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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: i.520–2; Robinson no. 17 (pl. 222).
[1]
f. 32v
In þe xx ʒer of kyng edward þe þridde abbot thomas cudelyngton abbot of oseney by a chanon of hys oon sir andrew colesbourne [sexteyn þer interlined] þe svne of william of colesbourne and sibile his wyff vncle of isabele þe douʒtur and eyr of water gregory of watford and of joone [kynewardton interlined] hys wyf þe douʒtour of [on cecilie þe douʒtur of interlined] þis seyd william and sibilie …
f. 36
… had to þis seyd nicholas bysshopp in pees at wuche iiij day of september or vp þe [f. 36v] of þe natiuite of oure ladi anno xx …
‘De diuersis quereles erga dominum william wendouere abbatem oseney’ (f. 32v). Nicholas Bishop, De Diversis Querelis, a memoir of alleged wrongs committed by the Abbot of Oseney. IPMEP 381. Ed. S. B. Meech, ‘Nicholas Bishop: An Example of the Oxford Dialect of the Fifteenth Century’, PMLA 49 (1934) 443–59 (pp. 453–6)
Other texts: None.
[2]
f. 49
Vp seint jamis day anno viij r[egni] r[egis] henry sexti þis lettre of englych her vndur wryte was wryte as þus thomas i grete ʒow wel doyng ʒow to vndurstand þat yesterday i deliuered to sir iohn garsindon chanon qwesener of oseney þe bulle þat was direite to him from my mayster chauces in presence of john wodeward and þis same day …
f. 49v
… graunted to rach þe seruaunt of chauceys to be borwe for þe pees for this same thomas barton yremongere vp peyne of xx li euery of hem.
‘De securitate pacis ex causa predicta’; concludes with a memorandum in Latin. Copy of a letter in English from Michael Norton to Thomas Barton, dated St James Day (25 July) 8 Henry VI (1430), followed by Nicholas Bishop's notes on the dispute. Ed. Meech, ‘Nicholas Bishop’, pp. 456–7.
Other texts: Unique copy.
[3]
f. 259v
Knowiþ wel worþi maystres þorugh þe informacion of gerome alphey of hemford vat in þe ʒeere of oure lord a m iiij and xxxij in þe moneþ of september we shul haue a grete flood and grete deþ of pepull an uniuersalll clypse þe wyche shal seme lyke fyre or ell like bloode and shall dure fro iij aftur mydnyʒt tyll a xj of þe bell …
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