Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.46–7; Seymour, ‘Travels’ pp. 193–4. Now bound as 4 volumes with separate foliation.

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Part 2, f. 2

… not be assembled long togither but that it is by disperprelyng and enpoveryng his reaume and he saith if a goode king be slow to serche and to enquere of the dedis of his nobles and of his peple and of his ennemyes he shall not be oo day surelie in his reaume and he saith that …

f. 109v

… and this sufficethe of the translacion of the morall saiengis of philosophres and wisist clerkis yn theire daies lyving in vertue albeit the more parte of tho clerkis were paynems and lyved before the incarnacion of criste and which booke was translated into englisshe at the instaunce of sir john fastolffe knyght baron of cyllyegwyllem the yere of of crist miiij and this booke was of the new correctid and examyned by william wyrcestre the monyth of marche the yere of crist m iiii lxxii endyng after the origynall and perrafed also for more opyn and redye undrestanding.