Quintum Principale.

[The intent of this Part is seen in the Preface to it, before p. 5, but it is not carried out as fully as it might have been, no references being actually made to any “bokes or levis,” not even to the Charters of Henry III. It principally consists of the Charter of Confirmation of 20 Dec, 47 Edw. III. (1374), a long document, which recites and includes four others, all made in the same year:* namely, the Charter 8 Aug. 47 Edw. III., which made Bristol into a County, and gave other privileges (Seyer's Charters of Bristol, 1812, No. 12); and the Exemplification of the Perambulation of the Bounds of the County so made, Oct. 30, 47 Edw. III. (Seyer, No. 15); which last itself recites the Letters Patent of 1 September, directing the perambulation to be made (Scyer, No. 13), and the record of the Perambulation, made on 30 September, in the same year (Seyer, No. 14). All this occupies fos. 211a to 224a, and is in Bicart's own hand, the front page having a floral illuminated border round it with a handsome initial letter. In copying the Charter, however, Eicart has omitted the first two clauses (“Edwardus dei, &c.” and “Inspeximus,”) and has begun with the third clause (“Edwardus dei,” &c.) which is in fact the first recital. This omission another hand has supplied on the blank page opposite (fo. 210b), apparently from an Inspeximua of Edw. IV., as it adds one more clause in which Edward is spoken of as “nuper Rex.”