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![CASE C. 37. Register of the charters and writings of the monastery of St. Mary, Furness, compiled by William Dalton, Abbot thereof. a.p. 1412. Latin. Illwminated. The arms in the initial letters of the different charters are those of the persons by whom these charters were respectively granted. 38. Statutes made in Parliament from the Ist year of Hdward IV. to the llth year of Henry VII. [a.p. 1495.] French and English. Illuminated. Additions down to the Tth year of Henry VIL. 39. The Black Book of the Exchequer, containing a perpetual calendar, an almanac, drawings of the emblems of the four Evangelists and of Christ, the Virgin and Child, St. Thomas of Canterbury, St. Michael, and the Crucifixion, various notes and verses, the treatise called ‘“‘ Dialogus de Scaccario,” oaths of officers and other memoranda respecting the business of the Hixchequer. Latin. 4 A considerable portion of this volume dates from the reign of Henry III. The almanac was apparently made in 1239 or 1250, as- Easter Day occurs in it on the 27th of March. It has various inter- polations, such as contemporary notes of public events, from the battle of Lewes in 1264 to that of Flodden in 1513. The emblems of the four Evangelists are accompanied by the initial verses of their respective works, so that the volume might be used for the administration of oaths to officers of the Exchequer when required to swear on the Holy Gospels. It is remarkable that the drawing of St. Thomas of Canterbury was not erased from this volume, in pursuauce of the royal proclamation of 1538.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33157595_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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