Coll. MSS. Smithianis penes Editorem, Vol. 22. p.
54.

CLXX.

XIV. Inscriptiones singulares hactenus ineditæ, Ha-

driano Beverlando collectore. E Coll. nostris MSS.

Vol. 75. p. 1.

CLXXII.

XV. Robert of Brunne's account of the raising of

Stone-henge, from the French of Master Wace, who

followed Geffry of Monmouth.

CLXXXVIII.

XVI. An Account of St. Wenefride, from an old MS.

of the Book call'd Festival or Festial in the hands

of the above mentioned Thomas Ward, of Long-

bridge near Warwick, Esq.

CXCVI.

XVII. Extract of a Letter, written to the Publisher

from Winchester July 4th. 1724. by the Reverend

Mr. Richard Furney, relating to the Election of an

Abbess of Rumsey Nunnery in Hampshire, Anno

D. 1333. which confirms what is asserted in Peter

Langtoft, that the said Nunnery was founded by K.

Edgar for an hundred Nunns.

CCI.

XVIII. Extract of another Letter, written to the Pub-

lisher from Winchester Aug. 15. 1724. by the said Mr.

Furney, relating to the Number of the Nunns at Rum-

sey some time before the Dissolution, and to a Note,

about

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about our old Historians, in a MS. of Trivet at

Winchester.

CCII.

XIX. A Copy of Dr. Richardson's and Mr. Thoresby's

Letters about the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen,

treated of by Mr. Slacke, in the Account mentioned
below, Num. XXIV.

CCVI.

XX. Bishop Wren's Narrative, touching Prince

Charles's Judgment and Affection to the Religion of

the Church of England. From a MS. in the Ash-

molean Muséum.

CCVIII.

XXI. Extract of a Letter to the Publisher from Mr.

Graves of Mickleton in Gloucestershire, concerning

Campden in that County. With a remarkable

Passage, upon that occasion, out of an old anony-

mous MS. Author (stiled John Bever by Dr. Powell)

in Trinity College Library Oxon.

CCXIII.

XXII. Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as illustrated and
improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the Death of
Cadwalader to the End of K. Edward the First's
Reign. From a MS. in the Inner-Temple Library. I

XXIII. The Copy of a Roll concerning Gla-
stonbury Abbey, being a Survey of all the
Estates belonging to that House at the Disso-
lution, taken by King Hon. the Eighth's or-

der

der and for his use. From a MS. in the Hands of a

Friend at Colchester.

343

XXIV. An Account of the Hospital of St. Mary

Magdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamshire, by John

Slacke, Master of that Hospital. From a MS. in the

Hands of Thomas Frewin, of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq. 389

XXV. A Discourse about some Roman Antiquities

discover'd near Conquest in Somersetshire, supposed

to be the Place where the Romans Conquest of Bri-

tain was compleated. By an anonymous Author.
Transcrib'd from a MS. lent to the Publisher by
Mr. James West of Balliol-College, A. D. 1722.

441

XXVI. A Discourse concerning Stone-Henge. From
another MS. lent to the Publisher by the same
Friend, Mr. James West, of Balliol-Coll. written in
the same hand, and by the same anonymous Author.

XXVII. Glossary.

XXVIII. Index.

480

518

690

THE PUBLISHER'S

PREFACE.

THE Robert of Gloucester, mentioned in the printed Life of St. Thomas Cantilupe, different from the Author of the Chronicle, and even from the other Roberts of Gloucester spoke of in my Preface to that Chronicle. §. 1. Yet he seems to have been in the vigour of his Age at the time of the Chronicler's Death. A Mistake of Bishop Godwin's. §. 11. No reason, from the time in which they lived, to take Robert of Gloucester the Historian and Robert of Gloucester the Secretary to be one and the same person. The Historians in former Times were the Religious, who often lost their first Sirnames, and, upon compiling their famous Works, were sirnamed anew from the Houses of which they were Members. §. III. Yet there were rather more that retain'd their first Sirnames, after they became noted for their Writings. John Wethamstede of a greater character than Matthew Paris. The Historical Passages in Dr. Gascoigne's Theological Dictionary should

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