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comendyd of wryters'. F. 118v - same hand - 'A defynityon of gentilyty'. F. 119r - same hand: 'gentilyte ys ye renowne of our auncesters for theyr bounty wch ys ye gyft of god...'; 'Tullyus Hostilius was discendid of pare

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bner. Horstmann, C. 1895. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers , Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1, pp. 219-40. Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales . 1943. Vol. 1.

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Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Morris, R. ed, 1863. Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiae), Berlin: Asher.

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of Gloucester Chronicle (IMEV 727 ) 'Fram the begynnyng of the world to tyme that now is' Imperfect Chronicle begins with the siege of Troy and ends imperfectly with the death of John. See Hudson 1969. ff. 170r-188v Chronicle

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cristes blessinge. Amen'. 'Explicit iacob & iosep'. English Napier 1916. ff. 11r-46r Geoffrey of Waterford Elucidarius 'Souentefois mauoient prie mi disciple'. Translation into French of the Elucidarius of Honorius Augustodunensis. French Meyer 1956, pp. 117-118. ff. 46v-51v Letter from Prester

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Collection of medical recipes 'This tretys byfore wryten is compyled of þe tretyses of arystotel galeyne and of ypocrase and of oþer leches of salerne. Magister willelmus leche de kylingholme'. 'Recipe þe iuse of planteyne and of syngrene and of

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of St. Edmund ’ s Speculum , Ascribed to Richard Rolle ’ , PMLA , 40.2, 240-251. Wright, C. E. 1972. Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Ma nuscripts preserved in the Department

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) Part of the Southern Passion . f. 32r South English Legendary: Life of Judas (IMEV 1809 ) f. 34r South English Legendary: Life of Pilate (IMEV 2755 ) f. 36v South English Legendary: Life of St Mary of Egypt

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H., ed, 1959. Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries , New York: Columbia University Press. Ward, H. 1910. Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum , London: Trustees of the British Museum, 2,

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i am kyng of all kynges lord of all lordes'. 'Writen in þe yere of youre gret god my cosyn mcccc xli yere'. Proclamation dated 1416. English f. 5v The breadth and length of an acre of land In a

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also the scribe of Cambridge, Magdalene Pepys, 2616 and Scribe 2 of Wisbech Museum, MS 8 (Fletcher 1994, p. 151). Aarts, F. G. A. M. 1967. The Pater Noster ofRichard Ermyte: a Late Middle English Exposition of the Lord

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7190 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A late fourteenth-century copy of the C-text of Piers Plowman that contains a contemporary note regarding Stacy de Rokayle of Shipton under Wychwood, allegedly William Langland's father (Russell and Kane 1997, p.

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'58' is written in the hand of Thomas Martin of Palgrave (d. 1771) with a note referring to a manuscript in the possession of [Joseph ] Ames (d. 1759). Eighteenth/nineteenth century - the names of Matthew Lee and Thomas Huckell

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to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience, Medium Aevum Monographs 12, Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures, pp. 87-88. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English:

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forms of citation, of banns 'Regula quintonis'. Some ecclesiastical forms of citation, of banns ('Thomas Vrmestone capellanus parochie de Lyme', 'capellanus de Rothestorne', 20 Jan. 1473), or declaring causes of excommunication (in English, f. 2), of an indenture of apprenticeship

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operacionoui quadrantis'. Latin f. 61v Charm based on the measurement of the length of the body of Jesus (IPMEP 733 ) 'Thys crosse xv tymes metyng ys þe length of owre lorde'. The prayer also contains a reference to saints

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Unknown On f. 28 is a note of the banns ofRichard Wynyard and Joan Blymyll . On f. 256v is an entry of the death of Robert Whytt , BA, curate of a church dedicated to SS. Peter and

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Pope Blaunt'. Flyleaf, f. 1r - bookplate ofRic[hard ] Rawlinson. Flyleaf, f. iv - 'Brutes chronicle ms Tho: Pope Blount eq. owner'. F. 16r 'of the countye of ... Thomas Lewis of Syntonn ' - sixteenth century. F. 23r

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Scribe of ff. 7r-86v and Scribe of ff. 87r-end: Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 350 240, LP 7391 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A late fifteenth-century manuscript of the Memoriale Credencium , a sophisticated manual of

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4 mm. Scribe of ff. 149v-167r writing in a regular Anglicana Formata, very similar to scribe of ff. 118r-149v. Use of the same ink colour, but the aspect of this hand is more rounded. The strokes of the letters are