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S'fjc Cf)avtulaig of tlje Mi>i)t^ of 4iak.' 



By the Rev. J. Charles Cox, LL.D., F.S.A. 



■ "^OIHE fine chartulary of the abbey of Dale among the 



I ^^ Cottonian manuscripts of the British Museum 



f ^Sj (Vesp. E. xxvi.), is a small quarto vellum volume of 



196 leaves, in the handwritings of the reigns of 



Edward I. and Edward II., with rubricated initials. The 



copies of the charters are arranged under the places to which 



they relate. The chartulary proper ends with f. i77\ 



The latter part of the volume is of varied later dates, and 



seems to have been bound up with the chartulary (which is 



imperfect at the beginning and in one or two other places) 



when the Cottonian library was being formed. The names of 



witnesses to the different charters are not given until f. 46'' is 



reached. 



To some, so many pages of apparently dry statements and 



repetitions of personal and place names will seem wearisome ; 



but this abstract will be valued by those who take genuine 



interest in the old personal or local history of the counties of 



Derby and Nottingham.! Explanatory notes of various refer- 



* The abstract of this chartulary was prepared twenty-five years ago, when 

 it was intended to bring out a Derbyshire Monasticon. Subsequently, in 

 1881, in conjunction with Mr. St. John Hope, it was proposed to issue a full 

 monograph on Dale Abliey ; but this project got no further than the prospectus. 

 I have now ([an., 1902) carefully collated it with the original, for the second 

 time, for publication in the Journal. 



t [In presenting the Society with the result of this laborious translation and 

 study, Dr. Cox need offer no apology. That a generous proportion of the pages 

 of this journal should be devoted to popular subjects is only fair to the 

 general reader, but there is a graver object to be remembered, viz., the 

 compilation of original materials for the future histories of Derbyshire, 

 —Ed.] 



