• CP.G.2

identify the surname 'Sklat'. Participant: John Sampson [Samson] Role: witness Details: male; 50 Location: Farnley (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Farnley (Farneley) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: George Simpson [Symson] Role: witness Details: male; clerk Employment: Chaplain Participant: John Idle [Ydille] Role: witness Details:

• CP.G.6

proctor Details: male Employment: Notary Public Participant: Thomas Boothroyd [Boterode] Role: witness Details: male Location: Bilton (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Bilton (Byrtton) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: John Marshall [Marshall] Role: witness Details: male Location: Leeds (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Leeds (Ledys) : ecclesiastical parish

• CP.F.308

undefined Participant: RobertRoper [Raper] Role: witness Details: male; 50 Location: Pickhill (YorkshireNorthRiding) Place(s): Pickhill (Pikhall, Pykhall) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: John Roper [Raper] Role: witness Details: male; 26; clerk Employment: chaplain, vicar of Pickhill Location: Pickhill (YorkshireNorthRiding) Place(s): Pickhill (Pikhall,

• CP.F.352

193 Court:undefined Case:Testamentary () Details:1 Pieces; No deposition; No libel; No sentence Outcome: Date: 1400 — 1499 People & Places Participant: EdwardProud [Proude] Role: plaintiff Details: male Participant: Role: defendant Details: undefined; executor of John Fence Notes: No name given

• CP.F.368

1499 People & Places Participant: William Role: plaintiff Details: male; clerk Employment: rector of Harewood Notes: No surname given. Participant: John Role: defendant Details: male; clerk Employment: vicar of Harewood Notes: No surname given Location: Harewood (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Harewood (Harwod)

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Manuscript not consulted. Book written for John Dedwood of Chester c. 1470 (see Macaulay 1899-1902, p. clxiii). Dedwood's name and device, a piece of the trunk of a dead tree, appear on f. 1. John Dedwood is listed as Sheriff

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

517 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A late fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial with an explanation of the Apostle's Creed in English. ff. 1r-191r John Mirk Festial (IPMEP 734 ) 'The helpe and the grace of almyȝty

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

by Johannes Mirkus, John Mirk edited from Bodl. MS. Gough Eccl. Top. 4, with variant readings from other MSS , EETS, es, 96, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner & Co. Fletcher, A. J. 1987. ‘ John Mirk and

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

a schort tretys the wich erle renate sone wrote to the emperor'. 'In old tyme hytt was'. Imperfect. ff. 37r-52r John Russell Boke of Kervyng & Nortur (IMEV 1514 ) 'In nomine patris god kepe me Et filii for charitie

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

description of the contents of this manuscript can be found in McIntosh and Wakelin (19 82, pp. 443-445). ff. 3r-6v John Mirk Festial: Sermon for Christmas Day 'As this day holy church syngeth & redyth & makyth melody'. ' &

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

vol. 1, pp. 164-165). A manuscript containing John Mirk's Festial and saints' lives produced in the late fifteenth century (Ker 1992, p. 351). Wakelin suggests 'just after 1500' (1967, p. 110). ff. 1r-171v John Mirk Festial (IPMEP 734 ) 'Incipit

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England Manchester John Rylands University Library Eng. 90 Ashburnham 136 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 373 286, LP 4218 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 234). A late fourteenth/early fifteenth century (Ker 1983, p.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

E.' and 'J. Th'. English Latin ff. 30r-31v John Lydgate Stans puer ad mensam (IMEV 2233 ) 'Mi dere child first thisylue'. 'put al defaute apon iohn lidgate'. English ff. 31v-32r John Lydgate Prayer of the Cross (IMEV 3845 )

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

sixteenth-century court hand is: ' Richard Baylies / Esq. Governour of Graston / when I writt / this Booke. / John Maundevile K. of Lyes.' Other such scribbles are on ff. 117 and 118, 'Richardus' in another hand on f.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

& anglice'. 'Absintheum amarum deu maners gallice aoyne anglice weremod'. Late fourteenth-century alphabet of herbs. Latin English French ff. 13r-57r John Lelamoure, of Hereford Translation of Aemilius Macer's De virtutibus herbarum 'Ache is hote'. 'He prayeth with all his hart

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England Manchester John Rylands University Library Eng. 50 s. xiv ex English Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 405 304, LP 519 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 238). A late fifteenth-century manuscript (Ker 1983, p. 401) containing the

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Latin in ?two later hands. Good. Unknown F. 2r: ' W. Sancroft ' written on top fore edge. F. 107r: John Robinson wrote 'Iohannes Robinsonus me possidet' in a c. sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. F. 107r: various inscriptions by Richard Horne -

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

E. 1935. ‘ Malory ’ s Morte Darthur in the Light of a Recent Discovery ’ , Bulletin of the John Rylands Library , 69, 438-475. Vinaver, E., ed, 1967. Malory ‘ s Le Morte D ’ arthur , Oxford:

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004. Baugh, N. S., ed, 1956. A Worcestershire Miscellany, Compiled by John Northwood, c. 1400, edited from British Museum MS Add. 37,787 , Philadelphia: prvt prt. Conlee, J. W, ed. 1991.