^{page 12 note a} The original text of this Office is found in MS. Reg. 12, C. xii. fo. 1, r^o (a manuscript of the end of the reigu of Edward II. or of the beginning of the reign of Edward III.) It is written as if it were prose, without any division into lines. It has been already printed in The Political Songs of England from the reign of John to that of Edward II. p. 268Google Scholar, edited by Thomas Wright, F.S.A. for the Camden Society. This reprint has been collated with the original, and several variations have been corrected (as, for example, Judam Hoylandiæ for Sudam); the couplet at the foot of the first page of the manuscript added; and the spelling restored to that of the manuscript, which is preserved in the British Museum.

^{page 13 note a} Robert de Hoyland.

^{page 14 note a} Here ends the first page of the manuscript. At the foot is written in the same or a similar hand:—

Heu! proles queritur quod rara fides reperitur,

Lex juris moritur, fraus vitit, amor sepelitur.