ON THE CHARTERS OF CLEEVE ABBEY. 59 
Inquis. post mort: vol. ii, pp. 43, 132 ; vol. iii, p. 240; 
etc., etc. The amount of revenue about the year 1291, 
making a total temporalty of £32 5s. 8d., is afforded by the 
Taxatio of Pope Nicholas IV., pp. 152b, 153b, 205b. 
The enumeration and value of the lands, ete., on the eve 
of the Dissolution, the latter amounting to £155 9s. 5d., 
may be found in the Valor Eeelesiasticus, temp. Hen. 
VIIL, vol. i., pp. 217, 218; and subsequently in the 
Comput. Ministr. Dom. Reg. from the Roll, 28 Hen. 
VIIL, in the Augmentation Ofhce, printed in Dugdale, 
Append. no. xv., p. 734. Various summonses of the 
Abbots to Parliament, loans, etc., both of which, though 
considered at the time a grievance, are a criterion of the 
rank which the Abbey enjoyed, are to be found in Par- 
liamentary Writs, vol. i. p. 293, no. 20 ; p. 335, no. 19. 
Vol. ii. part ii., p. 88, no. 51; p. 379, no. 37; p. 384, no. 
10 ; part ii., p. 690, etc. I do not think it necessary to 
reprint these and similar notices here, needing as they do 
very little orno translation, because they are already given 
to the world in volumes, which, though ponderous and 
necessarily expensive, are generally accessible in publie 
libraries of any extent or pretension. A similar feeling 
has prevented my making these pages a mere transcript 
of the accounts of Leland, Dugdale, Tanner, Willis, 
Archer, Collinson, and other writers. It were an easy 
expedient, and one too often resorted to, to reprint unne- 
cessarily, and for lack of original matter, what is without. 
difheulty and far better aequired from the authorities 
themselves, so needlessly, not to say reprehensibly, tran- 
scribed. But this is a practice which I would most 
earnestly discountenance, both by precept and example. 
And my aim, therefore, all along has been solely to 
furnish either matter entirely new, or translations of 
