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Hand ; and that he fhortly after died in 144.5. Hence-forward thefe Annals are entred with promifcuous'Hands,which may be prefumed the proper Hand-Writings ofthe Regillers of this Noble Order, as they fucceededeach other in the Office.

After we find Richard Sidnor mention’d in the RegifterAnno 16 Hen. VIII. (who fubfcribed his Name at the footof every Leaf) the Annals were pen’d in one Hand untilAnno 26 Hen. VIII. that Robert Aidry dee, D. D. and one ofthe Canons of Wind for fucceedcd him 5 and then ’tisevident the Writing alfo was changed to an old fetRoman Hand, which ran on to the End of 29 Hen. VIU.in which Year he was advanced to the Bifhoprick ofCar!ijle 3 and this Book breaks off in the 31 If of hisReign.

Besides this there is another Book that goes by theName of the Bdach Book, wherein the Annals of theOrder are tranfcribed in Latin, concerning which therepafs’d a Decree, Anno 3 Hen. VII. that it fhould be fairlycopy’d out, and afterwards that the Sovereign fhouldbe put in Remembrance of it 3 but neither of thefe De-crees was put in execution, nor was this confirm’d tilltowards the End of the Reign of King Henry VIII.This Book differs very little from/the RegijirimChartaceum, for therein is nothing enrolled relating to theOrder (except one of the Exemplars of the FoundersStatutes, and a Catalogue of the firft Twenty-fiveKnights-Companions) before the 4th Year of KingHenry V. the Annals of the Order, until that time, be-ing entirely loft. It hath the fame Hiatus or Intervalsfrom 1 6 to 23 Hen. VI. from 7 to 10 of Edvi. 4. from4 to 7 Hen. VII. and from 10 to 14 Hen. 7. It alfo runsparallel therewith for the moll part, and that it wascompil’d by Dr. A/drydge, whilft he continu’d Regifter,is colleHed from fome Paffages in the Preface of all theSovereigns, ending with King Henry VIII. The Tran-fcription of this Book was finifli’d Anno 13 Hen.V ID.for fo far is written, as alfo the Appendix, with oneand the fame Hand 3 (in a middle-fiz’d Text) but Anno32 Hew. VIII. another Hand appears, which, with fo® eVariation, is continu’d to the End of 5 Edvi. VI. wheKthis Book break? off