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i. The Manuscript and its Contents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1977

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References

1 See Thomson, , Later Lollards, pp. 237–8.Google Scholar

2 McFarlane, , Wycliffe, p. 176.Google Scholar

3 Discussed in Fines, J., ‘Heresy Trials in the Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, 1511–12’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, xiv (1963), 160–74CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Luxton, I., ‘The Lichfield Court Book: a Postscript’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, xliv (1971), 120–5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Discussed in Thomson, , Later Lollards, pp. 187–90.Google Scholar

5 McFarlane, , Wycliffe, pp. 171–80.Google Scholar

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8 See the articles cited below in the Introduction and in the footnotes to the text, and her edition of selected Wycliffite writings to be published by the Cambridge University Press in 1977.

9 See note on fly-leaf at beginning of MS. B.2.

10 See Table 1 (p. 3).

11 See p. 8, n. 47.

12 See Contents pages (pp. iv–v) and Table 1 (p. 3).

13 See pp. 32 and 174 and elsewhere.

14 Jacob, E. F., ‘Thomas Brouns, Bishop of Norwich, 1436–1445’, Essays in British History presented to Sir Keith Feiling, ed. Trevor-Roper, H. R. (London, 1964), p. 70Google Scholar, where he is called John Exeter.

15 Ibid., p. 70; see below, p. 207; Norfolk and Norwich Record Office, Probate Records, Registered copies of wills proved in the Norwich Consistory Court, Register Wylbey, fos. 107r–108r.

16 See p. 40.

17 The only exception consists of the record of the penance which six men and women did ‘pro aliis causis’ (i.e., not for reasons of heresy); see p. 195.

18 Fines, J., ‘Heresy Trials’, op. cit., p. 161Google Scholar; ‘The Post-Mortem for Heresy of Richard Hunne’, English Historical Review, lxxviii (1963), 528–9.Google Scholar

19 See pp. 59 and 82 and elsewhere.

20 See pp. 142–4.

21 See pp. 35–8.

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23 Archbishop Ussher noted that it was there when he saw it (Trinity College, Dublin, MS. D.3.4, fo 119r). It is not known when he consulted it. Foxe, Acts, Book 6 (ed. Pratt, iii, pp. 580 and 597, n. 1) simply described the manuscript as (part of) a register of the diocese of Norwich, without saying where it was housed.

24 The manuscript does not appear in the catalogue of Lambeth Palace Library compiled after Archbishop Abbot's death in 1633 (Library Record 6). Nor was it part of the collection transferred to Cambridge in 1647 and restored to Lambeth in 1664 (Bill, E. G. W., A Catalogue of Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, Mss. 1222–1860 (Oxford, 1972), pp. 151Google Scholar). Nor does it appear in the catalogue of the material in the archbishop's study (Bodleian Library, Tanner MS. 88, fos. 20r–69v). I am indebted to Dr Bill, Librarian of Lambeth Palace, for most of the information in this footnote.

25 Westminster Diocesan Archives, MS. B.2, title page and fly-leaf at begining of volume.

26 e.g., p. 125.

27 e.g., pp. 51–2 and 211.

28 e.g., pp. 60–2.

29 e.g., p. 132.

30 e.g., pp. 190–1 and 197.

31 See p. 25.

32 e.g., pp. 91–2.

33 e.g., pp. 39–40 and 210.

34 See p. 94.

35 e.g., pp. 115–17.

36 See pp. 43–51 and 72–6.

37 See pp. 35–8 and 83–4.

38 McFarlane, , Wycliffe, p. 120.Google Scholar