Mm.3.29

Summary

Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.206–8.

[1]

f. 4–6v

A table of contents to the volume with the rubric heading ‘The kalender of this presente booke’; lists seventy-three entries.

[2]

f. 7

The moste fortunable blessid stronge and myghti edwarde kynge of england and of fraunce bi the disposicion of the dyuine poure departid from this presente life the vjth daie of junn the yere of owre lorde god ml ccc lxxvij and in the lj yer of his raigne after whom succeded richarde the seconde son …

f. 27

… to departe the whiche was defuse to be obtayned nat wythstandyng it was graunted and eueri man departid.

‘The proces done or made at the coronacion of kyng richarde the secunde after the deth of kynge edward the iijde after the conquest’ (f. 1); ‘Thus endeth the solempnite of the coronacion of kynge richarde the secunde after his conqueste’ (f. 27). Account of the coronation of Richard II, translated from the official record Processus factus ad coronationem Domini Regis Anglie Ricardi Secundi post conquestum anno regni sui primo. Wells Rev. 8:2938–39 [89].

Other texts: See Ee.4.37 [3]. For a copy of the Latin text see BL Add 29901 ff. 1–12v, 13–16v.

[3]

f. 27v

The erle marshall ought to haue the kyngis horse with all the harneis that ys on hym and the quenes palfrey when thei light at the place where they shal be crownid therle ought to be alweys nerest the kynge at his coronacion and oughte to holde the croune in his hande and when tyme ys he shall set the croune on the kyngis hedde …

f. 35v

… of inferiour religious parsons to take after the rate of their tenure and of other religious parsons that holdeth but of almes to haue nothynge.

‘Thes ben the rightis belongyng to the cunstable and marshall of englande’ (f. 27v). For another copy see [8] below. Perhaps a translation of ‘Officium marescali et constabularii Anglie tam tempore pacis quam guerre’ which is composed in Latin and French.

[A85]

[4]

f. 37