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1921 PARLIAMENT OF LINCOLN OF 1316 55 But on this hypothesis the king did not make his offer to Lancaster till four days after he had attained what he described as his special object, the grant of men and money and the fixing of a date for a new effort against Bruce. The question therefore arises, what did William of Airmyn intend his readers to understand by Carniprivium and the Tuesday before it ? The Lenten fast might be reckoned either from the Sunday before or the Sunday after Ash Wednesday. In some parts of France the later of these days, Quadragesima, or the first Sunday in Lent, was distinguished as Carniprivium veins, and Quinquagesima, the Sunday preceding Ash Wednesday, was Carniprivium novum, so that the first week of Lent was inter duo Carniprivia. Mas Latrie * gives an example from the accounts of the treasurers of Savoy in 1301, where an event which took place on Quinquagesima Sunday is described as occurring ' die dominica sequenti, qua fuit Carnisprivium Tim is very close in date to 1316, and Airmyn's words may be taken to mean the Tuesday preceding Quinquagesima, 17 February. This conclusion is supported by an examination of the original roll in the Public Record Office. Two entries have to be taken into consideration. The first occurs on mem- brane 1, and its position in the original, where the account runs straight on without any division into paragraphs, makes it clear that this, at any rate, refers to 17 February. It runs as follows : Die Martis sequente in presencia domini Regis et prelatorum ac procerum predictorum, dominus episcopus Norwicensis de mandato Regis recitauit premissa et adiecit quod dominus Rex ordinaciones per prelatos et proceres predictos prius factas et per ipsum acceptatas et perambula- ciones foreste tempore domini Edwardi genitoris sui factas voluit in omnibus observari, salvis Regi rationibus suis contra perambulaciones illas ; et inde facte fuerunt litere et brevia ut in quodam alio rotulo continetur ; et locutus fuit prefatus episcopus aliqua ex parte Regis comiti Lancastrie que in quodam alio rotulo continentur. The second entry occupies the whole of membrane 2, which is presumably the alius rotulus referred to above : Die Martis proxima ante Carniprivium, in parliamento domini Regis Edwardi filii regis Edwardi, anno regni sui nono, apud Lincolniam, in presencia domini Regis et prelatorum ac procerum et aliorum pro parliamento illo ibidem existencium, dominus Iohannes Norwicensis episcopus de mandato domini Regis recitavit causam quare dominus rex parliamentum illud fecerat summoneri et alia negocia dominum Regem tangencia, ut in alio rotulo continetur. Et ulterius locutus fuit Thome Sir John Ros and the younger Despenser. This occurred ' die Dominica proxima ante Carniprivium in presencia domini Regis et in parliamento presenti ' (Rot. Pari. i. 352), i. e. on 15 February or 22 February according to the view preferred, 1 Trbsor de Chronologie, p. 630.