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(8) Since the Irish have great facility in escaping after depredations 

 owing to the density of their woods and the depth of their morasses, the 

 more so because the king's highway through the woods is often impassable, it 

 is agreed that the lords of such woods and their tenants shall keep the highway 

 open ; the king or chief justiciary, if necessary, causing them to have aid in 

 doing so from the whole adjacent district. 



(9) A similar enactment is made about the repairing and maintenance of 

 causeways and bridges. 



(10) The whole community of Leinster, formerly a single liberty, is to 

 unite for the purpose of levies and contributions and of making war upon the 

 Irish. 



(11) Since the degenerate English affect Irish costume and, shaving part 

 of their heads, let their hair grow long at the back, and call it " culan," so that 

 Englishmen have been mistaken for Irish and have been slain, and enmity and 

 rancour have been caused thereby, it is agreed that all Englishmen in Ireland 

 shall conform to English customs in these matters, " nee amplius presumant 

 auertere comes in colanum." The justiciary and sheriff and seneschal of each 

 liberty are to compel obedience. 



(12) In each liberty and county where there are Irish inhabitants there 

 shall be two magnates who, when the chief justiciary is in remote parts, may 

 conclude truce with Irishmen who betake themselves to war ; and they shall 

 immediately report their acts to the justiciary. 



Printed in the Miscellany of the Irish Archmological Society (1846), p. 15, 

 and Irish Statutes, 194, where the date is discussed. 



14. Epistle of Aristotle to Alexander the Great, called " Secretum 

 Secretorum." f. 8. 



15. Treatise on the Sibyl. f. 16\ 



f. 19. 



16. Beginning of a treatise on Purgatory. 

 The entire treatise appears below, no. 138. 



17. Poem called " Imago Mundi." f . 20. 

 13th century (?). In French. 



This has probably some connexion with the poem called V Image du Monde, which was composed 

 in the year 1245, though it is much shorter. See Carl Fant, V Image du Monde, pocme inedit du 

 milieu du .^•i^t« siecle, in TJpsala Universitets Arsskrifi, 1886, and Sistoire Littcraire de la France, 

 xiii. 29-i. 



18. Narrative, the sections of which are headed "De conceptione 

 precursoris Domini," " De conceptione Saluatoris per Spiritum sanctum," 

 " De ortu precursoris Domini," &c. f . 30''. 



