County Rivers, England and Wales - west coast from north to south Transcript fl hogwayn Icon description river Icons river Description Appearances red ink, faded, damaged parchment Etymology probably OW og, 'fast, lively' + banw, 'young pig' Translation Earlier editors
building, castle Icons castle building Description Appearances faded Etymology ONb scip + tun, 'sheep farm' Translation Earlier editors skipton (OS 1935, Parsons) Early Maps scipto(n) (Angliae Figura) Overwritten no Attested spelling Skip-, Skypton(e) 1120 Dugd vi, 1120-1260 YCh vii (freq)
County Bedfordshire Transcript sheford Icon description single building Icons building Description Appearances Etymology OE sceap, 'sheep' + ford, 'ford' Translation Earlier editors OS 1875 misread sheford as Stretford (Parsons) Early Maps Overwritten yes Attested spelling Sheford 1276 Ass, 1297 Ipm
large castle Icons castle island Description Appearances Etymology OE sceap, 'sheep' + ieg, 'island' Translation Earlier editors Shephay (Gough). Sheppey castle was entirely rebuilt in the reign of Edward III and in 1366 its name was changed to Queenborough in
Detail of a miniature of sheep. This is a 'Second Family' bestiary; see James; Payne p. 15. Numerous (112) miniatures in brown, green, and red, on alternately blue and red backgrounds. Small initials in red. Bestiary Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681,
by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to
calendar pages with tinted drawings in colours of the labours of the months and the signs of the zodiac, and various pictures and emblems representing saints' days and other feasts (ff. 5-16). Drawings in colours of notable events; written above
drawing water and a pig being slaughtered. The date 1582 is inscribed in gold in a roundel on f. 15 and on blocks of stone on ff. 27, 28. 22 full page miniatures of alchemical subjects in colours and gold
in colours and gold at the beginning of Psalms 38, 68, 97, 101, 109 and other divisions and at Lauds, Prime, Terce, Vespers and Compline of the Hours of the Virgin, and other divisions, including the Penetential Psalms and the
sheep or oxe swelle That any worm hath ete or worm y stonge Take water of that welle and wassh his tonge And it is hool anon and forthermore Of pokkes and of Scabbe and euery sore Shal euery
a Chauntrye for soules And ran to Londoū , vn to Seint Poules And leet his sheep , encombred in the Myre He sette noght. his benefice to hyre By his clennesse , how þt his sheep sholde lyue Wel
parysh moche and lyte Vpon his feet and in his hand a staffe This noble ensample to his sheep he yaffe That firste he wroght and afterward he taght Oute of the gospell tho wordes he kaught. And this figure
Ther was enclosid rip and sad corage And in gret reuerence and charite Hir olde poore fadre fostred she A few sheep spynnyng on felde she kepte She wolde nat ben ydel til she slepte And whan she whom ward
the drought and by the Reyne The yeldyng of his seed and of his greyne His lordes sheep his neet and his deyrye. His swyn his hors his stoore and his pultrye Was holly in his Reues gouernyngã And by
in [to, interl.] shroudes: as I a sheep were." Dowell is headed: "Passus octanus de visione. Et incipit inquisicio prima de Dowell" (f. 36). Dobet and Dobest have no headings but "Passus xv." and " Passus xixus." respectively (ff. 69,