Harley MS 133

Contents:

ff. 1r-36v: Cuthbert Tunstall (b. 1474, d. 1559), Bishop of London [r. 1521-1530], ‘A booke of all the Spyrituall Benifites and Chaunteryes within London and the Dyocesse of the same’; beginning ‘Pleaseth it your grace to understande, that where the kinges highnes my sovereigne lorde kinge of England and of ffraunce defendour of Christes faythe and lorde of Irelande, by his gracious moste honorable letters, bearinge date the Tenthe daye of August in the xiiijth yeare of the reigne of my said sovereigne lorde and by certen instructons signed with his grasis hande, comaundinge me Cuthberte busshoppe of London his humble subiecte oratour and chappleyne, to move stirre and induce the spirituall persons of my Dyocesse of London, as well regulers as seculers, aswell exemptes as not exemptes excepte those whose names were conteined in a scedule to the said Instructions annexed’; ending ‘In wytnes of these premysses I the foresaid Cuthbert Busshopppe of London have set to my greate Seale, the xijth daye of November in the foresaid xiiijth yeare of the reigne of my said sovereigne lorde’ [15 November 1522].

The manuscript contains later two later additions:

ff. 1* and 37: fragmentary leaves of an English missal, written in the 15th century.