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 BIOGRAPHY OF THREE OXFORDSHIRE WRITERS. 2Sl Officiar,' cum salario cappcllaiii, ct in oxpens ' senesc,* Rcc ' et Aud ' allocat ' in conipoto Reccptoris ibidem, liujus aiuio, ut i)atet ibidem, 46/. 4s. 7Jf/. • Et valet ultra onera anual' hoc anno, 7!!.")/. 7x. 1 1 Jc/. hnle Deduct' inannuitat' Johaimis Constable, armigeri, 10/., Roberti Dauby 2/., et Tiionie Ikrston 10 marc eisdem per dominum concoss,' ut patct per comp ' Receploris prcdictuni, l.'>/. iU. Hs. 3Jrf. Inde Deduct ' in rcparacion ' ibidem hoc anno fact,' ct in dicto compoto recept' allocat' (14/. Sa. h/.) et rchpectuat * (1.5/. 16^. Hf/.) cumexpens' for' et neccssariis (6«. 8f/.) ut patet in codcm comitoto —32/. 12s. ](/. Et valet ultra hoc anno clare — 737/. 7s. 2^d. qui faciunt in marc' llOC marc" — 6irf. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS FOR THE BIOGRAPHY OF THREE OXFORDSHIRE WRITERS, GEFFREY OF MONMOUTH, WALTER MAP, ARCHDEACON OF OXFORD, AND ALEXANDER DE SWERFOKD. COMMUNICATED TO THE IIISTOhlCAL SECTION', AT THE MEETING OF THE IXSTITrTE AT OXFoI'.tl, BY SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS, BAKT., F.R.S., F S.A., &c. Many 'ho, in past ages, made themselves conspicuous cither by their actions or their writings, lay under gi-eat disad- vantage, because their deeds before the invention of printing:, were mentioned in few books, sometimes probably only in one, and therefore the knowledge of them was hable to be destroyed by a single accident. Moreover, their exploits or works having been recorded in characters which have grown obsolete with the lapse of time, the knowledge of their reputation was confined to those only who were capable of reading those characters. Therefore, all the events, which can throw additional light upon their history, should be collected together, and made accessible to the public by printing ; — it becomes even a duty in those, who discover such facts, to make them known. With this persuasion, the following memorials of the lives of three celebrated writers connected with Oxfordsliirc, collected from the Godstow Cartulary, are presented to the Archaeological Institute. Their names are, Geffrey Artur, generally called Geffrey of Monmouth, author of the " Historia Britonum : " Walter Map, author of " Lampoons against the Cistercians," a new monastic order which had sprung up a little before his time ; and Alexander de Swerford, supposed to be the author of the work entitled " De Scaccario." Geffrey Artur stands first in priority of time; partly