These eleven _fasciculi_ actually form altogether one system, and some of them have their order of succession in the author's arrangement indicated; as, for instance, the _Verborum Præterita et Supina_, which is called the Fifth Book of the First Part; but others are deficient in this clue, so that if one classes them, it must be in one's own way. V. The treatise on the _Kinds of Nouns_, in one of the numerous editions of it at least, is designated _Primæ Partis Liber Primus_, which seems an inducement to yield it the foremost place in the series. But it will be presently observed that, although the collection in a complete state is susceptible of a consecutive arrangement, the pieces composing it did not, so far as we can tell, follow each other originally in strict order of time. Of the tract on the _Declensions of Nouns_, which stands second in order, Dibdin supplies us with a specimen:-- De ntō singu- =Anchise et Ve-= =Capis filius= =Qui fingit elegan-= lari prime =neris filius,= =es, ut An-= =tia carmina, a,= declina- =as, ut Aeneas= =chises.= =ut poeta.= tionis. Rectus as, es, a; simul am dat flexio prima. =Aeneæ= =Aeneæ= =ut huius= =huic= =musæ= =musæ= De gtō et dtō Ac dat dipthongum genitiuus sic que datiuus singularibus =hi poete= =o poete= et ntō et vetō Singularis, sic pluralis primus quoque quintus pluralibū. =familie et= =aulai pro aulae= =vt huius= =huic= =familias= =pictai pro pictæ.= Olim rectus in a, genito dedit as simul ai. =vt hic Judas, huius Jude, vel Juda= Ex Judas Juda aut Judæ dat pagina sacra =vt hic Adam. huius Adam. huic Adam, &c.= Barbara in am propria aut a recto non variantur. We must now pass to the treatise _De Syllabarum Quantitate_, which, in a chronological respect, ranks first among Whittinton's works, as there was an edition of it as early as 1513. This tripartite volume, 1. _On the Quantity of Syllables_; 2. _On Accent_; and 3. _On the Roman Magistrates_, is noteworthy on two accounts. The second portion embraces the earliest specimen in any English book of the poems of Horace, and the concluding section is a kind of rudimentary Lemprière. Subjoined is a sample of the lines upon accents, from Dibdin:-- "=Accentus tonus est per quē fit syllaba quevis Cognita: quādo acui debet, vel qū gravari Accentus triplex; fit acutus vel gravis, inde Est circūflexus: qui nunc fit rarus in vsu. Syllaba cum tendit sursum est accentus acutus Est gravis accentus sed syllaba pressa deorsum Fit circūflexus gravis in prima: sed in altum Attollit mediam, postrema gravis reciditque.="