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Gryphea Gigantaa. Marlstone, escarpments of Cotswolds.

Machullochi, Incurva, Obliquata. Belemnite bed of Lias.

Hippopodium Ponderosum. Belemnite bed of Lias.

Insects. Beautiful impressions of wings and other parts are found in the Oolite Slates, Marlstone, and lower beds of Lias.

Mactro Gibbosa. Inferior Oolite of Cotswolds.

Modiola, four species. Inferior Oolite of Cotswolds.

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Pinna Mettalloides, Tetrogona. Inferior Oolite, Cotswold Hills.

Offinis. Marlstone.

Plagiostoma Cordiformis. Slates of Cotswolds.

Leviusculum. Inferior Oolite.

Biplicata. Roe Stone.

Giganteum. Blue Lias.

Pleurotomaria Anglica. Marlstone and Lower beds of Blue Lias.

Saurians. Ichthiosaurus, Plesiosaurus.

Blue Lias and Strata above.

Sauroid Fish and Scales. Blue Lias and Strata above.

Trigonia Impressa. Slates of Cotswold.

- Costata, Clavalota, Striata. Trigonia Grit, inferior Oolite. Terrebratula. Nearly twenty species. Inferior Oolite.

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APPENDIX

OF

DOCUMENTS AND INSCRIPTIONS.

APPENDIX.

No. I.-LETTER FROM CLEMENT ABBOT OF EVESHAM, TO
CROMWELL LORD PRIVY SEAL.-CIRC. A.D. 1538.

Miscellaneous Letters, temp. Henry VIII; Series ii. vol. x. In Augmentation Office. To the Right Hoñable & my singler good Lorde my Lord Pryvye Seale. RIGHT Honorable and my moste singuler good Lorde, after my most humblie dutye and most entier thanks for all your goodness showyd unto me. Theis be most instantly to desire yow to contynewe my good Lord as long as I do not des've the contrary, and yf I doo then I am contentyde to be ordred accordyng to my demerits. So it is my good Lorde that abowt ij yeres passide a Gentylman one of the Kyng's servandis called Mr. Wev' [Wever] brought the Kyng's gracs Lres of instance unto me for certeyn pasturs called Powdon, at whych time in cosideracon that hit pleasid you to accept a lytle fee of or Howse, I declaryd unto you by my frynds Doctor Leigheton & Doctor Gwent that I colde in no wise spare the seyd Pasturs, for hit is the chyff mayntennce of or Howsholde as well for the vision of or beoffs [beeves] as mutton & other necessaries, and besowght yor advice & Councell for the contentacyon of the seyde Gentylman; and notw'standing that I did (accordyng to your advice) make answere to or Sov'ayn Lorde's Lres that the pastures was such that I could in no wise spare, wherewt the Kyng's Hyghnes was ryght well contentyd, but ev' sens Mr Wev' hath boron me great grudge and hath imagenyd many weys to have me deposed, and he hath seyd (as by the report of his s'vands which was spokyn to my face) that he had auctie to put me downe and to make whom he wolde Abbott here, as hit will more at large appere in a byll made of his Demeanure, which this berer can showe your Lordship; and as I am enformed he doth not cease folowyng his malice towarde me. Wherefore I beseche yow to cotynewe my good Lorde, so that I be not this wrongfully trowbled nor vexid by occasion of the seid Gentilmä: and as conc'nyng the Priorye of Alcettur3 I will forme ev'y thyng accordyng as I dide at large declare unto Master Richarde Cromwell at his late beyng here; besechyng yor honor to accept this my rude Lre. and to delyv' me from the malicyous suyts & vexac'ons wch the said Gentylman doth dayly Imagyu agenst me onely be

1 Still known by this name, and situate in the parish of Church Honeybourne. The "lytle fee" of Bribery, accepted even by the "vycar generall of the hole church of England!"

3 Alcester Priory, Warwickshire, subordinate to Evesham Abbey.

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