Masonic And General Archaeologia.

e la vie Seint Eustace ; e la vie Seint Cudlac , e la Passioun n ' re Seygneur , e la Meditacioun Seint Bernard cle n ' re Dame Seint Marie ; e del Passioun sont douz fiz n ' re Seignr . ; e la vie Seint Eufrasie ; e la vie Seint Radegounde ; e la vie Seint Juliane ; un volum del Romaunce d'Alisaundre eve peintures , un petit rouge linere en le quel sonnt contuing mous diverses choses ; un volum del Romaunce des Mareschaus e de Firebras e de Alisaundre . Les queus

livres nous grauntous pur nos heyrs e pur nos assignes q'il demorront en la dit Abbeye . Escrites an Bordesleye le premier jour de may le an du regn le Roy Edwd . trentime quart . " Before we give the translation of this remarkable catalogue in Norman French , we may observe that mauy of the books have passed away and are known no more to book collectorsthough manyof courseare still familiar

, , , to the curious in such matters . " Know ye , that we haye bailed ancl left in the guard of the Abbot and Convent of Borcleslowe , to remain there for ever , all the Romances below named : one volume which is called Treasure ; one volume in which is the first Book of Lancelot ; and one volume of the Romance of Agnes ; a Psalter of Romance ; one volume of the Gospels ancl the Life of the Saints ; one

volume which speaks of the four principal acts of Charles , and of the Doyen , and of Meyace , ancl of Gerard of Vienne , ancl of Emery of Narbonne ; one volume of the Romance Edmund of Ageland , ancl of the King Charles , Doyen of Nanteuil ; ancl one volume of the Romance Titus ancl Vespasian ; and one volume of the Romance of Joseph of Ariuiathsea , and of the Hol y Graal '; ancl one volume which tells how Adam was sent out of Paradise , et the Genesis ; and

one volume in which are contained all the Romances , that is to say , ' " Vitas Patrum " at the beginning , and then a story of Anteypt , ancl the Vision of St . Paul , and then the lives of XII . Saints , and the Romance of "William de Longespee ; e " Autorites " of the Holy Men , et the Mirror of the Soul ; one volume in the which are contained the Life of the Holy Father and of Saint Paul , and other books ; one volume which is called Apocalypse , and one A'olume of Phisic and Surgery ; one volume of the Romances of Guy and the

Queen all entirely ; one volume of the Romance of Troy ; one volume of the Romance of William of Orange and Thibaud of Arabia ; one volume of the Romance of Amasis and of Idoinia ; one volume of the Romance Gerard of Vienne ; one volume of the Romance of Brut ancl King Constantino ; one volume of the teaching of Aristotle sent to King Alexander ; one volume of the Death of King Arthur-and of Mordred ; one volume in which are contained the Infancy

of our Saviour , how he was taken to Egypt , and the Life of St . Edward , and the Vision of St . Paul , the Vengeance of our Lord , by Vespasian and Titus , and the Life of St . Nicholas who was born in Patras , and the Life of St . Eustace , ancl the Life of St . Cudlac , and the Passion of our Lord , and the Meditation of St . Bernard on our Lad y Mary , and of the Passion of her sweet son Jesus Christ our Lordet the Life of St . Euphrasiaand the Life of St .

, , Radegonde , and the Life of St . Juliana ; one volume of the Romance of Alexander , with paintings ; a little red book , in which are contained many different things ; a volume of the Romance of Maraeschaux , ancl of Firebras ancl Alexander . The which books we grant for our heirs and assigns , that they shall remain in the said Abbey . Written at Bordeslowe , the first day of May , the thirty-fourth year of the reign of Edward . "