principal contents will be found in the new Monasticon, It is also described by Edwards, pp.

vol. ii, p. 434n. lxxxvii, xcvi.

7, 8. The two little Cotton Manuscripts, TITUS D. XXVI and XXVII, in the British Museum, which belonged to Abbot Elfwine, are fully described in the Appendix, pp. 251 et seq.

According to the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica (Nichols, 1834), vol. i, p. 206, Cartularies of Hyde abbey were in the possession of Sir Christopher Hatton, and Sir Henry St. George, 1697.

9.

The latest additions to this series, which are now available to public use, were preserved until recently in the library of the late Earl of Ashburnham at Ashburnham Place, near Battle in Sussex. In the year 1883 the greater part of this library (shorn, however, of some of its most valuable MSS.) passed into the possession of the authorities of the British Museum; among the manuscripts are this Hyde Register, and :—

STOWE MS. 959. A small folio paper copy, containing TRANSCRIPTS of parts of the LIBER DE HYDA, not always agreeing with the printed edition.

At the beginning is written :

"Liber Abbatiæ de Hyda juxta Winton, formerly belonging to Peter le Neve, Esqre, fell into the Hands of Joseph Edmondson, Esqre, Mowbray Herald, A.D. 1765— from whom I had it July 17, 1716.

ANDREW DUCAREL."

"Purchased at the sale of the MSS. of the late Dr. Ducarel, April, 1786.

T. ASTLE."

"The Book of Hyde in great Parchment is mentioned at folio бob.

"M. to inquire if the Book is not still preserv'd among the Archives of the Church of Winchester."

Le Neve has written at folio 2 the following title :"Exemplar Libri olim pertinentis Abbatiæ Hyde in Com. South'ton juxta Winton.

Liber Petri le Neve al's norroy.

A. Dñi 1704."

This MS. is described in O'Conor's Bibliotheca MS. Stowensis, 1819, 4to, vol. ii, p. 42, but with many errors and omissions. It bears the book plates of I. C[ole] and Andrew Ducarel.

INJUNCTIONS MADE BY

WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, FOR THE BETTER GOVERNMENT OF HYDE ABBEY,

DATED AT SOUTHWARK MANOR,

8 FEB., A.D. 1386 (1387).

(From a MS. in the custody of the Warden of New College, Oxford.)