XXIV INTRODUCTION 



transcriber inserted headings to the chapters, and it 

 appears from the table of contents, as well as from a long 

 insertion on sheep farming, that he also made use of a 

 manuscript belonging to the Liber Horn family. There is 

 a second Cambridge University MS. (13) in which the 

 same divisions occur, but the chapters are numbered 

 though they have no headings. A third Cambridge Uni- 

 versity MS. (9), written at Eeading, has the same arrange- 

 ment, but the chapters are in some cases subdivided and 

 headings are added throughout. It appears to belong to 

 this group, but there are some differences in the text. 1 A 

 second MS. also written at Eeading (16) has been preserved 

 in the British Museum, and is closely similar in all its 

 features. In the whole of this group the division of chap- 

 ters differs from that in the text now printed ; thus the 

 sentence about the team of oxen and horses (p. 10) begins 

 a new chapter, as does that about fallowing in April on 

 page 12 ; so, too, the chapter about preparing manure 

 (p. 18) begins at the sentence which comes second in the 

 text ; the introduction gives only one of the English 

 proverbs. This may be distinguished as the Eeading 

 family. 



B. The second family consists of two MSS., and this 

 arrangement of the text has been adopted in the present 

 edition. The earlier chapters are clearly divided, and 

 begin with a new line ; but they have no titles, while the 

 later chapters have. The long title of the treatise is also 

 distinctive of this group, and the phrase, gaynage de tere, 

 which occurs in it, is suggestive of the title under which 

 Matthew Parker's MS. was known, and may indicate that it 

 belonged to this family. One of the two extant copies is in 

 the Luffield book at Cambridge (1) , and the other (8) among 

 the Douce MSS. at Oxford. The Luffield appears to be the 

 earliest example now existing, with the exception of one of 

 the Canterbury MSS. I suspect that the author of Fleta 

 also used a MS. of this group. 



1 The calculation as to the plough- three-field is omitted, and the chap- 

 ing required in the two-field and the ter on cattle is differently arranged, 



