Page:Archaeological Journal, Volume 3.djvu/16

2 and the application of some chemical mixture, with a view to render the writing distinct. In the new edition of the Monasticon is a copy of this charter, with the words filiæ meæ after Gonfredæ, as part of the original; but, in fact, erroneously, as they are interlined in a modern hand of the fifteenth century. In another Cotton MS., Vespasian E. 11, is an early fragment of a register of Lewes, which, under the heading Comes vetus, details the possessions of Lewes, which are confirmed by this royal charter in this form:—

The charter of William the Conqueror is apparently as follows:—