The Peck and Dugdale versions are markedly different:  Peck said he used ‘a fair old MS’ superior to Dugdale’s, but was secretive;  Colvin traced it to Registrum Premonstratense publ. Gasquet (Belvoir Castle Additional MS 2) which has an early 16th century transcript of the Chronicle on fol. 51-4.  Saltman calls this MS ‘P’, and the one he transcribed ‘D’.  P is not a copy of D.  P resembles Fragments 1, 2 and 3 and is more intelligible than D;  it abbreviates details of the Grendon descent at the beginning of Chapter 7.  P has the recall of Prior Henry, chapters 10-12 (not in D), the detail that the Welbeck foundation lasted 5 years, and an account of the possessions of Nicholas son of William Child;  P also shows the Musca chapter divisions.
Saltman used Fragments 1, 2, 3 for chapters 5-8, the end of chapter 12 and chapter 13, and P for the rest, giving D variants in footnotes (SALTMAN).
 
Hope’s translation is quoted in part in PAGE.
 
Contents: list of abbots, transcript of their deeds, then the Chronicle begins of fol. 170 (KERRY).  The first 16 abbots are recorded in the same hand, during the rule of John Stanley, not John Spondon as Cox says (C41);  later abbots are recorded in a later hand.
 
Author:  Dale Abbey canon Thomas-de Musca (Muskham near Newark) (see Thomas de Musca).
Time-span:  about 60 years, ending about 50 years before de Musca’s connection with Dale Abbey.
 
Sources:          *Lady Matilda de Salicosa Mara.
Humfrid, dead but still remembered (WARD).
            *Lady Matilda de Salicosa Mara.
Humphrey, tenant of the Gomme and servant of the Augustinian Canons. Must have survived into 1240s or later, because his information was probably not first hand.  Source of the hermit's vision, building of 2nd oratory, canons from Calke.
William de Hagnaby, prior of Dale when Thomas joined.
? Bertram de Grendon:  genealogy of the Grendon family.
Canons:  outlaw's vision.
Abbey archives: legal details, boundaries etc. (CLARK).
 
Passed into the hands of Sir Anchitell Gray of Risley, who passed it to the Cottonian Library about 1700.  He died 8 Jul 1702 (C43).
 
The forest of Depedale no longer existed when the Chronicle was written (CLARK).
The chronicle, part 2
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