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TEOPENELL MEMOKANDA. 



I. — Notes upon a MS. in the possession of Majoe J. M. 

 Benett-Stanfokd, of Pythouse. 



The printed texb of the TropeneU Carhdary is as perfect as a 

 good scholar, working with infinite patience and industry at a task 

 he loved, could make it, while the Cartulary itself is the most 

 wonderful thing of its kind, for completeness and variety of interest, 

 that we possess. There was no little romance, moreover, attaching 



seemed desirable to ascertain if possible tlie history of this newl 

 MS. and the nature of its contents. The present owner of fchel 

 MS. readily welcomed the enquiry, and the following notes are thej 

 result. 



The MS. (lately Phillipps, 164) consists of twenty-one sheets of 

 foolscap (eighty-four pages written on both sides), numbered con- 

 secutively and bound up ; and there is nothing in the character of 

 the handwriting (which is not uniform) or the binding, inconsistent 

 with the supposition that it is throughout a domestic product oi 

 Sir Thomas Phillipps' establishment. It contains copies in extensc 

 of a few documents and abstracts in English of a number of others,! 

 but there is no account given in it of the source from which these 

 documents were derived. It may be reasonably conjectured that (15 



