• The Bird with Four Feathers: Introduction

15a-16b. London, c. 1475. [Apparently given to Dartford Priory by William Baron.] Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.21, fols. 34a-37b. London, c. 1475. [Associated with Shirleian booktrade of St. Bartholomew's Close.] London, British Library MS Harley 1706, fols. 16a-17a. London, c.

• Stanzaic Guy of Warwick: Introduction

single text, Julius Zupitza, The Romance of Guy of Warwick: The Second or Fifteenth-Century Version, EETS e.s. 25-26 (London: Trübner, 1875-76).] London, British Library, Sloane MS 1044 (single-folio fragment). [Fourteenth century; couplets. Edited by Julius Zupitza, "Zur Literaturgeschichte des Guy

• Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham: Introduction

was killed by the English in a naval battle at Sandwich in 1217. In The Lost Literature of Medieval England (London: Methuen, 1970), R. M. Wilson observes that the stories of Eustache were well-known in England (p. 117). Among other

• Ywain and Gawain: Introduction

ed. Ywain and Gawain, Sir Percyvell of Gales, The Anturs of Arther. London: J. M. Dent, 1992. [Everyman edition.] Ritson, Joseph, ed. Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës. Vol. 1. London: W. Nicol, 1802. Pp. 1-169. Rpt. Edinburgh: Goldsmid, 1884. Schleich, Gustav,

• Lydgate, Disguising at London

note) Such a one; like Let; she wishes Go To Henry VI’s Triumphal Entry into London Lydgate, Disguising at London JOHN LYDGATE, DISGUISING AT LONDON: EXPLANATORY NOTES ABBREVIATIONS: BD: Chaucer, Book of the Duchess; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MP: Minor

• Item 33, Stimulus Consciencie Minor: Introduction

French translation has been printed in a modern edition; see Michler, Le Somme Abregiet de Théologie. 2 Pery’s copy was London, British Library MS Additional 10053, witnessed by the colophon to Stimulus Consciencie Minor in that manuscript. 3 For a

• Richard Maidstone, Concordia: Appendix 2

Nones, all the great lords who were about the city, the mayor, aldermen, and commons of London, all rode out to the Tower of London, where the prince was staying, there before the Tower to attend upon the prince's entry.

• The Morall Fabillis: Introduction

Morall Fab[les] of Esope, the Phrygian. Edinburgh: Andro Hart, 1621. The Smith Edition The Fabulous Tales of Esope the Phrygian. London: Richard Smith, 1577. Manuscripts British Library, Harley 3865, 75 leaves. Published in Smith, ed. Poems. Vol. 2. Facsimilie Editions

• Robin Hood and Little John: Introduction

TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition he later found a copy printed by W. Onley in London in 1680-85 (V, p. 297); this text is followed here. As with Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar and The Jolly Pinder

• Hudson, Sir Tryamour: Introduction

fragment, now missing). Percy Folio MS (London, British Library MS Addit. 27879) (c. 1650), pp. 210–32. Syr Tryamour. London: R. Pynson, n.d. [1503?]. [Only fragments of this print (STC 24302.5) survive.] Syr Tryamour. London: Wynkyn de Worde, n.d. [c. 1530].

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 22a, The Marriage in Cana

Scriveners’ Play”; Towneley: Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley, eds., The Towneley Plays. The base text for this edition is London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290, called the “Register” in the York civic records and here identified by the abbreviation

• Item 4, How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter: Introduction

for the Young Now First Done into Modern English from the Texts of Dr. F. J. Furnivall. London: Ballantyne Press, 1908. Rpt. London: Chatto and Windus, 1923. Pp. 31–42. Reference Works NIMEV 1882. See also 671 MWME 9.22.20.2968, 3354–55 See

• James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair: Introduction

Poets. London: Edward Arnold, 1970. Pp. 53-57. [Lines 1058-1162.] Lawson, Alexander, ed. The Kingis Quair and The Quare of Jelusy. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1910. Pp. 3-101. McDiarmid, Matthew P., ed. The Kingis Quair of James Stewart. London: Heinemann,

• Little John A Begging

is one dead wil give us cheese and bread, And it may be one single peny.' "We have brethren in London," another he said, "So have we in Coventry, In Barwick and Dover, and all the world over, But nere

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Introduction

"lady" is also capitalized. Select Bibliography Manuscripts Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 118. London, British Library MS Arundel 396. London, British Library MS Arundel 168. London, British Library MS Arundel 20. Edition The Life of St. Katharine of Alexandria.

• Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune: Introduction

The "Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune" (IMEV 860) survives in a number of manuscripts derived from John Shirley, a London scribe of the middle of the fifteenth century who is responsible for preserving unique copies of minor works of

• Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction

EETS o.s. 151. London: Kegan Paul, 1917. [Standard edition with Notes and Glossary.] Lo, He That Can Be Cristes Clerc (MS Cotton Vespasian) RHR, pp. 152-57. Wright, Thomas. Political Poems and Songs. Rolls Series 14.1. 2 vols. London: Longman, Green,

• Robin Hood and the Monk: Introduction

eds. Rymes of Robin Hood. London: Heinemann, 1976. Pp. 113-22. Gutch, J. M., ed. A Lytelle Gest of Robin Hood with other Auncient and Modern Ballads and Songs Relating to the Celebrated Yeoman. 2 vols. London: Longman, 1847. Vol. II,

• Item 32, Maidstone’s Seven Penitential Psalms: Introduction

Latin account of the concord between Richard II and the city of London, taking a distinctly royalist view of the settlement that opened the coffers of the wealthy London merchants for forced loans to Richard’s household.9 Maidstone died in 1396

• Plowman Writings: Introduction

London: Camden Society, 1839. [Pp. 149-52. Edition of Song of the Husbandman with modern English translation at the bottom of the page.] God Spede the Plough (Lansdowne MS) Skeat, W. W., ed. Pierce the Ploughmans Crede. EETS o.s. 30.