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of the Rices required, and the Meaning of feveralTerms therein contained 3 but the Printing of thofeNotes, was not pradicable, within the Time limitedfor the Publication of this Eflay. However, to ex-preß in ferne Degree, my moft grateful,' and dutifulAcknowledgement to the Earl Marfhal, whofe Fees areexprefled in this Ceremonial, I cannot omit to remark,that thefe Fees do not depend upon the Authority ofthis Formulary, but are grounded upon an immemo-rial Ufige, and as fuch, confirmed expreßly by theStatute-Law 1 of this Realm, and frequently reeited inthe u Records, and by our * Hiftorians.

Tliefe are the Fads, which I have at prefent thoughtneceflary to produce j and the Reader may be affured,they have been faithfully cited, and that due Care hathbeen ufed, not to mifreprefent the Senfe, or Defigii oEthe Authors, or Inftruments, from which they weretaken: But as to the Obfervations, which have beenoccafionally made upon thofe Fads, though it is ho-ped, notwithftanding the fiiort Time, wherein this im-perfed Scheme of an Hiftory hath been drawn up, Ihave not committed any material, and I am fure, can-not be charged with any w;lful Miftake, in deducing

t St«t. Weflxn. 2. c. 42-

« See Piinn. on^th Inj}, p. 74. /iml at the Cnronatinn of Queen Alianor thered Book oj the Exchcquer injorms tts, that Gilbert Earl oj Strigul, then Mar «fl. >al, Recepit autem de quolibet Barone fado milit« a Rege, & quolibefcComite ea die Palfridum cum fella.

x See the Claim in Mat. Paris, ander 35 He«. 3. i> 830.

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