this chronicle of his times, not to enlighten posterity or for the cause of truth, but as a means of indulging in safety his own interested or malicious feelings towards the individuals that pleased or offended him. So much for Bishop Burnet, whose authority must henceforth always be received _cum nota_." WM. L. NICHOLS. Lansdown Place, Bath. * * * * * A MONASTIC KITCHENER'S ACCOUNT. (From a volume of memoranda touching the monastery of Whalley, temp. Henry VIII., among the records of the Court of Augmentation.) "Dyv'se somes of money leid oute by me Jamys More, monke and kechyner to the late Abbot of Whalley, for and conc'nynge dyv'se caitts bought by the seid Jamys of dyv'se [p=]sons, as hereaft' dothe [p=]ticlerly appire by [p=]cells whiche came to thuse of the seid house, and spent yn the seid house from the last daye of December until the ---- daye of Marche then next folowynge yn the xxviij^{th} yere of the reign of Kynge Henry the viij^{th}, whiche somes of money the said Jamys asketh allowance. First payde to Edmunde Taillor Fischer for ---- salt salmons, spent in the seyd late abbott kechyn syns the tyme of his accompt xxv^s Itm. Payde to the seid Edmunde for xj freshe salmons, bought of the said Edmunde to thuse, &c. of the seid house, there spent by the seid tyme xxv^s Itm. Payde to Will'm Newbbet for fresh fische iij^s iij^d Itm. Payde for vj capons, bought at Fastyngeseven of dyv'se [p=]sons ij^s Itm. Payde for xxxv hennes, bought of dyv'se [p=]sons v^s x^d Itm. Payde for eggs, butter, chese, bought of dyv'se [p=]sons betwixt Cristmas and Fastyngsevyn, spent yn the seid house xxiiij^s Itm. Payde for mustersede v^s Itm. Bought of Will'm Fische viij potts hony-pric x^s Itm. Bought of Anthony Watson vij gallons hony ix^s iiij^d Itm. Bought of John Colthirst ij gallons hony ij^s iiij^d Itm. Payde to Richard Jackson for xvij^c sparlyngs ix^s viii^d Sum of the payments vj^{li} xviij^d (sic in orig.) Itm. The same Jamys askyth allowance of xiiij^s, whiche the seid late abbott dyd owe hym at the tyme of his last accompt, whiche endyd at Cristmas last past, as yt dothe appire by the accompt of the seid Jamys More. Itm. The late abbott of Whalley dyd owe unto the seid Jamys More, for a grey stagg that the seid late abbott dyd by of the same Jamys by the space of a yere syns x^s