Tropenell Memoranda. 545 



estate." This .statement appears to 1)0 an inf(3r(jiK;(3 from two 



notes, dated 1695, but unsigned, tlie first of which is inserted in 



the Cartulary immediately after the dc^eds, &o., r(dating to Monks, 



and the other at the end of the volume. It may he allowed that 



the writer of the first note ap})eais to thank God that Monks had 



continued for close on a century in the family of Danvers, wlujiice 



it may he inferrtMl that he was a l)anv(M"s and the owner of Monks, 



while the fact that he was in a position to insert such a note at all 



certainly suggests that he was also the owner of the ])ook. 'i'he 



writer of the second note (and it may be taken for granted th;i t both 



notes are ))y the same hand) which is concerned with the descent 



of the manors of Nestori and Great Ghalfield, is either wrong in his 



facts or Mr. Davies' account (pp. xxvi. and Iv. of the " Summary of 



Contents," vol. i.) of the descent of these manors is inaccnrate — a 



• question which it would be desiral)le to decide, for if the writer of 



tiiese notes were not the owner of Monks he was almost certainly, 



one would think, the possessor either of Nestonor of Great Chalfield, 



unless, indeed, he were not the owner of the book at all ; but there 



is nothing whatever, at any rate, in the second note, to suggest 



that the writer was a Danvers. The further i-eason for supposing 



that the Cartulary followed thedescent of Monks is Canon Jackson's 



I statement {Aubrey, p. 82) that in 1744 it " was in the custody of 



Mr. Dickinson of Monks." The authority for Canon Jackson's 



I assertion appears to be wholly unknown, but Mr. Davies accepts 



I it, since, not only did he obtain the book from one of Mr. Dickinson's 



I descendants, but he found in the book itself (which Canon Jackson 



certainly never set eyes on) the iiis('ri[)ti(jn "erased with a knife." 



but " iust distinuuishablo wIhmi otherwise known,'' " iv Dickinson 



l^s(j. Monks, Wilts," "but no date appears to ha\(i liccn addcil." 



It is to be pfosunied that Mr. Silvester Da\irs had carefully 

 balanced the (nideiice, for lit^ refers ( / n/ rodi/ct io/i, ]). 1 )to " .lackson's 

 .\ubi(»y, note befon; Preface," ihal is Lo say, to a noU' written by 

 .lohn Awl)rey smuewhere between the years 1(5.")'.) and lOTi', as 

 follows: "Col. W'ni. I\\ re of Xeslon, in Co.sbain Tarish hath the 

 Lr-^icr r>ook (if t he l'"a!iiily of Trtipeiiell of Nesluii. 1 1 is an excellent 

 iiooke, in pai-cliniein, well \vi i 1 1," \'i'. ; and it may be juMt inent to 

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