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Regino of Prüm, Chronicon. 17r-35v
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Cronica abbatis Prumiensis monasterii a Christo nato ad annum 1002. 17r-35v
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- Regino of Prüm
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(17r) Incipit cronica abbatis prumiensis monasterii ubi lotharius imperator ad conuersionem uenit
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(17r) Anno imperii Octouiani cesaris xl. ii. iesus Christus filius dei natus est
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Here begins a hand which has written the bulk of the volume
(29r) Liber II
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(35v) ex quo uulnere eadem nocte extinguitur
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(35v) Explicit cronica abatis prumiensis ecclesiae
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Regino of Prum. MGH. Scriptores I 537. This MS. was not seen by the editors. It ends in 1002 (p. 609 MGH)
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Richard of Hexham OSA, De gestis regis Stephani et de bello standardii. 36r-46r
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Historia piae memoriae Ricardi prioris Hagustaldensis ecclesiae de gestis regis Stephani et de bello Standardii. 36r-46r
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- Richard of Hexham OSA
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Originally began on the same page (f. 35v) but a little more than half a column has been erased. The two next leaves were cut out and replaced by a sheet (still cent. xii) in at least three hands
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(36r) Incipit historia pie memorie prioris Ricardi Haugustaldensis ecclesiae De gestis regis Stephani et de bello standardii
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(36r) Anno uerbi incarnati m.c.xxxv
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Last printed in Chronicles of Stephen, Henry II, Richard I (Rolls) by R. Howlett: III p. lvi: 137. This is the only copy
Ends
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(46r) defuncti sunt
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(46r) Explicit bellum standardii
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Simeon of Durham OSB, Epistola ad Hugonem decanum Eboracensem de archiepiscopis Eboracensium. 48v-90r
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Epistola Simeonis monachi ecclesiae S. Cuthberti Dunelmi ad Hugonem decanum Eboracensem de archiepiscopis Eboraci. 48v-90r
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- Simeon of Durham OSB
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(48v) Ed. Raine, Historians of the Church of York (Rolls) II xvii 252, principally from another MS. Twysden Scriptores, col. 75, gives our text
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Simeon of Durham OSB (attrib.), De obsessione Dunelmi et de probitate Ucthredi comitis et de comitibus qui ei succeserunt. 50r-51v
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De obsessione Dunelmi et de probitate Uithredi comitis. 50r-51v
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- Simeon of Durham OSB (attrib.)
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(50r) Arnold: Symeon of Durham (Rolls) I 315, Twysden, col. 79
Ends f. 51v
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Simeon of Durham OSB, Historia regum. 52r-129v
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Historia sanctae et suavis memoriae Symeonis monachi et precentoris ecclesiae sancti Cuthberti Dunelmi de regibus Anglorum et Dacorum et creberrimis bellis et rapinis et incendiis eorum post obitum venerabilis Bedae presbiteri fere usque ad obitum Henrici filii Willelmi nothi. 52r-129v
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- Simeon of Durham OSB
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The title (Incipit historia sancte et suauis etc.) is written on f. 51v at the bottom of col. 2. But f. 52r sqq. are in a different hand, with rubric in large letters at top
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(52r) Incipit passio sanctorum Ethelberti atque Ethelredi regie stirpis puerorum
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After four leaves the hand settles down into one like that of no. 1 which continues to f. 76r
f. 59v, recto blank, is an insertion of cent. xvi with the Prologus Rogeri de Houedon in historiam suam (which imitates the lost prologue of Symeon) At the top of f. 60r is a xvith cent. note Historia Simeonis Dunelm. monachi. sed desunt folia nonnulla. debuerat posuisse immediate post titulum operis ante passionem Ethelberti et Ethelredi This is the only copy of the Historia Regum of Symeon: last printed by Arnold, Symeon of Durham II (Rolls: for his account of the MS. see p. x, etc.). Parts of the text occur in a xiith cent. MS. formerly Ashburnham, Appendix, no. 112 now Bibl. Nat. Nouv. acq. Lat. 692. A transcript of the C. C. C. MS. is in MS 100. 1 There are marginalia in various hands, notably one very tall one There seems to be a change of hand at f. 76r (Arnold, p. 95), Sequitur recapitulatio The hand which follows, on f. 77r, begins with a large red and green initial. It goes on for a long time
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John of Hexham OSA, Continuation of Simeon of Durham OSB's Historia regum. 129v-132v
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Historia Ioannis prioris Hagustaldensis ecclesiae XXV annorum. 129v-132v
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- John of Hexham OSA
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(129v) Printed by Arnold, Symeon of Durham II 284
On 134r is a rude late (?) sketch of a comet On 134v intervene, in the text of John of Hexham, between pp. 296 and 297 of Arnold's ed., nos. 9 (Carmen Serlonis), 9a (Carmen de morte Sumerledi), 10 (Ailred, Relatio de standardo) Another copy of 8 is in Bibliothèque Nationale Nouv. acq. Lat. 692 (see above on 7)
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Serlo of Fountains OCist, Descriptio de bello inter regem Scotiae et barones Angliae. 132v-133r
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Descriptio Serlonis monachi fratris Radulphi abbatis de Parcho de bello inter regem Scotiae et barones Angliae. 132v-133r
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- Serlo of Fountains OCist
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(132v) Carmen Serlonis. Twysden, col. 331. Raine, Lawrence of Durham, p. 74
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William of Glasgow, Carmen de morte Sumerledi. 133r-133v
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- William of Glasgow
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(133r) Carmen de morte Sumerledi. Arnold, l. c. II 385. Skene, Fordun I, Appendix V Raine, l. c. p. 78
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Aelred of Rievaulx OCist, Relatio de standardo. 134r-138r
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Descriptio venerabilis viri Aetheldredi abbatis Rievallis de bello inter regem Scotiae et barones Angliae apud Standardum juxta Alvertoniam. 134r-138r
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- Aelred of Rievaulx OCist
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Aethelred de bello Standardi, Chronicles of Stephen etc. II, see p. lviii. Skene, Fordun I, Appendix IV 136
Begins with a large red and green initial. On ff. 136v, 137r are two marginal drawings of the Standard: the first is late (cent. xvi?), the other original. These or similar ones have been often reproduced On f. 140r the text of item 8 is resumed. Arnold p. 297
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(138r) Explicit descriptio Aethelredi abbatis
(138r) Incipit descriptio predicti prioris haugustaldensis ecclesie
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Ends f. 149r
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Aelred of Rievaulx OCist, Miraculum de quadam sanctimonali de Watton. 147r-149v
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Quoddam miraculum mirabile descriptum a viro venerabili Aethelredo abbate Rievall. de quadam sanctimoniali femina de Wattun. 147r-149v
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- Aelred of Rievaulx OCist
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Printed in Twysden, col. 415. Migne P. L. CXCV 789
(149v) At end a xvith cent. note referring to the Life of St Elizabeth in MS 138 item 10
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Stephen of Whitby OSB, Historia fundationis abbatiae Sanctae Mariae Eboracensis. 150r-152v
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Quo modo et a quibus cenobium Sanctae Mariae Eboraci fundatum sit, et quantas invidorum perturbationes impulsum sustinuerat, sed Dei protegente gratia magis ac magis auctum et multiplicatum fuerat; autore Stephano ejusdem cenobii abbate. 150r-152v
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- Stephen of Whitby OSB
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Printed in Monasticon III 544
(150r) Begins with a green initial. These three leaves are in a fresh hand, upright and regular
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Thurstan archbishop of York, Epistola de egressu monachorum Fontanensium. 153r-158r
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Epistola Thurstini archiepiscopi Eboraci ad Wilhelmum archiepiscopum Cantuariae de cenobio Sanctae Mariae Eboraci et observantia regulae Sancti Benedicti in eo. 153r-158r
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- Thurstan archbishop of York
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(153r) See Memorials of the Abbey of St Mary of Fountains, ed. Walbran, Surtees Society 1863
The script is probably the same as that of item 11 etc.
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William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum (excerpt). 158r-160r
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De vita et conversatione Gereberti papae. 158r-160r
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- William of Malmesbury OSB
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(158r) From William of Malmesbury Gesta Regum I 193-201 fallere
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William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum (excerpt). 160r-161v
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Visio Karoli imperatoris. 160r-161v
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- William of Malmesbury OSB
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(160r) ibid. I 112
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William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum (excerpt). 161r-161r
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Visio S. Maurilii. 161r-161r
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- William of Malmesbury OSB
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(161r) ibid. II 327
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William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum (excerpt). 161r-161v
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De annulo statuae commendato. 161r-161v
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- William of Malmesbury OSB
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(161r) ibid. I 256
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Geffrei Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis (excerpt). 162r-165r
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Narratio de uxore Ernulfi ab Aella rege Deirorum violata. 162r-165r
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- Geffrei Gaimar
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Printed in Gaimar (Rolls) I 328; also in the Notes to Gaimar, Monumenta I 795 and in Wright's Caxton Society edition
On a fresh quire and in a large regular hand
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Visio cuiusdam clerici de gloria regis Malcolmi. 165v-165v
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Visio cujusdam clerici de gloria regis Malcolmi. 165v-165v
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(165v) Visio Malcolmi cui ad singula interrogata super statu suo in hunc sensum respondit
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(165v) Cur sic care taces. pro me loquitur me(a) uita
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(165v) quidque tuis mandans perpetuo ualeant
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(165v) Rex uero Malcolmus summe ingenuitatis titulus ueluti surculus ex dulcissima abscisus arbore
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(165v) lucidissima in celestes thesauros intulerunt mella
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Skene, Fordun I, Appendix VI, from a copy furnished by Mr Henry Bradshaw: Raine, l. c. p. 81
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Nennius (attrib.), Historia Brittonum. 166r-176v
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Eulogium brevissimum Britanniae insulae quod Ninnius Elvodugi discipulus congregavit. 166r-176v
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- Nennius (attrib.)
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A new volume, double columns of 35 lines, hand very slightly sloping, plain red initials
The first leaf was originally blank On the recto is a paragraph in a small hand of cent. xiii early, not beginning at the top of the page (166r) Gualenses nichilominus insistebant ius suum sibi concedi postulantes Quid enim inquiunt o rex formidas et tunicas illas ferreas quas eminus cernis nimium expauescis. Nobis certe sunt latera ferrea pectus ereum mens timoris uacua quorum nec pedes fugam nec unquam uulnus terga sensere. quid gallis apud cliderhou profuere lorice. Numquid non inermes isti ut dicunt illos et loricas proicere et negligere et scuta relinquere coegerunt. Uideat igitur o rex prudentia uestra quale sit in his habere fiduciam que in necessitate magis sunt oneri quam consolationi. Nos apud cliderhou de loricatis uictoriam reportauimus. Nos hodie et istos anime uirtute pro scuto utentes lanceis prosternemus. Hoc bellum factum est inter anglos et pictos et scottos apud cliderhou feria vi die vii [xii?] ante natiuitate sancti Johannis Baptistae anno predicto id est m. c. xxx viio Bellum apud Cliderhou ubi multi nobiles et ignobiles perierunt This is a quotation from Aelred de Bello Standardi (Chronicles of Stephen etc. II, p. 190) On f. 168v are various items enumerated by Mommsen in his prolegomena to Nennius, Mon. Germ. Hist. XIII 1 (Chronica Minora III 1), p. 125 On the margin (166v) Incipit apologia. Nemnii britonum historiografi and (166v) Incipit hystori[c]a ortografia mundi (not as Mommsen) Col. 1.
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(166v) Incipit eulogium breuissimum brittannie insule. quod Ninnius eluodugi discipulus congregauit
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(166v) Ego Ninnius eluodugi
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(166v) Cedo illi qui plus nouerit in ista pericia satis quam ego
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(166v) Explicit eulogium
(166v) Item eiusdem quod scribi debet in fine libri (166v) De malis et peruersis naturis gen-ti-um
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(Chronica Minora II 389)
Inuidia iudeorum This is written in two columns, with additions by the large hand which annotates the MS. throughout and also by a neater and smaller hand The original hand goes down to Ira brittonum then De bonis naturis gentium Prudencia hebreorum to Argutia hispanorum The large hand adds to col. 1 Libido sueuorum Duricia (uel superbia above) pictauorum The original hand already had Duricia pictorum It adds to col. 2 A line erased Communio normannorum Grecus irascitur ante causam Francus in causa Romanus propter causam Francus fortis Romanus grauis Affer semper uersipellis The second (smaller) hand adds to the Vices Spurcicia sclauorum Rapacitas normannorum Normanni nimis sunt animosi The large hand adds to the Virtues Sollercia egiptiorum Col. 2. At top, three lines erased, perhaps written by the large hand Despicientes deum viiio ab (hole in vellum) bates fuerunt Riccardus prior primus abbas de fontibus [1132] Riccardus sacrista se(cundus) abbas de fontibus [1139] Lower down are the additions to the list of Virtues and Vices Then in the original hand the two poems Adiutor benignus, and Fornifer
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(167r) Sancti spiritus assit nobis gratia. Incipit Res gesta a Nennio sapiente composita
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With marginal and interlinear additions in several hands including the large hand and the hand of f. 168v
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(176v) finibus cosmi
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(Mommsen, p. 218): the section ending thus is placed by several other MSS. as well as this after that ending Luchechach (Mommsen, p. 219) which forms the end of M.'s text
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Caradog of Llancarfan, Vita Sancti Gildae. 176v-179r
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Res gestae a Nennio sapiente compositae, Vita sanctissimi atque doctissimi viri Gildas autore Caradoco Nancarbanensi. 176v-179r
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- Caradog of Llancarfan
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(176v) Vita Gildae
Mommsen, p. 107 Capitula and rubric in the hand of f. 168v Ends 181r In another rough hand follow (a) Col. 1. The poem Fornifer (b) Col. 2. On the translation of St Benedict to Fleury
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(179v) Circa hec tempora cum in castro cassino
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(c) (De naturis gentium)
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(179v) Inuidia iudeorum
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(179v) Duritia uel superbia pictauorum
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This is copied in a confused order
In the lower margin the name Aelsi On the verso and last leaf are many xvth cent. scribbles and a few earlier On the Kings of England On the same, in verse: Dux Normannorum Willelmus vi validorum (to Edward III) Willelmus rufus. versus Visibus humanis aulas ornatas inanisfecit fundare propter sua festa parareaulam maiorem construxit Londoniarumorbis terrarum non optinet utilioremIudicibus legis ac ad conuiuia regisregnum regnorum flos est domus illa domorum (Referring to Westminster Hall) Further notes on English Kings Drawings of two bearded men: one labelled Tome T.. ywalle A badly written name Arthur Harvy(?)
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