A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

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A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

Publication

London,: Trübner,

1886.

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"A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AJD3529.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024. content_copy

Contents

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• Part 1.—Poetry,INCLUDING A FEW PUZZLES AND SAYINGS.
  • SOME OLD PUZZLES AND SAYINGS.
    • prologue
    • [Sayings.]
    • [Different positions.]
    • [Five puzzles.]
    • [Daily Rules.]
  • RULES FOR CONDUCT.
  • FORTUNE IN LIFE TOLD BY THE CASTING OF DICE.
  • FRAGMENTS BY LYDGATE.
  • THE CATECHISM OF ADRIAN AND EPOTYS.
  • PLAY OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC.
  • THE FIFTEEN SIGNS BEFORE DOOMSDAY.
  • ST. PATRICK'S PURGATORY AND THE KNIGHT SIR OWEN.
  • THE LIFE OF ST. MARGARET.
  • PRAYERS.
  • DIRECTIONS FOR A TRENTAL.
  • A CAROL OF THE ANNUNCIATION.
• Part 2.—Manorial Law.INCLUDING FORMS OF GRANTS OF LAND, ETC.
  • THE FELSON BOOK.
    • This is the felson booke for the Est Comonne of Stuston as apeurth her aftur, that is to weet:—
    • This is the felsson bocke of the West Comon of Stuston as apeurth her after that is to weete—
    • This is the bille of the Felson in Stuston.
  • THE TASK BOOK.
    • Thys ys the boke ffor the holle Taske of Sturston.
    • Thrandston.
  • CHURCH DUTIES.
    • Thes be the dutes longing to the Cherche of Stuston as apeurth her aftur—
  • LEGAL FORMS OF PRIVATE CHARTERS, BONDS, &c.
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  • THE ARTICLES OF ENQUIRY AT A COURT BARON AND A COURT LEET.
    • THE CORTE BARUNE.
    • ARTICULI LETE.
• Part 3.—Private Accounts.
  • ACCOUNT OF (?) ROBT. MELTON OR . . . KEMPE FOR EXPENSES OVER HIS MOTHER AND BROTHER A.D. 1499 TO 1503. [A.D. 1499.]
  • ROBERT MELTON'S ACCOUNTS: PURCHASES. [A.D. 1502.]
  • ROBERT MELTON'S ACCOUNTS: DEBTORS.
  • ROBT. MELTON'S ACCOUNTS: PURCHASES.
  • R. MELTON'S ACCOUNT: WITH MISTRESS FROXMER.
  • AGREEMENT AND QUITTANCE [Between Roger Page of Scole and Robert Melton of Stuston, 31st May, 1504, for the delivery of 36 coombs of barley to the latter.] [A.D. 1504].
  • A MEDYSON FOR THE ZELOW JAWDYS.