Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.5; Baker & Ringrose pp.161–3. MS in two parts, separately foliated.

[A29]

[1]

Part 2, f. 209v (old foliation ccix)

Please it your highenesse of youre habundant grace to graunt to your humble soubget and poure dedman william walter of london your gracious lettres patens under your grete seale accordyng to the fourme and effect hereaftyr suyng and he schal praye to god for you. ‘To the kyng oure soueran lorde’. Petition for a patent of exemption from assizes, juries etcetera. to be granted to William Walter of London. See Baker & Ringrose p. 162.

[2]

Part 2, f. 218v

A herde of hertys a herd of bukkes a herd of swannes a herd of wrennes a herd of cranes a herd of curlewes a herd of feldfaires a bevy of roes a bevy of qwales a bevy of ladyes a bevy or a sege of herouns a sege of botores shirmyng of goldfynches a shaterys of starrys or of starlinges …

… a company or a babelyng of women a abhominable sight of mony monkes a solas of gudfeliship a rysyng of rebell or of shrowes.

List of seventy-two collective phrases. Proper Terms: Terms of Association or Collective Terms. Wells Rev. 10:3921 [470].

Other texts: This MS is not noted by Wells Rev. which lists 16 others but misprints the call number of Ll.1.18 as Ll.1.8. See Ll.1.18 [9]. For MSS already indexed see IMEP 3 indexing BodL Digby 196 [3]; IMEP 9 indexing BodL Ashmole 189 [18]; IMEP 13 indexing Lambeth 306 [31]; and IMEP 14 indexing Brogyntyn II.1 [19].

[3]

Part 2, f. 230v

A medecyn for to stanche þe ache take malows a gret quantitite and seethe hem first in clene water and wryng oute water betwix two renches and than take gude milk newe and put hem yn and sethe hem þerin till they be thyk and make hem in plaster and lay hem to þe sore.

Medical recipe to treat aching.

[4]

Part 2, f. 246v