[204] Chambre ap. Wharton, tom. i. p. 766.
[205] Godwin Cat. of Bish. 525.
[206] Chambre ap. Wharton, tom. i. p. 766.
[207] It is marked A, ii. 16, and described in the old MS. catalogue as De manus Bedæ, ii. fol. Baptizatus.
[208] The attractive words "Est vetus Liber" often occur.
[209] From a volume of Thomas Aquinas, the following is transcribed: "Lib. Sti. Cuthberti de Dunelm, ex procuratione fratis Roberti de Graystane quem qui aliena verit maledictionem Sanctorum Mariæ, Oswaldi, Cuthberti et Benedicti incurrat." See Surtee publications, vol. i. p. 35, where other instances are given.
[210] Surtee publ. vol. i. p. 85.
[211] He wrote The Chronicle of Durham Monastery in 1130.
[212] His book on the Rights and Privileges of Durham Church is in the Cottonian Library, marked Vitellius, A, 9.
[213] Lawrence was elected prior in 1149, "a man of singular prudence and learning, as the many books he writ manifest." Dugdale's Monast. vol. 1. p. 230.