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duobus inilitibus comitatuum. The sections De gradibtis, Be loco, De hostiario, 

 De clamatore, De stationibus, De atuilio, De partitione, and De transcriptis are 

 absent. G-enerally speaking, the text follows the edition published by Hardy 

 in 1846/ although there are many minor differences and omissions. 



The second English " Modus," E. 3 . 18, f. 4, is bound up with the two for 

 Ireland as the first part of a miscellaneous volume. It is written on paper, 

 and evidently someone called Lumley^ had some connexion with it, for the 

 name and tlie initials " L. S. L.'' appear. The hand in which it is written 

 belongs to the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century.^ It is not a 

 transcript of E. 4. 5, but is evidently made from one of the later mss. of the 

 English "Modus." It is of small importance in comparison with the other 

 English transcript, E. 4. 5. 



The other two documents are transcripts of the "Modus" for Ireland. They 

 are also written on paper in a late hand. The first of them, E. 3, 18, f. 1, agrees 

 litteratim with the Irish " Modus," printed for the first time by Anthony 

 Dopping, Bishop of Meath, in 1692.^ It also breaks off at the same place as 

 Dopping's edition with the words c(Btera desunt in antiquo manuscripto e quo ista 

 desiiinpsimus. Now Dopping in the introduction to his " Modus " said that he 

 printed it from a MS. in his possession wliich had been originally in the 

 Treasury at Waterford/ and which he believed was " the very Original 

 Eeeord said by my Lord Cook to have been in the custody of Sir Christopher 

 Preston in the 6th of Henry IV.'"* He thought that there were internal 

 evidences,' as well as " the character, ink, and parchment," which proved it 

 " to have been composed and transcribed in the reign of King Henry II." 

 His sou showed the MS. to Molyneux, who testified to its " venerable antient 

 appearance."* This MS., which would be of the highest value, cannot now be 

 found,' but it is evident that tlie transcript before us was made from it, and 



1 Hardy, " Modu.s tenendi Parliamentum." The "Modus " was published from the 

 same text by D'Achery, Spicilegium, p. 557 (see " Eng. Hist. Rev.," as above). 



= MS. T.C.D.,E. 3. 18, f 4, "Lumley," at the foot of the page, f. 9.v. "L.S.L." 



2 Monck-Mason, "MS. Catalogue of Manuscripts in Trinity College, Dublin," about 

 the year 1600. 



* Dopping "Pamphlets," No. 4. 



^ Hari-is'd Ware, "Antiquities," p. 86. Sir R. Bolton (c. 1644) saw exemplification 

 under Great Seal of Statutes not in the Rolls, which were in the Treasury of Waterford. 



"iJecteHen. V. 



' (1) Conqtcestor Hibernie, a title proper only to Henry II, (2) the mention of the four 

 Irish Archbishops who had received their palls just before the invasion, (3) pi-ocurator terre, 

 the style of the chief governor in the reign of Henry II, disused later, (4) the provision 

 for choosing a justice in the absence of the king or procurator, exercised after Strongbow's 

 death. 



* Molyneux, "Case of Ireland," p. 36. 



^ Major Dopping-Hepenstall, the present representative of the family, has not got it. 



