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of the contents are religious works. The copy of the Rules 

 corresponds very closely with that in the Douce collection. It 

 begins ' Ici cumencent les reules qe Eobert Grosteste euesqe 

 de Nichole fist a la cumtesce de Nichole.' The scribe has 

 been puzzled with the calculations as to the expenditure of 

 corn (see below, p. 127). He writes ' e ci uos despendez ij 

 quarters le iour ce sunt xiiij la simeine ceo sunt vij cenz e x ' 

 — and here a blank space has been left, which in another 

 hand has been filled in to make xxviij. The copy goes on 

 ' e ci vos despendez chescun ior pur acrestre uotre aumoine 

 ij quarters e demi ceo sunt en la symeine xvij quarters e 

 demi en Ian ' — and here a blank space of a line and a half 

 has been left ; another hand has added ' ce serra ix c quarters.' 

 These calculations are omitted in the Latin. This MS. has 

 been used to correct the text. 



Add. 5762 f. 136. — This copy is in an early fourteenth 

 century hand, and has a running title ' Compositio Manerii.' 

 The headings to the rules are not given ; in fact, there are 

 no divisions of any kind. The names of Grosseteste and 

 of the Countess of Lincoln do not appear in this copy ; the 

 treatise begins, • Cest escrit vos aprent coment seygnur ou 

 dame purra sauer en chescon maner totes les terres par lur 

 parceles, totes ces rentes, custumes, seruages, vsages, fran- 

 chises, feez & ses tenementz.' The passage containing the 

 calculations runs thus : ' Si vos despendetz deus quaters 

 le jour ceus sunt quatortze quarters la simayne ceus sunt 

 D.C.C. xxviij quarters par an. E si vos despendetz chescon 

 jour pur encrestre votre aumoyne deus quarters e demy ceus 

 sunt en la symaine xvij quarters e demy ceus sunt D.C.C. liiij 

 [sic] quarters par an.' 



Sloane MSS. 1986. — This fragment in English is printed 

 as the supplement. 



Canterbury. — This is an imperfect copy, in the form of 

 a roll ; but the first membrane has been lost, so that it com- 

 mences in the middle of the seventeenth Eule. It is in 

 beautiful preservation, in a thirteenth century hand, and 

 might even have been transcribed during the author's life ; 

 the Rules are given, but without titles. 



