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(7) Merton College CCCXXI. This is a MS. of the be- 

 ginning of the fourteenth century, and is in excellent pre- 

 servation. The text is similar to the Liber Horn ; the resem- 

 blances are very close, but the differences of spelling and 

 sometimes of construction are very curious, and suggest that 

 this MS. was written from dictation rather than copied. 



(8) Bodleian Library, Douce 98. This is a beautifully 

 written MS. of the beginning of the fourteenth century ; 

 it is practically identical with the text printed here, as the 

 title, divisions, and headings closely correspond with those 

 in the Luffield MS. 



(17) Digby 147. This is an early fifteenth century MS., 

 and contains a Latin translation of Walter of Henley. The 

 text from which this translation was made appears to be 

 connected with that of the Liber Horn group, as it has 

 similar insertions, but the chapter on the Survey is divided 

 as in the Heralds' College MS. A new chapter, de modo 

 arandi, begins at ' Ore en arrant ' (p. 8 1. 12). 



(21) Eawlinson MSS. B 471. This is a small volume 

 containing various papers in the handwriting of William 

 Lambarde. Among these is a transcript of Walter of 

 Henley's treatise, with an interlinear translation. The 

 transcript is not in Lambarde's writing, and the translation 

 does not appear to be his either, but at the end are two 

 notes written and signed by him. The first, dated May 2, 

 1577, is : • Hactenus ex libro ecclesiae Christi Cantuar. 

 perantiquo quern scriptum fuisse autumo tempestate E. 1 

 vel E. 2 regis ' ; the second, written in December of the 

 same year, runs : ' Tradit Joannes Balaeus (in centuria 

 Scriptorum Brytannise quarta fol. 304) Bobertum Grosse- 

 teste, Episcopum olim Lincolniensem hunc de Agricultura 

 Libellum de Gallico in Anglicum transtulisse. Obiit ante- 

 dictus Bobertus ille Anno Domini 1253, qui fuit annus regni 

 Henrici regis tertij 37. Ut vult Matthseus parisiensis. 

 Unde satis liquet Gualterum Henleyum, militem huiusce 

 opusculi Authorem annis abhinc 330 aut eo plus fatis 

 concessisse. W. Lambarde Decemb. 1577.' 



