As in previous volumes {MO, Appendix XII, pp. 709–10; RO, 1, Appendix 1, pp. 321–2) an attempt has been made to catalogue the regulars in episcopal orders during the period. Besides those appointed to English and Welsh dioceses, note has been taken of insular and Irish sees, and those with foreign or in partibus titles who worked in England as suffragans, but the numbers in these latter classes cannot be regarded as complete. In general, the task of compilation is more difficult for these centuries owing to the absence of monastic chroniclers and annalists who faithfully recorded the advancement of monks and canons in earlier times. In compiling the list of Friars Preachers, I have been greatly helped by a paper kindly sent by the Rev. Fr T. W. Gumbley, O.P., which reproduced with a few additions that published by him in Analecta Historica Ordinis Praedicatorum, 1925–6. For the Minors I am equally indebted to the late A. G. Little, who sent me a list compiled by himself shortly before his death. No scholar has hitherto examined the Carmelites and Austin friars with equal care, and it is probable that additions could be made to their totals, especially for the Irish and titular sees.