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account in manuscript of the house and its valuable contents written in 1766.

"Aaron Danielis: sive Henrici Danielis, monachi Jacobini, insignis medici, Botanologia, sive de Re Herbaria Liber :"-an English author, for whom see Pits, p. 521.

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Registrum Magnum: Curteys." An original Register of the Abbey of Saint Edmund during the time when William Curteys presided over it, who was succeeded by John Boon in 1457. This was one of the books which had belonged to Sir Henry Spelman.

A Ledger Book of the Abbey of Glaston, which Bishop Tanner rescued from destruction in the shop of a grocer of Oxford, in the year 1692.

A Chartulary of the Religious House of Blackborough, in Norfolk. "The Bible of English Policy.”—“ Here begynneth the Prologue of the Bible of English Polecie, exhorting all Engeland to kepe the See environ, and namely, to keep the narrowe See; shewyng what profitt cometh thereof, and also worschip to the royamne of Ingeland and all Inglyshe men."-Also an account of the Retinue of King Edward the Third in his host towards the parts of France and Normandy, and during the siege of the town and castle of Calais.— This manuscript, it seems, may have been once the property of Caxton" Iste Liber constat Willielmo Caston.-Qui dedit Willielmo Tonyng anno M.IIIIC.LXXI: qui genuit Johannem, qui genuit Johannem, qui genuit Johannem de Ordine Sancti Francisci. Dedit istius Liber (sic) Thomæ Wall alias Windesor Herald, anno 1528."

Several volumes of Collections of Dr. Covell, relating to the university of Cambridge, and his own Travels in the East: with his literary correspondence.

A vellum MS. of the works of Gower.

A copy of Spenser's View of the State of Ireland, to which is

subscribed 'E. S. 1597,' which is probably the true date of the composition of the treatise.

The possessor of these valuable remains died in 1767, at the age of 84. He left an only daughter, who soon after his decease became the wife of Mr. Staniforth, to whose niece and heir, who married Mr. Patteson, sometime member for Norwich, the library descended. Many of the manuscripts have passed by purchase into the hands of two members of the Camden Society, Mr. Hudson Gurney and Mr. Dawson Turner.

A portion of the Charters was presented by Mr. and Mrs. Staniforth, soon after Dr. Macro's decease, to a nephew of Dr. Macro, who strongly resembled him in his taste and pursuits. This was Mr. Wilson, a Yorkshire gentleman, who was no mean antiquary, and who had a most extraordinary passion for amassing and transcribing charter-evidence. This gentleman died in the year 1783; and his Collection of Written Evidence remained as he had left it at the Old Hall in which he had resided, in one of the wildest parts of the country, till in 1806 it was liberally thrown open to my inspection and use; and from that time to the present I have frequently found what it contained, a source of original information extremely useful to me in the studies in which I have been engaged.

It was easy to distinguish what had belonged to the Macro collection, from the similar documents, vastly more numerous, which Mr. Wilson had himself collected. The few which are now given to the public were all belonging to the Macro collection, with the exception of two documents, concerning which I am inclined to think that they were obtained by Mr. Wilson from some other quarter.

CHARTERS

RELATING TO ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS.

I.

Grant by GILBERT TYSON of Land and Tythe to the Church of SELBY; in the time of the Conqueror or his successor.

NOTUм sit omnibus fidelibus quod ego GISLEBERTUS TISUN, concessu uxoris mee et filiorum meorum, dedi ecclesie sancti Germani de SALEBI, pro anima domini mei WILLIELMI Regis et MATHILDIS Regine, et pro redemptione anime mee et uxoris mee et omnium liberorum meorum, duas carucatas terre in villa quæ GUNDEBI dicitur, cum omnibus quæ illi adjacent: et illam decimam quam habeo in AIGRUNA et in ALVELEIA: et viii. bovatas terre in villa quæ LUND dicitur. Hoc autem ea condicione feci, ut in eadem ecclesia sim plenarius frater. Quidam etiam ex hominibus meis nomine SUANUS dedit memorate Ecclesie unam carucatam terre in DUFFELD. Quod ego concessi et concedo. Teste Thoma Archiepiscopo. Testibus Adam filio meo et Willielmo et Everardo capellano. et Ricardo Tisun et Uctredo filio Alwini. et Suano et Ro: filio Widonis. et Maino.

An imperfect and incorrect copy of this Charter is in the Monasticon (Ed. 1682, vol. i. p. 372; and New. Ed. vol. iii. p. 500), but so imperfect and incorrect as to render highly expedient and necessary the present republication of it, from that which there is reason to believe is the written record of the transaction made at the time.

The Church of Selby was founded by the Conqueror in honour of Saint German, of whom a very full and curious account is given by an early writer, whose work is to be found in Labbe's Collection of Historic Remains. Gilbert Tyson held of the Conqueror many manors in the counties of York and Nottingham, and one in the county CAMD. Soc. 8.

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of Lincoln. The gift, of which this is the record, was made very soon after the foundation.

Gunby, Lund, and Duffield lie on the Derwent, at a short distance from the Abbey. Alveleia is probably the place called Alvengi in Domesday, where a church is named, and is now Ella (Kirk-Ella), so changed is the topographical nomenclature of England since the Conquest. Burton, who wrote before Domesday Book was made accessible by the press, was unable to identify the Aigruna (or Aigrum, as he prints the word), Mon. Ebor. p. 389: but it is clearly the place in Tyson's Nottinghamshire fee which stands first in the Domesday Survey, where it is called Aigrun. There was a church and presbyter. It is the modern Eykring.

The Alwin, whose son Uctred was a witness, is doubtless the Saxon of that name who held many of the manors in the East Riding of Yorkshire which were given to Gilbert Tyson.

This grant was made in the time of Archbishop Thomas. There is in the Monasticon another by the same benefactor, to which Aldred the predecessor of Thomas is a witness. By this charter he gave two carucates in Polkerthorpe (Folkerthorpe) with lands at Gunby and Lund.

For the second grant he was, we see, to be admitted to the full privileges of a brother of the house.

II.

Confirmation by ROBERT BISHOP OF LONDON of a Grant of Lands in SOUTH MINSTER, in his fee, in the reign of Stephen.

ROBERTUS Dei gratia LONDONIENSIS episcopus, omnibus suis hominibus Francis et Anglicis tam præsentibus quam futuris salutem. Notum sit vobis quod WIllielmus de BURSTEDE donavit PAGANO DE STANFORD et suis heredibus totam suam terram quam tenet de nostro feodo in SUDMENISTRE, cum omnibus pertinentiis: tenendam de illo et suis heredibus per servicium quinte partis unius militis, pro suo servicio et pro suo homagio et pro x marcis argenti et uno caballo falvo, precii centum solidorum, quos GODFRIDUS meus cognatus et prædictus PAGANUS suus frater dederunt prædicto WILLIELMO. Et ego per peticionem prædicti WILLIELMI concessi et præsenti carta mea confirmavi ut sua donatio sit stabilis. Quare volo et firmiter præcipio quod prædictus PAGANUS et heredes sui habeant et teneant predictam

terram cum suis pertinentiis in bene et in pace libere et quiete honorifice et integre. Hii sunt testes Rogerus Brunus. Willielmus de Wokendune. Robertus de Baud. Simon suus filius. Willielmus Baard. Walterus suus frater. Walterus de Alcorne. Ricardus filius Tole. Willielmus filius Wimundi. Robertus Niger. Willielmus de Chaldene. Henricus de Patem. Ricardus de Furnaus. Robertus Baard. Rogerus de Peleham. Willielmus de Sarneres. et multis (sic) alii.

South Minster is in Essex; a very ancient endowment on the Bishop of London. The charter is chiefly remarkable for the style of the Bishop, and of the persons to whom it is addressed, in which there may seem to be an imitation of the phrase of the royal grants of the time.

The name of Robert has sometimes the addition De Sigillo. He was consecrated, according to Le Neve's Fasti, in 1141, and died in 1150 or 1151. He was an "ancient friend" and devout admirer of Saint Bernard: Godwin, 4to. 1616, p. 235. In this Charter we have persons mentioned who were of his kindred.

III.

Documents relating to the subjection of the Houses of ST. MARY OF DUBLIN, and of BASINGWERK, to the House of BUILDWAS, with a Certificate of the Abbots of CоMBE, MIRAVAL and STANLEY to the House of CISTERTIUM: A. D. 1156, 1176.

VENERANDO fratri et amico RANNULFO abbati de BILLEWAS ejusdemque loci conventui, Frater RICARDUS dictus abbas et Conventus SAVIGNEI salutem et dilectionem. In nomine domini nostri JESU CHRISTI committimus atque concedimus vobis et domui vestre curam et dispositionem domus nostre SANCTE MARIE DUBLINE imperpetuum habendam ; ut vos et domus vestra, secundum tenorem ordinis Cisterciensis, curam ejusdem domus quasi filie vestre et a vobis egresse, in omnibus et per omnia habeatis; et ipsa vobis et domui vestre tanquam matri sue juxta eundem tenorem ordinis Cisterciensis semper et ubique respondeat et obediat. Facta est autem hæc nostra commissio atque concessio in communi capitulo Savignei anno ab incarnatione domini

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