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the peculiarities of the Eeading group; it is divided by 

 spaces left for initial letters, but only two headings are given, 

 ' Coment home despendre ses biens,' and ' Pur manoirs ex- 

 tender vous auetz aillours mais ne mye tut.' 



(20) Add. 20,709. This is a curious little book, though 

 it gives no important light on the text of Walter of Henley. 

 It is a note book dated 1571, and belonging to William 

 Lambarde, a celebrated antiquary of the sixteenth century, 

 of whom an interesting account will be found in Nichols' 

 Bibliotheca Topograjphica Britannica, I. 493. He had access 

 to a MS. belonging to Matthew Parker, entitled Du Gaignage 

 des terres, and made some extracts from it. This appears to 

 have been a MS. of Walter of Henley. One of the extracts 

 (f. 5) is stated to be from Walter of Henley ; this gives the 

 estimate about ploughing as it occurs in the Canterbury 

 group, where the league is said to consist of twenty furlongs ; 

 it is clear, however, that this extract was not made at the 

 same time as the notes from Matthew Parker's Gaignage, 

 and we are forced to surmise that two copies had been in 

 Lambarde's hands ; one of these was the lost Parker MS., 

 which probably belonged to the Luffield group, and another 

 was a Canterbury MS., of which a transcript and transla- 

 tion was made for Lambarde (seeJbelow on Oxford 21). He 

 also made use of the anonymous Husbandry ; his extracts 

 are very meagre, but one or two remarks are worth noting. 

 He conjectured that the MS. he used of the Gaignage des 

 terres was written in the time of Edward I. (f. 46), and he 

 also explains ' that at the present day the bailiff retains his 

 name, but the " provost " or Propositus is called the reeve 

 and the clerk is the name of the Seneschal ' (f. 46). 



(3) Heralds' College. Arundel MS. XIV. The volume 

 in which this copy of the treatise occurs is described in 

 the Preface to Gaimar's Lestoire des Engles (Eolls' 

 Series). 



This manuscript is closely related to the Liber Horn, and 

 also to the MSS. of the Eeading group ; it has a table of 

 contents prefixed, which closely corresponds to that in the 

 Liber Horn, but the headings of the chapters differ from 



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