PREFACE 187 



duced in any of the various law trials that have taken place from 

 time to time. 



The copies from which these "Articles " have now been printed 

 may be described as follows 



I. The parchment copy. 



On the inside page of the outer cover are these entries viz. 



41 Nov. 25. 1735. I bought this copy of W. Hayhow of Ely, 

 who had it among a parcell of old parchments of Mr. Barnes, 

 whose ancestors had an estate there and are in the list of the 

 first contractors in the agreement. " and 



u July 1870. Mr. Wyles of Denney Abbey gave this copy to 

 me to place in the parish Chest. 



SAMUEL BANKS. 

 Rector of Cottenham. " 



At the foot of this copy is written 



44 Scriptum per me Rich d Robinson apud villam [de C ] 



quarto die Aprilis et anno D ni 1615." 



II. The paper copy. (1638). 

 This has at the foot 



14 Written by mee John Clarke in the yeare of our Lord God 

 one thousand six hundredth and thirtie eight. :) 



There are several notes in seventeenth century handwriting on 

 a spare sheet at the end of the book, as follows 



(A) 4t The Officers have two bookes of these orders fairlie writ, 

 one in parchment of fifteen leaves ' the other in paper of 

 twelve leaves." 



(B) The Decretall Order. 



44 IX die Maii Anno Regni Elizabethe Regine XXXIX. Inter 

 Willelmum Hynde et alios querentes, Georginam Pepes et alios 

 defendentes. 



1 This is not the same as the existing parchment copy which consists of ten 

 leaves. 



