• CP.F.263

Participant: RichardChernock [Chernok] Role: witness Details: male Location: York, St Mary Bishophill (senior) (Yorkshire) Place(s): York, St Mary Bishophill (Senior) (Beata Maria super Bisshophill, Beata Maria super Bisshopphill) : ecclesiastical parish Location: York (Ebor') : city Location: Thornhill (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s):

• CP.F.262

[Farleton] Role: defence proctor Details: male; clerk Employment: proctor Participant: ChristopherTwisleton [Twyselton] Role: witness Details: male Employment: skinner (skynner) Location: York (Ebor') : undefined Participant: WilliamJohnson [Johnson] Role: witness Details: male; 25 Employment: cardmaker (cardemaker) Location: Doncaster, St George (YorkshireWestRiding)

• CP.F.223

male; 40 Location: Ackworth (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Ackworth (Akworth) : undefined Location: Pontefract (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Pontefract (Pontifract', Pontiffract') : township Location: Ropergate (Ropergate) : undefined Cannot identify Location: York, St Giles (Yorkshire) Place(s): York, St Giles (Sanctus Egidius) : ecclesiastical parish

• Coloured initial and musical notations on 4-line staves., Life of Thomas Becket (index Vie de Thomas Becket), in Anglo-Norman verse, followed by an Anglo-Norman crusade noted song ‘S’onques nus hom pour dure’ (ff. 14-14v); Anglo-Norman romance Guy of Warwick (index Gui de Warewic) (ff. 15-26)

formed by manuscripts of different date and origin and includes:'Gui de Warewic', romance in Anglo-Norman verse, with initials in red, last quarter of the 13th or 1st quarter of the 14th century (ff. 15-26v);Life of Saint Robert of Knaresborough, prose

• Text page with added notes., Life of Thomas Becket (index Vie de Thomas Becket), in Anglo-Norman verse, followed by an Anglo-Norman crusade noted song ‘S’onques nus hom pour dure’ (ff. 14-14v); Anglo-Norman romance Guy of Warwick (index Gui de Warewic) (ff. 15-26)

formed by manuscripts of different date and origin and includes:'Gui de Warewic', romance in Anglo-Norman verse, with initials in red, last quarter of the 13th or 1st quarter of the 14th century (ff. 15-26v);Life of Saint Robert of Knaresborough, prose

• Detail of a text page of St Albans's Annals, datable to 1428-1431 (ff. 100-120)., Chronicle, AD 1-1135 (ff. 34-61), with additions up to 1266 (ff. 61v-73)

Detail of a text page of St Albans's Annals, datable to 1428-1431 (ff. 100-120). The life of Thomas Becket in verse was composed c. 1184. It is based on one by Robert of Cricklade (d. c. 1174), prior of St.

• Decorated initial 'S'(icut) at the beginning of the first text, and birds, oak leaves, acorns and crowned knight in armour in the margins., Various religious and historical tracts (also known as 'Codex ruber' and 'Waltham Abbey Miscellany') including the 'Vita Haroldi' (ff. 1-24v); 'De inventione sancte crucis de Waltham' (also known as the 'Waltham Chronicle', ff. 43-62v), part 1; the Voyage of St Brendan (ff. 67-75v)

pp. 114-15).A terminus post quem is provided by a poem written in one of the original hands lamenting the death of the ninth abbot of Waltham, Richardof Hertford, who died in 1345 (ff. 38v-39).Some verses written in Middle English

• Decorated initial 'D'(e) with pen-flourishing including an oak leaf, at the beginning of a list of the relics given to Waltham abbey by Harold and others., Various religious and historical tracts (also known as 'Codex ruber' and 'Waltham Abbey Miscellany') including the 'Vita Haroldi' (ff. 1-24v); 'De inventione sancte crucis de Waltham' (also known as the 'Waltham Chronicle', ff. 43-62v), part 1; the Voyage of St Brendan (ff. 67-75v)

pp. 114-15).A terminus post quem is provided by a poem written in one of the original hands lamenting the death of the ninth abbot of Waltham, Richardof Hertford, who died in 1345 (ff. 38v-39).Some verses written in Middle English

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Prick of Conscience , the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and the Three Kings of Cologne . The mid fifteenth-century date of 1442 is indicated by the explicit of item 5, 'Thus endythe þe lyffe of iij kyngys of coleyne

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

and the names of recipients of copies of this Middle Hill edition. Other notes on f. iv, presumably by a member of the Fermor family, are taken from Warton's account of the manuscript ( The History of English Poetry ,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

p. 154. f. 178r-v Fifteen Joys of the Virgin 'Legitur...archiepiscopus viii gaudia'. Narrative of the vision of St. Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, concerning the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin. Latin ff. 178v-179r Memorial of St. George 'Salue miles nobilis'. Latin

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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 , London: Trustees of the British Museum, 2,