Ll.1.11

Summary

Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.6–7; Baker & Ringrose pp. 430–1.

[1]

f. 33

Atte v s the sise the ferthyng loffe weythe xvij unces and demi atte v s vj d the sise the farthyng loffe weythe xvj unces atte vj s the sise the farthyng loffe weythe xiiij unces iij quarters atte vj s vj d the sise the ferthyng loffe weythe xiij unces iij quarters …

f. 33

… weythe viij unces demi ij d ferthy[ng] atte xj s vj d the sisse the farthyng loffe weythe viij unces a quarter.

‘The sise of london’. An assize of bread. IPMEP 406; Wells Rev. 10:3901 [429].

Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 3 MSS, to which IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. Balliol Col 354 [25]– [26] adds BL Lansdowne 762 f. 2v. For another similar text already indexed see IMEP 4 indexing BodL Douce 16 [1].

[2]

f. 33

Fyrst half turn and undo yt agayn flower iii forth the fyrst man and the second folowe flower and roll into other placys hole turn flower and then roll into other placys. ‘The howe of the howse’. Baker & Ringrose (p. 430) note that this is the earliest description of the ‘howe’ or hove-dance, as performed in the inns of court, especially at Christmas.

s. xv.