Some gentleman connected with the cathedral library of Lincoln may possibly
be able to give me some information respecting a MS. copy of the _Historia
Ecclesiastica_ of Beda in my possession, and of which the following
circumstances are therein apparent:--It is plainly a MS. of great
antiquity, on paper, and in folio. On a fly-leaf it has an inscription,
apparently of contemporaneous date, and which is repeated in a more modern
hand on the next page with additions, as follows:
"Hunc librum legavit Will[=m]s Dadyngton qu^odam Vicarius de Barton sup
humbre ecclie Lincoln ut e[=e]t sub custodia Vicecancellarii."