ERBYSHIRE JARCHAOLOGICAL 
AND 
NATURAL btistory HOCIETY. 
Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Harp Ve Parco 
Stanley, ov Dale, Derbyshire. 
By W. H. Sr. Joun Hope, BA. 
WJHE most important of the few records formerly be- 
#| longing to the Abbey of Dale that have escaped 
destruction, is a small quarto volume of 196 leaves, 
now in the British Museum.* The first leaf tells us 
that it is Registrum sive Cartularium Abbathiae de Dale in agro 
Derbiensi ; and the second, Hx dono Anchitelli Grey de Risley in 
com Derb: Armigeri, The handwriting of the greater portion is 
very clear and good, and evidently the work of a scribe who lived 
about the end of the thirteenth century. The following abstract 
will give an approximate idea of the contents of the volume :— 
fF 1, 2.—Fly leaves. 
FF 3, 4.—List of names of places mentioned in the Register. 
Jf. 5.—Fragment of a Chronicle of the Abbey. 
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* Cott. MS. Vesp. E. 26, 
