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 1921 AVEANGHES MANUSCRIPT OF VACARIUS 553 scheme. Its chief features will be best brought out by a comparison with V. In V there is a red-letter title inscription followed by U or P or other the initial of the first jurist extracted, by I (Imperator), if the group of extracts is from the code. A similar coloured initial marks the transition from the one group of extracts to the other. The capitals are alternately red and blue, followed by a blue or red initial in the next word. I, P, M, &c, are often prolonged, and sometimes in two colours, and may have simple adornment. From about fo. 143 b green occurs as well. Minor divisions within titles are made by paragraph mark (^j), never coloured. The beginning of a new book is celebrated by a much larger initial (U, P, I, &c.) highly adorned. The scheme of A is fundamentally the same, but has the following elaborations. IMP (Imperator) are in alternate red and blue, the I, as well as U, P, &c, developing long arabesques of opposite colours. There is a coloured I for each constitution, red paragraph marks, and red initials of sub-extracts and of main glosses. Blue and red only are used. Whoever planned A took Vacarius's work very seriously, and made no Liber Pauperum. There are also signs of internal elaboration ; though the text is not tampered with, yet by collation with a complete Corpus an extract is occasionally referred to its proper place by citation of the initial word of the lex at the head of sections, and of the section where the actual extract does not include that initial. I hope on some later occasion to give details respecting the small-hand gloss. I will only add here that it is incomplete. It covers book 1 and the first page of book 2. It resumes at the beginning of book 3, running as far as fo. 49 b. All that is extant of book 4 is very heavily glossed, and so is book 6. Books 5, 7, 8, and 9 are blank. F. DE ZULUETA. Exchequer and Wardrobe in i2jo The following document is pinned to the Close Roll of 1270 (54 Henry III). 1 It illustrates the difficulty found by the king in raising money at this time, 2 and perhaps also the ' bureaucratic disaffection ' which has been noticed in another place, the chancery, at the same period. 3 One passage which deserves special attention is that in which the treasurer and chamberlains state that, since the king's departure, the receipts have amounted to one single penny. It seems possible, however, that from this sentence the word non has disappeared. L. Ehelich. Cl. 87, m. 2 r in cedula. Excellentissimo domino suo H. dei gracia Regi Anglie illustri Domino Hibernie et Duci Aquitanie fideles sui Th. Thesaurarius et Camerarii 1 A reference to it was made, with my consent, in The London Mercury, ii. 631. 8 See Tout, Chapters in Mediaeval Administrative History, i. 316. 3 Hid.