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" I know not what occasion I ever shall have for your 

 MS. life of S fc . Dunstan, the niention of such things hap- 

 pening to nie very often when I am not aware. I wish 

 you would examine Snrius and Papebrochius and Bollan- 

 dus, as well as our own Writers, and try wbether there be 

 any Tblng momentous tbat does not occur there. I have 

 not an opportunlty of doing it my seif. 



" I thank you for inspecting the Cotton MS. 'Tis 

 stränge to me, that there should be so very little left lipon 

 Record about Michelney Abbey. Neither Mr. Dodsworth 

 nor Sir Wm. Dugdale met with any particulars, as far as I 

 can learn, of consequence concerning it. And yet 'twas a 

 very old Abbey, and is mentioned as a Mitred Abbey, tho' 

 not as one of the Parliamentary stated ones. K. Ina, as 

 Leland notes, is said by some to have been Founder, 

 tho' others, as Leland observes, teil us (and that, I 

 think, niore truly) that K. iEthelstan founded it. JE1- 

 fred the Great built the Church, as is likewise noted 

 by Leland. 



" I thank you for your Notes from Sir Thomas Sebright's 

 Catalogue. But I am inclined to think, that this Catalogue 

 contains only such Books as belong'd to Sir Roger Twis- 

 den, and it may be 'tis the very same with what I saw 

 many Years ago, even before Sir Thomas Sebright had 

 bought them. Since that, Sir Thomas purchas'd Mr. 

 Badger's Books, as also the MSS. of Mr. Edward Lhuyd. 

 I looked over Mr. Badger's Study during Mr. Badger's 

 Life, but there was very little or nothing to my purpose. 

 I also looked over Mr. Lhuyd's old MSS., as I did likewise 

 many of his own writing, tho' I think several of Mr. 

 Lhuyd's Papers were not among those MSS. when I had 

 the View of them. 



"I hear there is an honorary Monument erected in 



