13 April

WednesdayThursday 13th. I always attend Chapel every morn’g

at ½-past 8. as that frees me for the rest of the day.

There is service again at 4, but appearance once a day

is considered sufficient. Continued the Laws. Received

a letter from Mr Petrie. He is in some doubt about a MS.

(Digby No. 140.) which I have been able to elucidate. This

is an origl. work on the archb’ps of York from Paulinus

to Thurstin, where it ends. A continuation afterwards brought

it down to Abp. ^de la Souche in 1373. & both are printed in

Twysden, by whom, on the authority of Bale, the entire

work is ascribed to Thos. Stubbes. The MS. Digby ^however is itself

much earlier than Stubbes’s time. In the printed Preface,

the words magistri Will. la Souche #are substituted for Thurstini,

Tanner (art. Stubbes) had already suggested Stubbes

to have only continued the MS. ####. A second continuation

brought the work down to Wolsey, a copy of which is in

MS. Barlow No. 27. which I looked at, & which retains

the word Thurstini in the Preface. Tanner refers

to three other MSS. q. v. – Dined in Hall for ^the second

time, & got on a little better. ^Read Livy in Ev’g.

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