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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.126–30; Baker & Ringrose pp. 200–6; Robinson no. 25, pls 169 (a) (b).
[1]
f. 76*v (an inserted slip, recto blank)
I a de b boteler coke or other officer etcetera promitt trewly and swere upon theise holy gospelles that as longe as i am in this office i shall be trewe kyende and obediente to the howse of seynt albon to my lorde and to my maysters the which be ordeynede be him and i shall doo no frawde ne falcehede …
… and i shall doo and fulfill all other thynges that longith to me or to myne office so god me helpe and by this boke
s. xv English oath for household officers of St Albans Abbey. Note also the rubricated instruction at the foot of f. 76, after the Latin text, ‘Seke this othe in englissh in the litell leff at this marke *, with the corresponding mark given on f. 76*v. Printed in A. E. Levett, Studies in Manorial History (Oxford, 1938), p. 106 note 1 (English).
[B6]
[A38]
[2]
f. 282
Letter in English from ‘Jo. abbot of seynt albons’ to ‘þe bysshop of Salsybury’, by a later (s. xvi?) hand.
s. xiv ex. Robinson notes that ff. 29–149 constitute the St Albans Formulary, copied between 1382–91; some of the material on ff. 152–77 may be dated after 1385; ff. 5–25 contain a table of contents (s. xv).
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