After advancing so far towards the solution of the mystery, I was here landed in a difficulty which I was unable to solve. But Mr. H. Bradley, by a happy inspiration, hit upon the idea that the text might have suffered dislocation; and was soon in a position to prove that no less than six leaves of the MS. must have been out of place, to the great detriment of the sense and confusion of the argument. He very happily restored the right order, and most obligingly communicated to me the result. I at once cancelled the latter part of the treatise (from p. 113 to the end), and reprinted this portion in the right order, according to the sense. With this correction, the unmeaning THSKNVI is resolved into the two words THIN USK, i.e. 'thine Usk'; a result the more remarkable because Mr. Bradley had _previously_ hit upon Usk as being the probable author. For the autobiographical details exactly coincide, in every particular, with all that is known of the career of Thomas Usk, according to Walsingham, the Rolls of Parliament, and the continuation of Higden's Polychronicon by John Malverne (ed. Lumby, vol. ix. pp. 45-6, 134, 150, 169); cf. Lingard, ed. 1874, iii. 163-7. The date of the composition of this piece can now be determined without much error. Usk was executed on March 4, 1388, and we find him referring to past events that happened towards the end of 1384 or later. The most likely date is about 1387. I here append an exact account of the order of the text _as it appears in Thynne_; every break in the text being denoted, in the present volume, by a dark asterisk. Thynne's text is in a correct order from p. 1 to p. 118, l. 56:--any mouable tyme there (Th. fol. 354, col. 2, l. 11)[5]. (1) Next comes, in Thynne, the passage beginning at p. 135, l. 94:--Fole, haue I not seyd--and ending at p. 143, l. 46:--syth god is the greatest loue and the (Th. fol. 356, back, col. 1, l. 5). (2) Next, in Thynne, the passage beginning at p. 131, l. 97:--ne ought to loke thynges with resonnyng--and ending at p. 132, l. 161, at the end of a chapter (Th. fol. 356, back, col. 2, last line). (3) Next, in Thynne, the passage beginning at p. 124, l. 8:--Now trewly, lady--and ending at p. 128, at the end of the chapter (Th. fol. 357, last line). (4) Next, in Thynne, the passage beginning at p. 132, new chapter:--Uery trouth (quod she)--and ending at p. 135, l. 94:--that shal bringe out frute that (Th. fol. 358, back, col. 1, l. 25). (5) Next, in Thynne, the passage beginning at p. 118, l. 56:--is nothyng preterit ne passed--and ending at p. 124, l. 7:--euer to onbyde (Th. fol. 360, col. 1, l. 24). (6) Next, in Thynne, the passage beginning at p. 128, new chapter:--Nowe, lady (quod I) that tree to set--and ending at p. 131, l. 97:--vse ye (Th. fol. 360, back, col. 2, l. 9). (7) Lastly, the text reverts to the true order, at p. 143, l. 46, with the words:--greatest wisdom (Th. fol. 360, back, col. 2, l. 9. as before). See The Athenæum, no. 3615, Feb. 6, 1897.