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In considering the Taxes themselves I shall,
firstly, enumerate all the known editions,
chiefly from the laborious and accurate Panzer,
adding the letter M. to those which are des-
cribed by Marchand ; and then I shall oflfer
some remarks founded upon an examination of
the contents of some of them.
I*. Kegule Ordinationes et Constitutiones
Cancellarie Sanctissimi dni nostri domini Sixti
Divina Providentia Papa IIII. scripte et cor*
recte in Cancellaria Apostolica — date in crasti-
num assumptionis sue ad summi Apostolatus
apicem, videlicet die decima mensis Augusti
anni a Nativitate Dni mcccclxxi. In fine :
Lecte et publicate fuerunt supradicte regale in
Cancellaria apostolica die martis vicesima sep^
tima mensis Augusti anno dni mccoclxxi. Post
quae : Sequuntur Taxe Cancellarie Apostolice,
et primo de Expectativis Rubrica. Marchandi
who had an imperfect copy, adds, " in xxxi para-
graphs or chapters of different length." It is in
quarto, and the whole occupies but 9 leaves, or
18 pages, with the average of 35 lines in a
page. See a particular account of a perfect
copy in the possession of Lord Spencer in the
Rev. T. F. Dibdin's Bibliotbeca Spenceriana,
vol. iii. pp. 488, 9. Although without name of
