XXXIV INTRODUCTION 



those in the table, and there are some curious differences 

 in the text. In the Introduction the second English pro- 

 verb is omitted, as in the Eeading group. The chapter on 

 sheep farming ends with an unfinished sentence, which 

 does not occur in other MSS. : ' Beau fiz si vos berbiz ou vos 

 agneals ke vient de semeyson unt mangie de — ' 



There is some difference in the divisions of the text ; the 

 chapter on the Survey is divided into three ; the second of 

 the three is entitled ' Combien des acres une charue pust 

 sustener par an,' and runs, ' E par les estendurs ' (p. 6) to ' le 

 acre de lxvi pyez de leese 'on p. 8. The other divisions, 

 beginning at ' Franc tenant ' (p. 10 1. 3), 'A charue des bez ' 

 (p. 10 1. 25), and ' Al waret est une bone seson ' (p. 12 1. 22), 

 correspond to those of the Eeading group rather than to 

 those of the Liber Horn. The transcriber must have com- 

 bined two texts, adopting the divisions of the Eeading 

 group, and giving his own headings to the chapters, but 

 prefixing the Liber Horn table of contents and including the 

 insertion on sheep farming which it contains. He, however, 

 omitted the sentence on the amount of ploughing required 

 on the two methods which occurs in other examples of the 

 Eeading group. 



(5) Guildhall. I was indebted to the kindness of the 

 Town Clerk of London for permission to examine the Liber 

 Horn. The labours of the late Mr. Eiley came prematurely 

 to a close ; and it is most unfortunate that he was unable 

 to carry through the work of editing this volume. The 

 Walter of Henley is of the time of Edward II., and the 

 manuscript is of special value ; the scribe has been much 

 more careful about the headings of chapters and about the 

 correct copying of figures than was usually the case. 

 Though apparently some few years later than the Heralds' 

 College MS., it represents an arrangement of the text which 

 that transcriber had before him. In this case, however, 

 the headings of the chapters and the divisions correspond 

 to the table of contents. The MS. contains a long insertion 

 on sheep farming and the sentence on the three field and 

 two field systems. 



