^{page v note *} It is in the possession of John Speed Davies, esq. the Editor's father, to whom it has descended through the Speeds, from its last user John Speed the chronologer.

^{page vi note *} Life of Stowe, iv. xiv. ; Strype's Stowe's Survey, vol. i.

^{page viii note *} I am indebted for this information to the Rev. W. D. Macray, M.A. of New College, Oxford.

^{page xii note *} Occupatio infructuosa me multa scire impedit.

^{page xii note †} Rogatus enim pluries a Priore meo Claustrali quod de gestis antiquorum, de partibus propinquis ao remotis, de mirabilibus, de bellis, de gestis antiquis Christianorum et paganorum, modo chronieo, aliquid aetitarem, ita ut tetra otia, onaninò infructuosa, leviùs evacuarem.

^{page xii note ‡} “Terminatum est hoc opuseulum in anno Domini 1362, sub rege Edwardo a Conquestu tertio.” By a misreading of the figures this Chroniole has been described as ending in 1367 in a MS. note on the fly-leaf, and the mistake has been frequently copied. No change in the hand occurs till 1364, where the writer who finished the volume commences.

^{page xii note §} Quia ex laboribus antiquorum aliqua paucula medullata extraxi, hoc libellum conglobatum Eulogium volo nominari. Non enim sine causa Eulogium illud assero, quia studentibus et orantibus maximam preestabit recreationem cum voluerint a labore quiescere.

^{page xiii note *} P. 67: “Niniaiius quoque in Eulogio Historiarum has easdem urbes recenset ; et Nennius in catalogo urbium.” P. 273 : “Eulogii enim libro quinto (quern monachus Cantuariensis, non Maildunensis, ut Lelandus ait, scripsit), ubi de Arvirago sermo est, sic seribitur, “Vespasianus mare suleans,” &o. (Comp. Eul. f. 127.)

^{page xiv note *} “Inter cetera mirabilia, unum licet enarrare de sancto Thomâ meo patrono Cantuar. Metropol., accidit enim ipso exulante primo exilii sui anno,” (Compare also p. 14 of this volume.)

^{page xiv note †} “Pro his Nenniis et Ninianis vide Bale, De Scriptoribus Angliæ, centur. 14, fol. 192; centur. 10, fol. 27; centur. 1, fol. 60, et 72, et 14.”

^{page xiv note ‡} See note on page xii.