswood, Archbishop of St. Andrews, f. 331. Ephraim XJdall, Rector of St. Augus- tine's, London, f. 344. James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, f. 331 b. Richard Vaughan, Bishop of London, f. 242. Sir Henry Wotton, f. 259. Milton is mentioned on f. 301 b (" Miltonus quidam laious, postea regis insignissimus adversarius ") as the author of an anti- episcopal pamphlet in answer to Ussher [in 1641]. Paper ; £f. 364. Folio. 77. "Behemoth, or the Epitome of y Civill Wars of England," 1640-1660 ; by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbnry. At the end (f. 65), in a diiferent hand, is an exposition (incomplete) of the statute "22 and 28 Car. 2