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making atrenooxu efforts to sobstaniiate a ri^it of iriBtatioii and aiipervision at
Ffaucardrn. The diflimhy encooiEtered in mat-i«g good tluB claim aeems
midoiibted eridoice that it was new. and widioat much tangible evidence to
rappcft it.* Add to tiiia* that there is nodiing in the transompt itself at all
mcoDsifftent with what we fihoald expect there, neither is there, as we shall
see, anj trace of an effiiii to acquire or Timficate anjthing wlubh cannot be
historicallj ascertained to be the certain propertj and pnrilege of our
Monasterj. Indeed, we are able to AeA the greater part ci the transompt
with original Chartos of eariio' date, and in aD points the transompt is foond
to be abeolotely ccnrect.
