• CP.F.222

York (Ebor') : diocese Participant: JohnHumphrey [Umfray] Role: defendant Details: male Location: Sproatley (YorkshireEastRiding) Place(s): Sproatley (Sprotlay) : undefined York (Ebor') : diocese Participant: JoanLillywhite [Lillywhite; Lillywhyte] Role: defendant Details: female Location: Sproatley (YorkshireEastRiding) Place(s): Sproatley (Sprotlay) : undefined

• CP.F.224

Participant: JoanRand [Rande] Role: witness Details: female; 40 Location: York, St Denys (Yorkshire) Place(s): York, St Denys (Sanctus Dionisius) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: AgnesGray [Gray] Role: witness Details: female; 40 Location: York : city Place(s): Walmgate (Walmegate) : street name

• CP.F.225

Details: male; 28 Employment: porter Location: Scarborough (YorkshireNorthRiding) Place(s): Scarborough (Scardeburgh) : undefined Location: Scarborough (YorkshireNorthRiding) Place(s): Scarborough (Scardeburgh) : township Location: Le Sandes (le Sandes) : undefined Cannot identify Location: York (Ebor') : city Location: York (Ebor') : diocese

• CP.F.227

witness Details: male; clerk Employment: clerk of Whitby Location: Whitby (YorkshireNorthRiding) Place(s): Whitby (Whytby) : undefined Location: York (Ebor') : city Location: York (Ebor') : diocese Location: Danby (YorkshireNorthRiding) Place(s): Danby (Danby) : township Danby (Danby) : ecclesiastical parish Danby

• CP.F.221

ecclesiastical parish Location: Wheldrake (YorkshireEastRiding) Place(s): Wheldrake (Qweldryke) : ecclesiastical parish Location: Skipwith (YorkshireEastRiding) Place(s): Thicket (Thikheved) : fieldname Location: Aughton (YorkshireEastRiding) Place(s): Aughton (Aghton) : ecclesiastical parish Location: York : city Place(s): YorkYork Minster (ecclesia cath' Ebor') : undefined

• Detail of illuminated initial 'A'(d dominum cum tribularer), with foliate motifs, at Psalm 119., Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald'), in the Gallican version, with a litany (ff. 209-211) followed by prayers (ff. 211-214)

the time the manuscript was made); perhaps made for Oswald, founder of Ramsey abbey, bishop of Worcester, and archbishop of York from 972 to 992: mentioned in Ramsey's 14th-century catalouge as a 'Psalter of St Oswald' (see Gameson 1996).Thomas Powell:

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'D'(ixit dominus domino meo), with foliate and knotwork motifs, at Psalm 109., Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald'), in the Gallican version, with a litany (ff. 209-211) followed by prayers (ff. 211-214)

the time the manuscript was made); perhaps made for Oswald, founder of Ramsey abbey, bishop of Worcester, and archbishop of York from 972 to 992: mentioned in Ramsey's 14th-century catalouge as a 'Psalter of St Oswald' (see Gameson 1996).Thomas Powell:

• Text page with plain initials in gold 'C'(anticum Psalmorum)., Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald'), in the Gallican version, with a litany (ff. 209-211) followed by prayers (ff. 211-214)

the time the manuscript was made); perhaps made for Oswald, founder of Ramsey abbey, bishop of Worcester, and archbishop of York from 972 to 992: mentioned in Ramsey's 14th-century catalouge as a 'Psalter of St Oswald' (see Gameson 1996).Thomas Powell:

• Detail of tinted drawing with the Virgin Mary standing at the base of the cross., Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald'), in the Gallican version, with a litany (ff. 209-211) followed by prayers (ff. 211-214)

the time the manuscript was made); perhaps made for Oswald, founder of Ramsey abbey, bishop of Worcester, and archbishop of York from 972 to 992: mentioned in Ramsey's 14th-century catalouge as a 'Psalter of St Oswald' (see Gameson 1996).Thomas Powell:

• Detail of illuminated initial 'D'(eus in nomine tuo saluum me fac) at Psalm 53., Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald'), in the Gallican version, with a litany (ff. 209-211) followed by prayers (ff. 211-214)

the time the manuscript was made); perhaps made for Oswald, founder of Ramsey abbey, bishop of Worcester, and archbishop of York from 972 to 992: mentioned in Ramsey's 14th-century catalouge as a 'Psalter of St Oswald' (see Gameson 1996).Thomas Powell:

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Robbins, R. H., ed, 1959. Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries , New York: Columbia University Press. Ward, H. 1910. Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum ,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Matzke, J. 1909. Les oeuvres de Simund de Freine , New York: Johnson Reprint, 1968. Meyer, P. 1884. ‘ Notice et extraits du MS. 8336 de la Bibliotheque de Sir Thomas

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456). Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004. Blake, N. F. 1972. Middle English Religious Prose , York Medieval Texts, London: Arnold. Boffey, J. 2003. ‘ The Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and its

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in the Vernon Manuscript , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 1-13, p. 8. Dreves, G. 1961. Analecta Hymnica , New York; London: Johnson Reprint Corp. Erler, M. C. 2002. Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England , Cambridge: Cambridge