Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.533–4; Repertorium i.18–20. See W. Scase, ‘Reginald Pecock, John Carpenter, and John Colop's “Common-Profit” Books: Aspects of Book Ownership and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century London’, Medium Aevum 61 (1992), 261–74. MS foliated in two parts running: 1–64, and 1–100.

[1]

Part 1, f. 1v

Propur will when hyt ys forsakyn and made comune þan hyt ys accordant wiþ goddes will and all gode mennes wyll to whomme we ar subiectis made ryʒt as to god as reule of religioune askys þis commen will ys soþefastli clepyd þe moste preciouse offerand and moste dere presant …

f. 9v

… what þou art and what þou shalte be and þou haste þen lytell cause to be proude or joyfull of þys worlde etcetera.

Of Proper Will, a treatise on self-will erroneously attributed to Walter Hilton. IPMEP 551; Wells Rev. 9:3447 [45]; Jolliffe F.22. Ed. (from Dd.5.55) in YW i.173–5.

Other texts: Dd.5.55 [3]; Ff.5.40 [5].

[2]

Part 1, f. 10

… but be one þat haþ proued it the þing is prouid heigh for it surmountiþ euery þouʒt [N] ow if þou leue after þe manere of lore þan lyuestow ordinatli and worschipfulli and þis is þe first partie of oure sarmoun þat we touchid at our begynnyng after þat most þou stodie to liuen louesumlie or leuyngli as to þi neigbour and to do þis mostow put all þin entente to louen and to be beloued …

f. 10v

… for þei arn good and þe schrewis for þei mowen be good in þis manere louestow not but goodnesse siþ þou ne louest but goodnes …

Part of a sermon for an unknown occasion, which discusses the principal duty of a virtuous life (loving God); begins and ends imperfectly. Wells Rev. 11:4302–3 [56]. A full transcription of the fragment is given in Repertorium i.19.

[3]

Part 1, f. 11

Two þingis i haue purposid þourgh godis grace to do in þis litil tretis first to schewe schortli the comune condicions of þe seuene dedly synnes as bi figure and ensaumple in general and afterward to reherce bi proces what braunches and bowes growen out of hem in special as touching þe first …

f. 60v