Excerpt from Catalogue of the Literature and History of the British Islands, Vol. 1 This very valuable and important volume was formerly in the Abbey of Tongerloo, but probably drifted into the library of that house long after its compilation. It may have been transcribed and compiled for John Belet (an Englishman) at Amiens and retained by him so long as he lived. At least Nos. 1-8 of the above list formed ahomogeneous whole. (the first five leaves are in a slightly later hand, and were added to make up for a loss of the original first four leaves of the ms.) Nos. 9-18 may have been annexed either by Beleth himself or by a later owner, but even in this division No. 17 indicates an English origin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.