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The Literary Treasures of Longleat. 



forgive the sins of the said abbot when in articulo mortis, like as 

 the Roman Pontiffs were accustomed to do. This is dated at Avignon. 

 Then follow the prefatory matters appointed by Edward I. to be 

 prefixed to all monastic chartularies, having relation to his right to 

 a feudal superiority over Scotland. These are six in number : — 1. 

 The Genealogy of the Kings of England, (beginning from Adam) 

 down to Edward III. 2. Concerning the origin of Giants in the 

 Island of Albion. 3. Of the length and breadth of England. 4. 

 A citatory letter of Pope Bonafice for the kingdom of Scotland. 5. 

 A Declaration of the King of England about the affairs of Scotland. 

 6. A letter of the barons to Pope Boniface on behalf of the rights 

 of the Kingdom of Scotland. The date of the last charter registered 

 appears to be about 1361. At page 427 is a register of deeds in the 

 Treasury at Wells in the eighth year of Bishop William de Marchia, 

 A.D. 1301. This list is not found in the Glastonbury Cartulary in 

 the Bodleian Library, (Wood's MS. A.) There are also registers, 

 more or less perfect, of Maiden Bradley Priory, Co. Wilts, Cirencester 

 Abbey, Co. Glouc, and of St. Mary of Tame, Co. Oxon. Also a 

 rental of the Cistercian Abbey of Strata Florida, Co. Cardigan, a 

 book of expenses of Shaftesbury Abbey, 24 H. VIII., Sir W. 

 Uvedale being then Seneschal, and a rental of lands at Prestbury, 

 belonging to the Bishoprick of Hereford. The very old register of 

 Hereford of temp. Edw. I. or II., mentioned in Tanner's " Notitia," 

 p. 172, as being at Longleat, is not to be found there now. 



Another most curious and valuable MS. relating to Glastonbury 

 Abbey, entirely unknown to Bishop Tanner, Dugdale, and other 

 collectors of monastic records, came to light only a few months ago. 

 It is a Latin Register of the Abbey made in the first year of Henry 

 de Soliaco, Abbot, A.D. 1189, 1 Rich. I., only 100 years later than 

 the Domesday Book of William I. It is, in fact, a " Domesday 

 Book of the Abbey/' corresponding exactly, in form, with the 

 " Domesday Book of St. Paul's London," published by the Camden 

 Society, and so admirably edited by the late Archdeacon Hale. But 

 besides the estates belonging to the abbey, with the names of the 

 tenants, description of their tenures, &c, it contains an account of 

 the establishment maintained in the abbey itself, the different officers. 



