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INTRODUCTION 



There are also two very imperfect copies, one at Cam- 

 bridge marked Dd. ix. 38 f. 24%, and one in the British 

 Museum marked Add. 5762. The curious diversity of 

 arrangement which is found in these different copies can be 

 best exhibited in tabular form. 



VI. 



GROSSETESTE'S RULES. 



The occasion for the writing of Grosseteste's Rules has 

 been so clearly discussed by Pegge that it is unnecessary 

 to do more than state the results at which he has arrived. 



'John Laci, Earl of Lincoln, a person who had a great 

 share in the king's counsel, died July 22, 1240 ; and Mar- 

 garet, his dowager, " had the manors of Ingoldemers, 

 Throseby, Houton, and Seggebrock, assigned by the king 

 for her maintenance, untill her dowry out of her late hus- 

 band's lands should be set forth." She afterwards married 

 Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, 1242. And if that 

 piece of Bishop Grosseteste's intituled " Begulse quas bonaa 

 memorise Bob. Grosseteste fecit comitissaa Lyncolniee ad 

 custodiendum et regendum terras, hospitium domum et 

 familiam," was written for the service of this lady in 

 her widowhood, it must have been composed 1240 or 1241. 

 Bobert had been but a few years then in his see, but per- 

 haps there might be a family acquaintance and friendship 

 in the case, John Laci having been constable of Chester, 



