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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.131–2.
[A39]
[A40]
[1]
f. 164
Legal text concerning inheritance rights. Begins: ‘Twa sisteris has ane heretage as rithtus airis the tane take ane bond the tother take an fre man scho þat has ye fre man sal haue all the heretage forthy þat na bond may have heretage nor fredom wiþout his lordes will and þe bond gettes an soun wiþ his wif the bond deis þe wif sal recuver þe heretage throw writt of resonable …’
[2]
f. 164v
Gif foure sisteris be mot be a breif of ryt may may ilkane haue essouʒe of maledeli[..] and twane of languour na name bot ane iij languour the qulk yt […] and for …
f. 164v
… land and na ma essbuʒsis of maledelit may be mad for thair begynnis ye libill cape and not ye gret caip.
Short legal text concerning women's property rights with the heading (on f. 164) ‘Of essouʒe of foure sisteris in numbre’, the text following on f. 164v.
[3]
f. 264
﹛H﹜ere techis wigeis in his buk of chevalrie how batail wiþin listis sal be gouernit it is to wit yat a king or a prince havand powir of baitel or ane depute for ane of yame sall sit iuges in ane scaffald aboue ye entre of ye listis and gyf ye appelour and ye defendur be undur ye regimen and gouernaunce of syndry kinges or princes hauand to yon kynges yare allegiaunce …
f. 266
… not withstanding ye iuges and his just consale sittand in jugement and for ye quhim ay cars sall falle gif ay half and nom al of wapeins left with hors.
According to the incipit this is an extract from the ‘Buk of Chevalrie’ by ‘Wigeis’ (Vegetius); other MS versions entitle this extract ‘The Maner of Battale within listes’ citing De bello campestri, but no such works by Vegetius are known unless De Rei Militari is meant. Ed. (not from this MS) by G. Neilson, Trial by Combat (Glasgow, 1890), pp. 226–32. The text is clearly related to the regulations for trial by battle in the Court of Chivalry, issued in the name of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, Constable of England in the reign of Richard II.
Other texts: Neilson cites 3 other MSS: NLS Advocates A.7.25; NLS Advocates A.1.28 (the Monynet MS) ff. 375–78; BL Harley 4700.
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