The Appendices. middle of the lives of the abbats, several occur twice, and some even three times in the volume. The first Appendix to the present volume contains a description of all the shields of arms, which are drawn or described in the MSS. of Matthew Paris. I have arranged them in alphabetical order, as being the most convenient, and when there is no description, or when the description given in the MSS. is deficient, have supplied it. These are probably the oldest heraldic drawings in existence, and so little use has been made of them in the ordinary books on heraldry, that the bringing the descriptions together in this way will, I hope, be of advantage to students. In the second Appendix I have given the chief various readings of the Vatican copies of the Papal letters included in the history of Matthew Paris, which I have been able to find in the Regesta preserved in the Vatican archives.1 The third Appendix gives a full table of the contents of the Cotton MS. Nero, D. I, and the fourth a collation of the pages of the chief editions of Matthew Paris's history with those of the present edition for the convenience of reference. The final preface to the history I reserve for the concluding volume, which will contain the index and glossary. Cambridge, July 1882. See the preface to vol. v. p. xviii. 32. A.D. 1188, 2 April. Letter of Pope Clement III. to 33. A.D. 1188, 6 April. Letter of Pope Clement III. to 35. A.D. 1188, 12 April. Letter of Pope Clement III. to : 36. A.D. 1188, 13 April. of churches to be made before they are vacant Letter of Pope Clement III. to 39. A.D. 1188, 26 April. Letter of Clement III. to the English bishops, exempting St. Alban's from tithes. 40. A.D. 1188, 7 May. Letter of Pope Clement III. to the English prelates, requiring them to do justice to the complaints of the monks of St. Alban's against 41. A.D. 1188, 19 May. Letter of Pope Clement III. to Warin, abbat of St. Alban's, granting that there shall be no appeal from his judgment excepting to the Roman church or the cardinal legate 42. A.D. 1188, 19 May. Letter of Pope Clement III. to Warin, abbat of St. Alban's, forbidding the abbat 49. A.D. 1242, 10 April. Letter of Jordan, provincial vicar of the Franciscans in Poland, respecting the 50. A.D. 1242. Letter from a Dominican and a Franciscan 51. A.D. 1242. Letter enclosing a letter from Jordan, 52. A.D. 1244. Acquisitions to St. Alban's by Richard 53. A.D. 1244. Lawsuits sustained by Richard de Parco, 87 |