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This discussion is an appendix to my earlier article, "Sir John Harington's A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to the yeare 1608: Composition and Text," Studies in Bibliography, 30 (1977), 145-161, and my edition of the Supplie (Washington, D.C.: Studia Humanitatis, 1979), pp. 1-7.

The notice of this manuscript I owe to Peter Beal of the University of Leeds. This small acknowledgment cannot repay him fully for his many assistances to me in the course of his own research on the recently published Index to Literary Manuscripts.

A brief account of this antiquarian is given in Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, ed. L. G. Pine, 4th ed. (1958), p. 467. The manuscript was first described in an earlier catalogue, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (London, 1697), no. 1640.1, misprinted 1340.1.