2 CHRONICLE OF DALE ABBEY. 
ff 6-177-—Transcripts of some five hundred and thirty deeds. 
ff 178-179a.—List of Abbots of Dale. 
(Written in a coarse and late hand.) 
fF. 1796.—Blank. 
ff 180-1876.—Transcript of the ancient Chronicle of the 
Abbey. 
ff. 188-1946.—List of Tenants and Rents. 
fF 195.—Another fragment of a Chronicle of the Abbey. 
jf. 196.—Fly leaf, with notes, very undecipherable. 
The most interesting portion of the Register, and which forms 
the subject of my paper, is an early history of the foundation of 
the Abbey, written by one of the Canons about the middle of 
the thirteenth century. 
The original Chronicle has now disappeared, with the exception 
of one leaf,* and a portion at the end of the volume.t  For- 
tunately for us, the compiler of the Register not only transcribed 
the muniments the abbey then possessed, but the chronicle also. 
It is nevertheless evident, from a comparison with the existing 
fragments of the original, that the transcriber took indifferent care 
to follow the sub-division of the chronicle into sections—a cir- 
cumstance the more to be regretted, since the initial letters of 
the sections, as the chronicler himself tells us; make up his name. 
The second half is so hastily transcribed, that the sub-divisions 
(which appear in the first half) are quite overlooked, and it is 
difficult to say what the right letters are. The authorship is 
usually attributed to Thomas de Musca, a Canon of Dale, the 
initials apparently being T(H).O.M.A.S. D.E. M.V.S.C.A. He is 
doubtless the same person who is mentioned in the Chartulary as 
Thomas de Muskham, Canon.t 
The Chronicle has already been printed by Dugdale,§ in the 
original Latin, and an English version is given by Glover.|| 
Dugdale’s edition, however, contains so many errors and mis- 
spellings, that it was found necessary to make an entirely new 
Sy Beals tf 195. fol. 79. § ‘‘Monasticon Anglicanum,” new ed. 
vi. 892, ed. 1661. ii. 626. || ‘* History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby ” 
(Derby : Mozley and Sons, 1833), Vol. II., Pt. 1, pp. 339-345. 
