• Norfolk (county name)

name) County Northamptonshire Transcript Norfolk Icon description Icons Description Appearances red ink, within a cartouche Etymology OE norþ-folc (in OldEnglish Bede used to denote the people living north of the Humber) Translation Earlier editors Early Maps Overwritten no Attested

• Cheltenham

1935 (Parsons) Early Maps Overwritten no Attested spelling Chelteham 1156 RBE, 1218 ClR, 1248 Ass; OldEnglish form varies between Celtan- and Ciltan-; in Middle English Chilt- is the predominant form, but Chelt- reasserts itself from the middle of the

• Gloucester

gates, stripy roofs Icons gates (multiple) castle church Description Appearances Etymology Romano-British Glevum (probably Celtic glavio-, 'bright'), adopted into OldEnglish as Gleawe + ceaster, 'Roman settlement' Translation Earlier editors gloucestre (Parsons) Early Maps glocit(er) (Angliae Figura); Gloucestre (Totius Britanniae;

• Rochester

gates, stripy roofs Icons decorated roofs castle church with cross building gates (multiple) Description Appearances flaking ink Etymology Hrofi, OldEnglish form of Romano-British place-name Dorubrevi + OE ceaster, 'Roman settlement' Translation Earlier editors Rowchestr; a bridge is shown over

• Tenby

Full Record: Tenby County Pembrokeshire Transcript tynbey Icon description two castles, walls with one gate Icons gate castles (multiple) Description Appearances faded Etymology W din, 'fort' + bych, 'small' Translation Earlier editors Tynbeyr (Gough) Early Maps ty(n)by (Angliae Figura);

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

nine MSS of the South English Nativity of Mary and Christ (part of the South English Legendary) contain closely related texts. Edition: O. S. Pickering, The South English Nativity of Mary and Christ, Middle English Texts 1 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1975).

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Edition: M. Wattie, The Middle English Lai le Freine', Smith College Studies in Modern Languages, vol. 10, no. 3 (Northampton, Mass.: Smithe College, 1928). (Critical edition). Other editions: A. Laskaya and E. Salisbury, The Middle English Breton Lays (Michigan: Medieval

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

1966). Other editions: A. Laskaya and E. Salisbury, The Middle English Breton Lays (Michigan: Medieval Publications for TEAMS, 1995). (Includes an electronic version of the text). D. B. Sands, Middle English Verse Romances (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1986). B. Ford,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

S. J. H. Herrtage, The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum, EETS ES 33 (London: Trübner, 1879; reprinted 1962): 498-499. R. P. Wülcker, Altenglisches Lesebuch (Halle: Niemeyer, 1874-80). A. J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, Chaucer Society, Second Series,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

591 lines, not including Latin speech-labels or the English title. Ends perfect but with loss of line ends on f.35ra. Six other manuscripts of variant versions: BL Additional MS 22283 (Simeon). W. Midland. 1380-1400. Simeon also has The King of

• Benefice of OLD SODBURY (WO.GL.HW.16)

Preter hec portio vicarii Benefice of OLD SODBURY (WO.GL.HW.16) MAGNA SOBBUR' Lichfield Dean and Chapter Library, MS 23 p.54 MAGNA SUBBURY T 239-40 (from PRO E179/58/3, one membrane, now almost completely illegible, apparently damaged by water, and use of the

• Benefice of SHERFIELD ENGLISH (WN.WN.SO.04)

Scirefeld' Benefice of SHERFIELD ENGLISH (WN.WN.SO.04) SCHIRFELD Lichfield Dean and Chapter Library, MS 23 p.25v SCIREFELD Lincolnshire Archives Office, Lincoln Dean and Chapter Muniments, A1/11 p.143 SCHIREFELD Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae Auctoritate Papae Nicholai IV, ed. T.Astle & S.Ayscough

• Benefice of WENDEN PARVA (LO.CO.NE.12)

TEX, TLIB1&2, TCI) £ 0. 6s. 8d. WENDEN PARVA TL509365 1 ded: UNKNOWN J.J.Mackay, Wendens Ambo: the History of an English Village (Saffron Walden, 1982) p.14-15 (pension) LONDON ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, SECULAR COLLEGE, CHAPTER £ 0. 6s. 8d. (inst.) rec.

• Benefice of STOW (NEAR THREEKINGHAM) (LI.LK.AV.11)

Library, Cotton Tiberius C x p.121v £ 16. 13s. 4d. STOW (NEAR THREEKINGHAM) TF098350 1 ded: ST AETHELTHRYTH, recorded 1148x1166. English Episcopal Acta, vol. i (Lincoln 1067-1185), ed. D.M.Smith (Oxford, 1980) p.203 (vicarage) PRO, E179/68/8 (minute benefices for archdeaconries of

• Benefice of WOKING (WN.SU.GU.37)

Records (Hampshire Record Office), HRO A1/12 (Reg. Beaufort), fos 1v-8v (Winchester) p.8 WOKKINGG' PRO, C270/16 p.51 £ 41. 7s. 4d. OLD WOKING TQ020568 ded: ST PETER The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Surrey, ed. H.E.Malden, 4 vols &

• Late XIIth cent. MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 35,110 British Library, London 188 images.

from Bede's Ecclesiastical History. Vellum; ff. 187. Late XIIth cent. (ante 1195). In double columns. Initials in red and green. Old binding of wooden boards covered with white skin. "Liber fratrum heremitarum ord. Sci. Augustini de Nouo Castro" [Newcastle-on-Tyne] (f.

• MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 35,168 British Library, London 334 images.

Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B Manuscript Number 35,168 Source Library British Library, London Description CHRONICLE of English History from the Creation to 1225, in Latin: the same compilation of which the latter part was used by

• MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 35,157 British Library, London 127 images.

concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Dowell, Dobet and Dobest. The latest version, called the "C" text by Skeat, Early English Text Society od., 1873. Begins: " In a somer sesonn when soft was pe sonne | I shoep me

• MS Scotland Medieval Ms. 3859 National Library of Scotland 118 images.

Scotland Medieval Manuscript Number Ms. 3859 Source Library National Library of Scotland Description Savonarola. Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century:

• fourteenth century MS Scotland Medieval Ms. 1902 National Library of Scotland 131 images.

fourteenth century. Except ff.118-121v, the manuscript is written in double columns. Some names of speakers in (iv) are added in English in a fourteenth-century hand, and references to scripture in the margins of (v) in a hand probably of the

• Coloured initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation

• Coloured initial 'B'(eatus) with display script, at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the pressmark of Christ Church, Canterbury 'r', and ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer and Lord Lumley., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation

• Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) at the beginning of Psalm 22., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation

• Initial 'D'(ixit) at the beginning of Psalm 109., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation

• Initial 'Q'(omodo) with a human face, at the beginning of Psalm 118., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation