Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.126.

[A36]

[A37]

[1]

f. 85v

At þe bygynnnyg god and haly kyrk curses all þais þat þe frawnches of haly kyrk brekes or destrubes and all þat er agayne þe peese or ryght or þe state of haly kyrk or þar to assentes wyth dede or counsale and all þai þat haly kyrk pryues of ryght or makes of haly kyrk …

f. 88v

… or elles before as yt may beste falle and also sum sounnday in þe aduente before yole and þus haly kyrk uses thurgh cristendome.

‘Sentencie maioris excommunicacionis’ (f. 85v). The Gret Sentence / Magna Sentencia Excommunicationis. IPMEP 122, version (f); Wells Rev. 7:2573–5 [229]. This version appears in the York Manual (Manuale Insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis), ed. Henderson pp. 119–22. Pickering notes 5 copies of this version (his classification no. 8, p. 235), and over 40 different Middle English versions classified into 19 groups; see further Pattwell, ‘Cursing’.

Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 45 MSS and two early prints, supplemented by IMEP 6 indexing YM XVI M.4 [1] which adds 5 more MSS: BodL Digby 77 ff. 148–148v (indexed in IMEP 3, Digby 77 [1]), BL Harley 2379 ff. 105–09v, Oxf. New Col 292 f. 115v (a fragment, indexed in IMEP 8, New Col 292 [1]), John Rylands Lat 339 f. 147–147v (not indexed in IMEP 2), and London Soc Antiquaries 718; IMEP 15 adds Worcester Q.9 [1]. For other MSS already indexed see IMEP 4 indexing BodL Douce 60 [3] and 103 [2]; IMEP 5 indexing BL Add 11579 [1]; IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. Trinity Col 7 [11] and 86 [20]; IMEP 9 indexing BodL Ashmole 750 [8]; IMEP 13 indexing Lambeth 172 [1] and Register of Henry Chichele [7]; IMEP 15 indexing Worcester F.172 [16]; and IMEP 18 indexing Camb. Pembroke 285 [9]. See also Dd.12.69 [11], Mm.1.44 [4] and Nn.3.10 [21].

[2]

f. 89

We sal mak a special prayer unto god almyghthy and to þe glorius virgyne hys moder our lady saynt marie and tyl all ye faire felischip of heuen for þe state of all haly kyrk and for þe pees of þe rewme and for all þat er trew to þe kyng and to þe corone …

f. 90