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Plinius in Præfatione Natural. Histor. ad Vespasianum Augustum.

Res ardua, vetustis novitatem dare, novis auctoritatem, obsoletis nitorem, obscuris lucem, fastiditis gratiam, dubiis fidem, omnibus vero naturam, & naturæ suæ omnia.

THE CONTENTS.

1. THE Publisher's Preface.

pag. IX.

II. De Petro Longatosta [lege Longatofta.] E Pitseo

de illustrib. Angliæ Scriptoribus.

XCIV.

III. De eodem. E Lelandi Comm. de Scriptorib.

Brit.

XCV.

IV. De eodem. E Bibliotheca Gesneri.

ibid.

V. Concerning Peter de Langetoft. Out of Bp. Nicol-

son's Eng. Historical Library.

XCVI.

VI. Robert of Brunne's Prologue to his Chronicle.

ibid.

VII. Extract of a Letter, relating to Robert of

Brunne and Peter de Langtoft, written

Vol. I.

.

from London to the Publisher by the late learned

John Bridges, Esq. Nov. 28. 1723.

CI.

VIII. Robert of Brunne's Transition (called a Pro-

logue by Mr. Bridges) from the first to the second

Part of his Chronicle.

CV.

IX. The Proceedings of the Abbat and Convent of

Winchester against Joan of London, A. D. 1285.

From an old MS. Fragment of that Age, given to the

Publisher by Thomas Ward of Longbridge near

Warwick, Esq.

CVII.

X. A Letter concerning the reputed Nunnery at Lit-

tle-Gidding in Huntingtonshire. From a MS. lent

to the Publisher on July 6th. 1724. by the foresaid

Thomas Ward, of Longbridge near Warwick,

Esq.

CIX.

XI. A Copy of the printed Pamphlet about the reputed

Nunnery at Little-Gidding in Huntingtonshire.

CXXV.

XII. Dr. Wallis's Account of some Passages of his

own Life. E Coll. MSS. Smithianis penes Editorem,

Vol. 22. p. 38.

CXL.

XIII. An Extractofa Letter from Dr, John Wallis to Dr.

John Fell, then Lord Bishop of Oxford, dated April

8. 1685. concerning the Report spread about of Dr.

Wallis's deciphering King Charles the Ist's Letters. E

Coll.

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.

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

b 2

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

Winchester.

CCLII.

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.

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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.

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 Hen. the Eighth's or-

der