'Abbreviatio Cartularii prioratus de Horton in com. Kent'. The original register was compiled by James Holbech, prior of Horton temp. Henry VI (see fols. 3, 5), and was in 1627 in the possession of George Rooke, when an abridged transcript was made of it for Sir Edward Dering by Henry Hutton of Durham. Hutton's abstract was in the Dering library at Sarrenden, Kent, in 1739, when the present volume was copied from it by the rev. Samuel Pegge the elder (see fols. 1-3, 57): it is Now MS. Stowe 924 in the British Museum, and the original register is no. 935 in the same collection, although much mutilated.

The deeds contained in this abstract, some of which are very materially abridged, are numbered 1-246, but the disappearance of a leaf of the original has caused the loss of six deeds after no. 27. They are followed, at fol. 51, by excerpts from pp. 181-255 of the original register, including (fol. 57) an ecclesiastical taxation of Canterbury diocese.