Date: 01/1399 — 07/02/1399 People & Places Participant: Margaret daughter of Thomas Middleton [de Midelton] Alternate name: Margaret wife of John Bulmer [Bulmer] Role: plaintiff Details: female Participant: Walter Rawcliff [Rouclyff] Role: defendant Details: male Notes: Executor of the testament
Role: plaintiff Details: male; clerk Employment: rector of Escrick Location: Escrick (YorkshireEastRiding) Place(s): Escrick (Eskeryk, Eskryk) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: John Nelson [Nelson; Neleson] Role: defendant Details: male; layman Location: Escrick (YorkshireEastRiding) Place(s): Escrick (Eskeryk, Eskryk) : ecclesiastical parish Location:
— 16/11/1403 People & Places Participant: prior and brethren of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem Role: plaintiff Details: undefined Location: Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (sanctus johannes jerosolamitani, hospitale sanctus johannis jerusalem' in Anglia, conventus hospitale sancti
Role: defendant Details: undefined Location: York (Ebor') : diocese Place(s): Ayton (YorkshireNorthRiding) Ayton (ecclesia paroch' de Aton) : undefined Participant: John Dalton [de Dalton] Role: defendant Details: male; clerk Employment: official of the Court of Durham Participant: Randolph Steel [Steel;
(Ebor') : undefined Participant: ThomasFox [Fox] Role: defendant Details: male Location: Snaith (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Snaith (Snayth) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: John Willingham [Willyngham] Role: prosecution proctor Details: male; clerk Employment: proctor Participant: WilliamDriffield [Dryffeld] Role: prosecution proctor Details: male; clerk
Now goþ þis marchaunt faste and bysyly Til he cam in to Bruges meryly To Flaundres ward his prentys wel him gydeþ þe morne came and forþ þis marchaunt rydeþ Til þat daun Iohn rydeþ to his abbeye þey dranken
causeþ more dispence And compynable and reuerent was sche A wyf he hadde of excellent beaute That riche was for which men heelde him wys A Marchaunt whilom dwelled at Seint Denys Here bygynneþ þe schipmannes tale f . 204
A certeyn frankes and some wiþ him he ladde To borwe of certein frendes þat he hadde For which þis marchaunt is y wont to gon To paye xx þousand scheldes anon þat needes moste he make a Cheuesaunce For
shipmannes tale A Marchaunt whilom dwelt at seint denys That riche was for which men hild him wis A wyf he had of excellent beaute And compaynable and reuerent was she Which is a thing that causeth more dispence Than
And thus I lete hem ete and drynke and pleye This Marchaunt and this monk a day or tweye The thrid day this Marchaunt vp riseth And on his nedes sadly him auyseth And vp in to his countyng hous
in colours and gold (f. 4). Tract against clerks (ends imperfectly) Unidentified owner, 18th century: note attributing the tract to John Wycliffe (f. 1v). Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller: catalogue 1836, no. 1359; bought by Phillipps.Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d.
White vine initial 'M'(ecenas) and, in the lower margin, the bookstamps of Pandolfo di Ricasoli and the Convent of the Discalced Carmelites in Florence. ff. 72-73 are parchment leaves. 2 large initials in gold with white vine decoration in
White vine initials 'N'(ec) and 'O' (Curas) at the beginning of the text. This manuscript was made in Florence c. 1440-c. 1450, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 2 white
for fistula in ano in John Arderne's Liber Medicinarum. Large initials in red. Paraphs in red. Highlighting of letters in red. Line-fillers in red. Drawings in brown, red, yellow and/or green, 1 also with blue (f. 85v), often of plants
drawing of a bell in John Arderne's Liber Medicinarum. Large initials in red. Paraphs in red. Highlighting of letters in red. Line-fillers in red. Drawings in brown, red, yellow and/or green, 1 also with blue (f. 85v), often of plants
barnabe þat he us to heouene bringue'. English Horstmann 1887, pp. 26-29. ff. 32v-34r South English Legendary: Life of St. John the Baptist ( IMEV 2945 ) 'Seint iohan was þe beste bern þe holie baptist þat euere of womman
Shropshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, p. 149). A fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Instructions for Parish Priests copied by John Holyns. ff. 1r-33v John Mirk Instructions for Parish Priests (IMEV 961 ) 'God seythe hymselfe as wretyn
218, LP 6960 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 196). An early fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial . ff. 1r-32v John Mirk Festial (IPMEP 734 ) 'Ne dar þe noþyng drede'. 'grete peyne þu schalt childe bere
23v, ' John Longley ' (?Langley Green, extreme W. Worcs). See also Seymour 1966 for more details, p. 192. Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004. Bennett, J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville
ista anglie confinia ita quod fere omnes turbarentur in lectis'. Good. On f. 1r: ' John nycholas owethe this book' and again on f. 214v: 'John nycholas owethe this book 1576'. Other names on f. 214v: ' dominus thomas browne