• Wimsatt, Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch": Introduction

French. The conventions of the dominant fixed forms were all oriented to the French language, and a court audience in London in the 1350s hardly would have appreciated, or perhaps even understood, English verse. The French language probably predominated in

• The Poems of Laurence Minot 1333-1352: Introduction

both civic pageantry (the coronation of Henry VI in Paris and, on his return to England, the royal entry into London in 1432) as well as poetry (Calot's poem on the succession, posted in France and England) to maintain support

• John Wyclif (?), Of Weddid Men and Wifis and of Here Children Also

Press, 1988. ---. Lollards and Their Books. London: Hambledon Press, 1985. Kenny, Anthony, ed. Wyclif in His Times. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Lambert, Malcolm. Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from Bogomil to Hus. London: Blackwell, 1977; rpt. 1992. Matthew, F. D.,

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 4, How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter

overview (that includes a brief men­tion of this text), see Hanawalt, “Host, the Law, and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns.” 72 And drounke to be. Rate has strengthened this injunction; other texts only declare being drunk ofte (often)

• Mum and the Sothsegger: Introduction

the Redeless, is Midlands. Like most other Midlands poems it contains words not found, or found only rarely, in Chaucer's London vocabulary. The distinctive Midlands vocabulary can be observed in the many words for "man" that appear in the work:

• Hudson, Octavian: Introduction

fols. 98v–109r. [Northern version; base-text.] London, British Library MS Cotton Caligula A.ii (1446–60), fols. 22v–35r. [Southern version.] Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 2.38 (c. 1450), fols. 90r–101v. [Southern version.] San Marino, Huntington Library 14615. London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1504–06

• Erl of Tolous: Introduction

H. "A Critical Edition of The Earl of Toulouse." Index to Theses for Higher Degrees 20 (1969-70), 312. M. Phil., London University. Hulsmann, F. Erle of Toulous: Eine new Edition mit Einleitung und Glossar. Ph. D. dissertation, Munster. Cited in

• The Tournament of Tottenham and The Feast of Tottenham: Introduction

the two private letters were written in Northampton and that the business contacts mentioned in the accounts concern people from London and places like Banbury, Northampton, and the Gloucester area, a general Midland provenance is probable.4 The dating of the

• John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes

fashion for slumber-attire in Lydgate's day; see plate A (BL Royal MS 15.D.I) in Dorothy Hartley, Medieval Costume and Life (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931), p. 130. 114-18 On "colic's passion" as intestinal blockage, see On the Properties of Things,

• The Castle of Perseverance: Introduction

Eccles, Mark, ed. The Macro Plays. EETS o.s. 262. London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. 1–112. Furnivall, F. J., and A. W. Pollard, eds. The Macro Plays. EETS e.s. 91. London: Oxford University Press, 1904. Pp. 75–188. Happé, Peter, ed.

• Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Introduction

bishop’s warning a possible allusion to a London incident of 1467 in which a number of pyxes were stolen from a church for the value of their metal.50 In the fifteenth century, London was in close and regular contact with

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 15, The Offering of the Shepherds

from musical notation so would require an experienced church musician. A Gloria, simply represented by an incipit, from Chester in London, British Library, MS. Harley 2124 is reproduced in Rastall, Heaven Singing, pl. 7, though in the pageant a liturgical

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 22, The Temptation in the Wilderness

act, in contrast to the biblical account in which the devil merely leaves him. But in a thirteenth-century York Psalter (London, British Library, MS. Add. 54179, fol. 45), Christ is shown still on the roof of the temple, while the

• O recolende

while in his breste, And that he allone myht chaunge the Lawes off his Rewme and make newe" (Chronicles of London, p. 31). More likely Gower has in mind here that Henry (in contrast to Richard who, in the habit

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: In Erth It Es a Litill Thing

the fortune too much in it niggardly perfect goods that he has given to us as a reward Go To London Lickpenny Return To The Table of Contents In Erth It Es a Litill Thing, Notes IN ERTH IT ES

• George Ashby, Complaint of a Prisoner in the Fleet 1463: Introduction

Medieval Studies 37 (1993), 102-09. Rpt. in Scattergood, 1996. Pp. 266-74. ---. Politics and Poetry in the Fifteenth Century, 1399-1485. London: Blandford Press, 1971. Other Works Cited Jeffrey, David Lyle. A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature. Grand Rapids,

• Robin Hood and His Crew of Souldiers

TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition Robin Hood, Commander. Little John. William. Scadlocke. Soldiers. Messenger from the Sheriff. London, Printed for James Davis. 1661. [A shout without the Bower.]* [Enter Robin Hood, Little John, William, Scadlocke, c.] 1 5

• Item 37, Saint Margaret: Introduction

text of Ashmole 61, with variants from early prints.] Smith, Lucy Toulmin, ed. A Common-place Book of the Fifteenth Century. London: Trübner and Co., 1886. Pp. 107–18. [Prints the incomplete text of the Brome MS.] Reference Works NIMEV 2673 MWME

• The Storie of Asneth: Introduction

book trade, see Walter Schirmer, John Lydgate: A Study in the Culture of the XVth Century, trans. Ann E. Keep (London: Methuen Derek Pearsall, John Lydgate (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1970), pp. 73-78; and A. I. Doyle, ``English Books

• The Ploughman's Tale

(1956), 116-22. Hoccleve's note in HM 744 (fol. 36a) that "Ce feust faite a linstance de T. Marleburgh" - the London stationer Thomas Marleburgh being master of the guild of Limners and Textwriters in 1423 - indicates his poem was