‘By A.D. 1179 things began to settle down and Norman and Saxon to be amalgamated, and it was then, or perhaps rather later, _agreed_, in the High Courts, that in questions of title you should not go behind the above date. ‘Now this is not inconsistent with what you may have read in Selden, vol. ii. I have not read it, but I offer this solution--that it (_i.e._, Selden, vol. ii.) does not mean to speak of manorial law in respect of the High Court of Justice of the Realm, but of the intra-manorial regulations of court leets and court barons. ‘Yours sincerely, ‘JOHN SLATER.’ THE END. _Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, London._ [Illustration] FOOTNOTES: [1] From photos kindly lent by Mr. A. Harrison, of Theale. [2] See Appendix. [3] The property of the Earl of Fingall from his ancestors the Wollascots. [4] A complete copy of the Chartulary was made by me through the kindness of the Earl of Fingall. [5] A list of French Bishops will be found in ‘Gallia Christiana,’ or in ‘Neustria Pia.’ [6] This also contains a good glossary of Anglo-Saxon words. [7] Who has kindly revised this little volume. [8] Only procurable second-hand. Transcriber’s Notes: 1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently. 2. Italics are shown as _xxx_. 3. Bold print is shown as =xxx=. 4. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.