46 PAPERS, ETC. 
the Society in possession of minutely accurate transcripts, 
whereby a long or troublesome search for the originals 
among the multitudinous treasures of our vast Repository 
is rendered less necessary for any future investigator. 
I give them in what I believe to be their chronological 
order, thoush only four of them are dated. In this and 
similar cases a conjecture must be taken from the style of 
the writing, which varied much at different periods, and 
generally presents sufficient indications for enabling us to 
arrive at considerable accuracy in the determination of the 
age of any document submitted to us. 
The first appears, from such internal evidence, to have 
been written in the reign of Edward I. It is as follows:— 
(11.) “ Radulf’ fil’ Will’ de piscar’ cu’ pt’ ap'd La’gacre 
desce’d’nt’ de riuulo de Clyue. 
“Om’ib’ filis S’ce Matris Eecl'ie Radulfus fil’ Will’mi 
de Wydecume salt’. Sciatis me concessisse, & dedisse, & 
p'senti carta confirmasse, p’ sal’te anime mee, & Yolente 
sponse mee, & o’ium an’cessor’ & heredu’ n’ror’, Deo & S’ce 
Marie & Monachis de Cliue, in pura’ & p’petua’ elemosina’, 
illam piscaria’ cu’ p’tine’tiis suis, que p’ximior est p‘to meo 
de La’gacre, & p’xima riuulo q! descendit de Cliue. Hane 
au’ piscaria’ dedi eis h'ndam & tenenda’, sicut alig® elemo- 
sina q’eti’ & lib’ius teneri potest. Et quicg! seruicii debet' 
Regi ut ulli alii p’ p’dieta piscaria, ego & heredes mei 
faciem’ & ag’etabim’. Et ip’am piscaria’ p’dietis monach’ 
warantizabim’ in p’petuu’, cont? om’s ho’ies. Hiis testib’, 
Ric’do de Cumbe, Will’o fil’ Heuerardi, Will’o de Sandhelle, 
Ada de Wacheford, Alexandro de la Bie, Ada de Fernacre, 
Joh’e fil’ Ric’di, Rob’to de Sandhelle, Gilleb’to Gymel, & 
multis aliis.” 
Which in English is as follows :— 
“To all the sons of Holy Mother Church Ralph the son 
