ses only of a single "quaternion," were inserted in
the volumes already existing. An examination of the structure of books
of this period would confirm this view, and show that their apparent
clumsiness is to be explained by the facility it was then the custom to
afford for the interpolation or extraction of "sheets," by a contrivance
somewhat resembling that of the present day for temporarily fixing loose
papers in a cover, and known as the "patent leaf-holder."

The second document is a list of certain books, belonging to the
monastery of Anglesey, early in the fourteenth century, allotted out to
the canons of the house for the purpose of custody, or, perhaps, of study
or devotion.

"Isti libri liberati sunt canonicis die ... anno regni Regis Edwardi
septimo"[3] (7 Edw. II. A.D. 1314.)
Penes Dominum Priorem; Parabelae Salomonis; Psalterium cum ...
Penes Dominum J. de Bodek.; Epistolae Pauli...; Quaedam notulae super
psalter et liber miraculorum ... Mariae cum miraculis sanctorum.
Penes Sub-priorem; Liber vitae Sancti Thomae Martiris.
Penes E. de Ely; Quartus liber sententiarum cum sermo...; Liber
Reymundi; Liber de vitiis et virtutibus et pastorale.
Penes R. Pichard; Liber Alquini; Liber Johannis de Tyrington cum
Catone et aliis.
Penes Henrici Muchet; Liber de vita Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae et
remediarum (?)
Penes Walteri de Yilwilden; Liber S ... ligatus in panno ymnaro
glosatus cum constitutionibus; Belet ligatus et vita sanctorum.
Penes Ricardi de Queye; Omeliae Gregorii (?) super Evangelistos ligatae
in nigro corio.
In commune biblia; Decreta; Decretales; Prima pars moralium Job; Liber
de abusionibus.
Liber justitiae; penes Magistrum Adam de Wilburham.
Penes Walteri de Wyth; Liber Innocentii super sacramenta cum Belet et
introductione in uno volumine.
Item penes Sup-priorem; Psalterium glosatum duod fuit in custodia
Magistri Henrice de Melreth.
Item aliud psalterium glosatum inpignoratum penes Isabellam Siccadona.

Several of these descriptions are highly curious; particularly the last
item, which describes one of the "glossed" psalters as being "_in
pawn_," a fact which, in itself, tells a history of the then condition
of the house.

The first document, taken in connection with that referred to by Mr.
Hunter would seem to establish the existence of a system of
interchanging the l