Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.303–4.

[1]

f. 1

The first inhabytynge of þis lande how women first inhabit it and after that brute inhabit it and conquered the geauntes and this chapetur makith mention of all the kynges that hath regnyd in this lande and of al þe principall actes and dedes that wer doon wiþin the lande and how long thei regned …

f. 2v

… and thei regned in þis lande unto þe tyme þat brute come and conquered them and inhabit it and made townes and cites.

Prefatory chapters and prologue to the Brut. IPMEP 374; Wells Rev. 8:2818–33 [10].

Other texts: See [3] below.

[2]

f. 2v

In þe noble cite of grete troy þer was a noble knyght and a myghty and a man of grete renoune callid enneas the which when troye was lost by theme of greke fledde into lumbardy wherof was a kyng and gouernoure callid latyme and þer was another kyng called turocelme þe which strongly werrid togeders …

f. 158

… and than the kyng restid hym þere and put þe towne in gouernaunce and reule and cried his peace amonges the citezeins etcetera.

Brut. Abbreviated Version. IPMEP 374; Wells Rev. 8:2818–33 [10].

Other texts: See [3] below.

[3]

f. 161

And in this same yere at þe feste of witsonday the kyng lay at maunt with all his lordes and ther he helde a roiall feste at þat tyme amonge all his people and at þis same feste he made two erles in normandy þat oon was the cappo of burdeux and he was made erle of langvile and that other …

f. 183v

… comowners and also þorugh england the people died fore both men women and children which was grete hevynesse to all people.

‘Off the tretis made bytwne the kyng off yngland and off fraunce capitulo ij xlviij’ (f. 161). Brut. Continuation from 1419, ends incompletely (Brie 467/18–19). The text refers to Gaston de Foix (second son of Archambaud de Grailly, count of Foix, and brother of Jean, count of Foix at this time), who was made count of Longueville on 11 June 1419. IPMEP 365; Wells Rev. 8:2845–50 [18]. For the Brut see also IPMEP 374; Wells Rev. 8:2818–33 [10]. Preceded by extract from John Page's poem ‘The Siege of Rouen’ (NIMEV 979) on ff. 158v–61.