162. _Matthew Paris's Historia Minor._--During the last few years I have
made occasional, but unsuccessful, inquiries after the _Historia Minor_
of Matthew Paris. It is quoted at some length by Archbishop Parker
(_Antiquit. Eccles. Brit._, ed. Hanov. 1605, p. 158.). It is also
referred to, apparently upon Parker's authority, by several divines of
the succeeding age; by one or more of whom (as well as by Watt) the MS.
is spoken of as deposited in the Royal Library at St. James's. The words
produced by Parker do not occur in Matthew Paris's _Major History_;
though the editor of the second edition of the larger work would appear
to have consulted the _Hist. Minor_, either in the _Biblioth. Reg._, or
the Cottonian Library, or else in the Library of Corpus Coll.,
Cambridge. Can any one gratify my curiosity by saying whether this MS.
is known to exist, and (if so) where?