• Benefice of OLD SODBURY (WO.GL.HW.16)

Preter hec portio vicarii Benefice of OLD SODBURY (WO.GL.HW.16) MAGNA SOBBUR' Lichfield Dean and Chapter Library, MS 23 p.54 MAGNA SUBBURY T 239-40 (from PRO E179/58/3, one membrane, now almost completely illegible, apparently damaged by water, and use of the

• Benefice of SHERFIELD ENGLISH (WN.WN.SO.04)

Scirefeld' Benefice of SHERFIELD ENGLISH (WN.WN.SO.04) SCHIRFELD Lichfield Dean and Chapter Library, MS 23 p.25v SCIREFELD Lincolnshire Archives Office, Lincoln Dean and Chapter Muniments, A1/11 p.143 SCHIREFELD Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae Auctoritate Papae Nicholai IV, ed. T.Astle & S.Ayscough

• Benefice of WENDEN PARVA (LO.CO.NE.12)

TEX, TLIB1&2, TCI) £ 0. 6s. 8d. WENDEN PARVA TL509365 1 ded: UNKNOWN J.J.Mackay, Wendens Ambo: the History of an English Village (Saffron Walden, 1982) p.14-15 (pension) LONDON ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, SECULAR COLLEGE, CHAPTER £ 0. 6s. 8d. (inst.) rec.

• Benefice of STOW (NEAR THREEKINGHAM) (LI.LK.AV.11)

Library, Cotton Tiberius C x p.121v £ 16. 13s. 4d. STOW (NEAR THREEKINGHAM) TF098350 1 ded: ST AETHELTHRYTH, recorded 1148x1166. English Episcopal Acta, vol. i (Lincoln 1067-1185), ed. D.M.Smith (Oxford, 1980) p.203 (vicarage) PRO, E179/68/8 (minute benefices for archdeaconries of

• Benefice of WOKING (WN.SU.GU.37)

Records (Hampshire Record Office), HRO A1/12 (Reg. Beaufort), fos 1v-8v (Winchester) p.8 WOKKINGG' PRO, C270/16 p.51 £ 41. 7s. 4d. OLD WOKING TQ020568 ded: ST PETER The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Surrey, ed. H.E.Malden, 4 vols &

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Morris, R., ed, 1867-68, 1873. OldEnglish Homilies of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries , 2 vols, EETS,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

English , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 145-147. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Morris, R., ed, 1872. An

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

in English: 'Superbia i boste y bragge euer with þe beste'. 'qua perditur vita eterna'. Latin English f. 103r-v Ten Commandments 'De x mandatis'. 'Cogitatum habe in preceptis dei'. First four sins only with each followed by an English quatrain.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

by the English equivalient. Latin English f. 84r Old Testament worthies (IMEV 109 ) 'Iam innocenciam able audiui'. Seven lines on Old Testament worthies. The Latin is followed by the English equivalient, beginning: 'Abel was looset in treunesse'. English f.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

College 6 s. xv med English Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 345 269, LP 7510 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A mid-fifteenth-century manuscript (Hanna 2002, p. 7) containing Lydgate's Troy Book . ff. 1r-134r The Troy

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with the royal arms of England, at the beginning of the text., Tractatulus de regimine seu caritate principum

of the English Observant Franciscans (c. 1508-1513), and his confessor, inscribed ' Sacre regie maiestasti frater Ste/phanus baronis immeritus p[ro[vincialis / et hu[m]ilis s[er]vulus' (f. 1); the royal arms of England (f. 3).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Marginal drawing of two scholars pointing at geometrical figures., Glosses to Aristotle's Sophistici Elenchi, Topica, Analytica Priora, Analytica Posteriora

(b. 1395, d. 1461/5) of Witton, Durham, and Old Malton, Yorkshire: inscribed 'Textus nove logice magi[str]i Willielm[i] Eure', and 'magister Will[el]m[us] Eure Eure', 15th century (ff. 210v, 211).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of

• Coloured initials, and in the lower right corner a human-animal hybrid creature, perhaps intended to ornament the run-over word at the bottom of the column., Interpretaciones nominum Ebreorum (Interpretation of the Hebrew names)

list of 20 books bequeathed by Richard of Chester, canon of York (died 1347). [Possibly part I only].The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 and

• Initial with floral decoration. Coloured initials, line-fillers and paraphs. Added in the upper margin is the note 'Ex monasterio cestrie': From the monastery of Chester., Interpretaciones nominum Ebreorum (Interpretation of the Hebrew names)

list of 20 books bequeathed by Richard of Chester, canon of York (died 1347). [Possibly part I only].The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 and

• Less colourful than the first two major divisions at Psalms 1 and 51, the large decorated initial 'D'(omine) and display capitals at the beginning of Psalm 101 are here executed in just blue and red, with some details in orange. Between the lines of the main Latin text is a translation in Old English., Psalter, in the Roman version (ff. 4-95), with canticles (ff. 96-104), a short litany (f. 104), a hymnal (ff. 105-128) and monastic canticles (ff. 129-135); added calendar (ff. 2,3) (the 'Bosworth Psalter')

orange. Between the lines of the main Latin text is a translation in OldEnglish. 29 Psalms and 6 canticles have an interlinear gloss in OldEnglish (ff. 32-33, 34, 38v, 40, 43, 54v-55, 64v-65v, 77v-87, 90-92, 101-103).The text of