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the Exchequer ; and the first entry which follows (No. 8 here) 

 certainly relates to Coventry. But the succeeding extract 

 (Xo. 9) reverts to Milton, with a note added " in registro 

 predicto," which may mean that of Milton or Coventry ; and 

 the following (Xo. 10) purports to be from the registry of 

 Langdon, in Kent. Until the original is discovered it is useless 

 to speculate on this puzzle. The i4th century scribe may have 

 been copying entries from other monasteries, or James may have 

 been making promiscuous extracts from several documents in 

 the Exchequer. Meanwhile it will not be safe to assume that 

 more than the first seven extracts, and probably the ninth, are 

 from the Milton register. 



The contents are rather deficient in local interest. Entry 

 Xo. i contains the legend of Athelstan's birth, succession to the 

 Crown, murder of his half-brother Edwin, penitence, murder of 

 his cup-bearer, enriching of Muchelney, and foundation of 

 Milton. This has already been printed by Dugdale (Monasticon, 

 Ed. 1819, Vol. III., p. 348), without a translation, and Hutchins 

 gives a summary of it, with some just and caustic comments. 

 Dugdale's version has some variations in the text, which appear 

 here in foot notes. 



No. 2 is a statement of a list of the kings of England down to 

 Edward III. Xo. 3 refers to the fair and market at Milton ; 

 Xo. 4 is a licence in mortmain, to hold a rent* issuing out of 

 land at Up-Sydling ; and X'o. 5 a note on the comparative 

 etymology of a surname. Xo. 6 has a legal interest as an early 

 form of attestation of an erasure in a deed. Xo. 8 is the 

 Coventry extract, also a licence in mortmain ; Xo. 9 is the form 

 of oath administered by the monks of Milton to the vicars of 

 their benefices ; and X T o. i o is the Langdon extract, being a 

 grant of an advowson to that Abbey with a right to appropriate. 

 This Langdon must be West Langdon, in Kent, which belonged 

 to the Premonstratensians (Dugd. Mon., Vol. VI., 897). 



Xo. 7 is the most interesting : it is a vocabulary of Saxon law 

 terms for manorial rights with explanations in Latin. Such lists 

 are indeed common : and are fully discussed in the preface to 



