if) on Saturday, I intreat you, if it please you, to doe me that favour; or rather, because I fear if it bee on Saturday you will bee going on Munday, defer your journey tyl Munday, and stay to goe on Saturday. Wee shall spend the tyme in reading, walking, or somewhat else .that will beguile it." 
   How like the captivating picture which Cicero draws of Scipio and Lselius in their academic retreat: " Quid ego de studiis dicam, cognoscendi semper aliquid, atque discendi, in quibus remoti ab oculis populi omne otiosum teinpus contrivimus"! And then in a postscript:—
   "If you take so much paynes as to visit your affectionate cosen, pray bring your history of William Thorne, and I will shew you an old manuscript, sometyme of the same abbeys, conteyning many prety miscellaneas, writ about Ed. 3 hys tyme, out of which perhaps Thorn took some part of hys History."
   The two interesting facsimiles which accompany this paper are, one from Sir Edward's own muniments, and the other from those of Cobham.
   The former is a grant by Godwin (probably the Earl of Kent) to Leofwine the Red, of certain swine-pastures at Swidraedingden (which is, no doubt, Surrenden), at a fixed rent, which Leofsunu appears to have held on the same terms. With reference to this charter, my late lamented friend J. M. Kemble, in a letter to me, writes as follows :—-
   " Leofsunu was no doubt Leofwine's father, or brother, or other near relation. Leofwine the Red was not Earl Godwine's son, who had estates at Horton; both are mentioned, as well as Leofsunu, in a charter of Grodwine, containing marriage settlements on the espousals of his sister with Brihtric (Codex Dipl. AEnri Saxonici, No. 732), to which document Sired and AElfsige  cild are parties. The date of the said Charter is about 1016-1020."
   Our charter is of about the same date.¹ The lands to
   ¹ Livingus, alias Leovingus, the principal witness, was Archbishop (the twenty-eighth) from 1013 to 1030.