MUCHELNEY ABBEY. 91 



since I have not an opportunity of seeing the Catalogue 

 my seif. 



" Some time ago I saw in your hands a MS. of W m . of 

 Malmesbury's Life of 'S*. Dunstan. But having had only 

 a transient View of it, I cannot teil, whether it contains 

 any thing more than what we have already in print about 

 that Saint. 



"In the Cotton Libr. Julius F. X. 13, is an Account of 

 the foundation of several Monasteries, in England. I take 

 hold of your generous Offer, and desire that you would be 

 pleased to see, whether, in that Account, there be any men- 

 tion of Michelney Abbey in Somersetshire. 



" I have not seen the Defence you mention. I doubt not 

 but 'tis a poor edgless Thing, far beneath my notice. 'Tis 

 a very shrewd Sign of a wretched Cause, when the Advo- 

 cates for it are such vile infamous Wretches. 



"I saw Mr. Whiteside last Sunday Night, just after 

 your's came to hand. He told me he rec*? your Letter. 

 " I am, Dear Sir, 



" Your most obl. humble Servant 

 " Tho : Hearne. 



"Edm. Hall 



" Oxford Nov. 



"25. Frid. 1725.* 



This was followed up some time subsequently by the 

 next : — 



" Dear Sir, 



" Notwithstanding I have printed the old Table, hang- 

 ing in the Hospital of Abbington, yet I shall be glad of an 

 opportunity of seeing your Extracts from the Leiger-Book, 

 there being, it may be, something remarkable in them, 

 that may have escaped me. 



* MS. Lamdowu, 778, n. Iß. 



