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a list of sheriffs and mayors of Chester for the years 1469-1499. Manuscript not consulted. Book written for John Dedwood of Chester c. 1470 (see Macaulay 1899-1902, p. clxiii). Dedwood's name and device, a piece of the trunk of a

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the southern recension of the Prick of Conscience from the second half of the fourteenth century (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 133). Only Part 2 is considered here. f. 1r Table of Contents ff. 1v-96v Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension,

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copy of the Prick of Conscience from the second half of the fourteenth century. ff. 1r-119r Richard Rolle Prick of Conscience (Main Version, IMEV 3428 ) 'Her byginneth in presence the book cald pricke of conscience'. 'þe myȝt of the

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ff. 173r-179ra A treatise of the houses of the planets 'Here begynnethe the merueylous and sothefaste conynge of astrologye'. 'and barly litell and shorte þat yere'. English f. 179ra-b The Letting of the Moon 'The lettynge of the mone'. 'Nowe

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comendyd of wryters'. F. 118v - same hand - 'A defynityon of gentilyty'. F. 119r - same hand: 'gentilyte ys ye renowne of our auncesters for theyr bounty wch ys ye gyft of god...'; 'Tullyus Hostilius was discendid of pare

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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, 1863. Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiae), Berlin: Asher.

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of Gloucester Chronicle (IMEV 727 ) 'Fram the begynnyng of the world to tyme that now is' Imperfect Chronicle begins with the siege of Troy and ends imperfectly with the death of John. See Hudson 1969. ff. 170r-188v Chronicle

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Scribe of ff. 7r-86v and Scribe of ff. 87r-end: Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 350 240, LP 7391 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A late fifteenth-century manuscript of the Memoriale Credencium , a sophisticated manual of

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drȝete hym throw the ȝere of methus and drynkys and lething of blode and also to beware of perlus daies the which bene cleped ioues de fe'. 'In the monythe of ienyver al maner of swete wynes ben gode to

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Legendary: The Feast of Midwinter's Day ( IMEV 3336 ) 'þe feste of midewinteris dai is of muche pris'. 'Of wan ȝe desireþ so much to wite of to kninge'. ff. 173r-174v South English Legendary: The Feast of the Ascension