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21 In considering the Taxes themselves I shall, firstly, enumerate all the known editions, chiefly from the laborious and accurate Panzer, adding the letter M. to those which are des- cribed by Marchand ; and then I shall oflfer some remarks founded upon an examination of the contents of some of them. I*. Kegule Ordinationes et Constitutiones Cancellarie Sanctissimi dni nostri domini Sixti Divina Providentia Papa IIII. scripte et cor* recte in Cancellaria Apostolica — date in crasti- num assumptionis sue ad summi Apostolatus apicem, videlicet die decima mensis Augusti anni a Nativitate Dni mcccclxxi. In fine : Lecte et publicate fuerunt supradicte regale in Cancellaria apostolica die martis vicesima sep^ tima mensis Augusti anno dni mccoclxxi. Post quae : Sequuntur Taxe Cancellarie Apostolice, et primo de Expectativis Rubrica. Marchandi who had an imperfect copy, adds, " in xxxi para- graphs or chapters of different length." It is in quarto, and the whole occupies but 9 leaves, or 18 pages, with the average of 35 lines in a page. See a particular account of a perfect copy in the possession of Lord Spencer in the Rev. T. F. Dibdin's Bibliotbeca Spenceriana, vol. iii. pp. 488, 9. Although without name of