Lawlor — ^4 Calendar of the Rec/isfer of Archbifihoji Fleming. 97 



In the latter of our two gatherings, as we have seen, the leaf which once 

 followed f. 55, and foui- leaves (including the conjugate of the one just 

 mentioned) before f. 61 have been cut out. And at least one leaf between 

 ft". 58, 59, and its conjugate have disappeared.' These, with the existing 

 seven leaves, would make a gathering of fourteen. As this is without parallel 

 elsewhere, it may be assumed that the leaf which originally separated ff". 58, 59 

 was misplaced, and is now represented by the fragment between ff. 56, 57. 

 Thus the gathering was probably one of twelve leaves, of which the fifth, 

 seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth have been lost. 



The interval between our two gatherings — 31 January, 1414 (f. 64), to 

 22 June, 1415 (f. 56)- — is accoimted for by the supposition of a lost gathering. 

 The gathering represented by ft'. 55-60 must have been the last in the Eegister 

 if the date given by Ware for Fleming's death is correct.^ It not only contains 

 a document penned a few days before he died : on the other side of the same 

 leaf is a draft of the commission of a proctor of tlie chapter during a vacancy 

 of the see.* 



Our reconstruction of the Eegister of Ai-chbishop Fleming may be 

 represented thus, each gathering being indicated by a letter, and the lost 

 gatherings by letters enclosed in square brackets : 



Aio B,o C,o (C 2 lost, C 9 misplaced) [D] E,^ F,^ (F 6, 7 lost) [Gi, H,o] I,« 

 (I 5 misplaced, I 7, 9 lost) [J] K,, (K 5, 7-10 lost). 



From this it appears that four out of eleven gatherings, and a number of 

 leaves amounting to about one more gathering, have disappeared. In other 

 words, rather more than half the Eegister is in our hands. It should be added 

 that in the last gathering oui- loss is probably more apparent than real. The 

 Eegister was plainly brought to an end by the death of the archbishop, and it 

 is thus quite likely that the leaves which once stood between ff. 59, 60 were 

 all left vacant. 



This reconstruction seems to me in its main parts so certain that I venture 

 to express the hope that if the volume containing the Eegisters of Sweteman 

 and Fleming is reboimd — a work which must be done if it is to be preserved 

 for future generations of students — the leaves of its second part will be 

 arranged in their correct order and numbered afresh. In the following 

 Calendar the numbers of the leaves are given in the order suggested by my 

 examination of the manuscript, the seventeenth-centmy numbers, where they 

 differ, being in every case added in brackets. 



It remains to be said that the leaves nmnbered in the seventeenth century 

 66-68 were probably found by Ussher, and introduced by him into the volume ; 



' See no. 253. ' See nos. 239, 242. 



3 'Ware i. 85 puts his death in June, 1416. No. 256 is dated 22 June, 1416. ' No. 254. 



