Royal MS 11 E I

11 E. 1

WILLIAM LYNDWOOD, Constitutiones Provinciales (cf. 9 A. V, 9 A. XIII, 11 A. XIV, 11 C. VIII). Text, with the full commentary in the margin, dedication, and alphabetical table as in 11 C. VIII; but the tabula, as in the printed editions, has here the colophon (f. 26) 'Explicit tabula compendiosa super librum qui intitulatur Prouincialis compilata per Willelmum de Talia (sic, for Tilia) nemore, completa in festo conuersionis sancti Pauli anno dom. milesimo quatercentesimo tricesimo tercio'. Colophon to the text, 'Explicit liber qui intitulatur Prouincialis editus a Willelmo Lyndewode vtriusque iurisdoctore'. The list of constitutions arranged under the archbishops follows at f. 279 b.

Attached to f. 1 are three paper documents, viz.:-(a) Bond by Thomas Maulhurst and Robert Wilson, of St. Albans, yeomen, to William Spencer of the monastery of St. Albans, 6 July, 1508. On the back, judgement of Joh. Rothebury, archdeacon of St. Albans Abbey, in a matrimonial suit between Roger Roys and Margaret Wythe, of S. Stephen's parish, St. Albans. f. iii;-(b) Pleadings in a suit between William Cradocke, of King's Norton, co. Worc., and Thomas Gilbert, on a promise to pay money at Yvenge [Ivinghoe, co. Bucks?] in 1490. f. iv;-(c) Pleadings in a suit between Anthony [Zouch], Prior of Wallingford, and the perpetual vicar of Shephall [co. Hertf.], n. d. [before 1497]. On the back, petition of Elizabeth Sylkstone for divorce from Thomas Smyth, of Barnet, co. Hertf. f. v.

Vellum (except ff. 1 and iii-v); ff. v + 280. 17 in. x 12 in. XV cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (iii¹⁰, xiv⁴, xxxvi²), with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'rei reuerencia'. Initials in red, flourished. Probably belonged to St. Albans Abbey. On f. 1 b is the name Cowley (cf. 6 D. VII, 10 D. VIII) and motto 'Qui timet deum faciet bona'. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1191'; cat of 1666, f. 9 or 9 b; CMA. 8417.