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Notes: 4/7/48. Imperfect: leaf *1 (t.p.) mutilated, affecting title, etc.; wanting the blank. *2-[par.]2 badly frayed, affecting text; 2Y1 torn, affecting text; hole in 3C6, affecting text; 4M3 torn, affecting text etc.; margins trimmed, affecting some side-notes; many leaves poorly repaired; text generally frayed, stained and moldered. Formerly bound with a 10-leaf MS. entitled "A Note of such passages as haue beene omitted In, and I haue seene since the Printing of Stowes Suruay of London in 4⁰. 1618, and this Cronicle at large. 1631", which was removed from the volume in Feb. 1963 and is now cat. as Folger MS. V.b.275; old vellum has been removed from boards, inner faces of which show MS. off-set (from a deed); housed, with a modern reprint of the MS. additions, in a clamshell box. Provenance: Pickering sale, 1844 (Folger files); Sir Thomas Phillipps copy (1792-1872); Folger purchase from Robinson, cat. 77:138, 1948