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Some marginal notes by Lambarde are also of interest. 

 He has remarked the mistake peculiar to the Canterbury 

 MSS., which give the breadth of the quarentine as 40 feet, 

 and says : • I think this should be 4 in breadthe, and 

 40 in lengthe, so that this quarentine should be all one with 

 oure small acre.' Below this in another note, ' These names 

 of quarentine, coture, and leuge be common in the Domes- 

 day book in the Exchequier.' The word ' messer ' has been 

 translated first as ' mower,' but this has been changed to 

 ' overseer of husbandrie,' and Lambarde notes : ' This woord 

 soundeth a mower, but his office was to oversee the worke- 

 men, and to kepe the cornefieldes from harme. Customes 

 Normandie, fol. 121.' 



Canterbury. 



(10) Of the two MSS. in the Cathedral Library the 

 later one has suffered considerably from damp. It is a 

 fourteenth century MS., but it apparently follows the other 

 copy, which is in a known hand, and has been identified as 

 the writing of John de Gare, in the beginning of the reign 

 of Edward I. This Canterbury MS. (2) is the source from 

 which the British Museum MS. (12), as well as the Cam- 

 bridge University MS. (11), and the Trinity College MS. 

 (15) are derived. 



Paris. 



This manuscript has been fully described by M. Paulin 

 Paris in Les Manuscnts frangois de la Bibliotheque du Roi 

 (t. iii. p. 359), and it has also been printed by M. Lacour, 

 Traite inedit d'economie rurale (Paris, 1856). 



It occurs in a devotional work containing illustrations of 

 the Scriptures, and of the legends of the saints. It was 

 written in England in the thirteenth century, and probably 

 for a * grande dame.' The last eight folios of the volume 

 contain the treatise on estate management, which consists 

 of a curious combination of the treatise of Walter of Henley 

 and the anonymous Husbandry. At the end several other 

 chapters are added which contain receipts and other domestic 



