tminster to hir said monument; and have committed
ye care and chardg of ye said translation of hir body from
Peterborough to Westminster to ye reverend father in God our
right trusty and wel beloved servant ye Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, bearer hereof, to whom wee require you (or to such as
ye shall assigne) to deliver ye corps of our said deceased
mother, ye same being taken up in a decent and respectfull manner
as is fitting. And for that there is a pall now upon ye hearse
over hir grave which wilbe requisite to be used to cover hir said
body in ye removing thereof, which may perhapps be deemed as a
ffee that should belong to ye church. We have appointed ye said
reverend father to pay you a reasonable redemption for ye same,
which being done by him wee require you that he may have ye pall
to be used for ye purpose aforesaid. Given under our signet at
our Honor of Hampton Court ye eight and twentieth day of
September in ye tenth yeare of our reigne of England, France and
Ireland, and of Scotland ye six and fortieth. To our trusty and
welbeloved ye Dean and Chapter of our Cathedrall Church of
Peterborough, and in theire absence to ye right reverend father
in God ye Bishop of Peterborough and to such of ye Prebends or
other officers of that church as shalbe found being there."

[19] This ancient record is said to have been written about the
year 1217, by a monk named Hugh Candidus. It is a MS. account of
the History of the Abbey from its foundation. Dean Patrick gives
the following account of its singular preservation:--"One book
indeed, and but one, still remains, which was happily redeemed
from the fire by the then precentor of the church, Mr. Humfrey
Austin, who knowing the great value of it, first hid it, in
February, 1642, under a seat in the quire: and when it was found
by a soldier on the twenty-second of April, 1643 (when all the
seats were pulled down), rescued it again by the offer of ten
shillings, 'for that old latin bible' as he called it, and about
which he pretended to enquire. The name of the bible by the help
of the ten shillings, preserved this precious treasure from the
flames, whither it was going, as Mr. Austin hath left a record in
the beginning of the book; with a copy of the soldier's