Burney MS 361

f. 146v: Barrel filled with a single tear

f. 146vb: Truce with God, made at St. Bernard's instance

f. 147: Bad godfather

f. 147: Service transferred from King of England to the Lord who can cure fevers

f. 147rb: Love-sick man goes on a pilgrimage by a priest's advice, and returns cured

f. 147rb: Penance of moving a stone, imposed by St. Hugh of Grenoble

f. 147v: Jew saved from devils by crossing himself

f. 147vb: Priest spits at each fresh sin which a penitent confesses, and the latter goes away in disgust,

f. 147vb: Dying priest will not let his wife come near him

f. 147vb: St. Benedict plunges into thorns

f. 148: Captive hermit spits his tongue at temptress

f. 148: Dead harlot stands up and bids her lovers look at her

f. 148: Pilgrim-knight dies on Mount of Olives

f. 148: The two funerals

f. 148rb: Quarrelsome nun's corpse half-burnt

f. 148v: Hermit throws his money at thieves

f. 148v: Philosopher throws gold into the sea

f. 148v: Gardener ceases alms-giving

f. 148vb: Monk says he is dead to the world

f. 148vb: Dead drunkard, devoted to St. Nicholas, seen in torment by an English monk

f. 148vb: Custodians of king's garden warned, against lepers (ends imperfectly as "Quod si facerent cum," with the catchwords "eo leprosi"

f. 149rb: Drunken priest falls asleep in a wood on his way to give communion to a sick man; the cattle stop and kneel before the Host as they pass. " Item quidam frater visitator ordinis eiusdem retulit."

f. 149rb: Witch's son is hanged for theft, but stays alive on the gallows for a year, his mother having sewn the Host in his shirt; at last she confesses, and he is cut down and the Host removed, and the body crumbles into dust.

f. 149rb: Heretic "transmarinis partibus" denies the Eeal Presence, and offers to prove his doctrine by submitting himself to the test of fire; at the first trial he invokes heaven, and a sudden storm quenches the flames; but next time a Franciscan named Leo places the Host on the pillar to which he is bound, and a storm-cloud again approaches, but disperses without any effect, so that the heretic is burnt

f. 150: Devil kneels to priest carrying the Eucharist to a sick man, bows to him as he returns. The sight of this converts a man "in transmarinis partibus," who has made a compact with the devil in order to recover his lost riches

f. 150rb: Knight in England, devoted to the Virgin, falls into mortal sin; he is ashamed to confess to his parish priest, but goes to London, where the devil disguised as a monk hears his confession in Westminster abbey, near the altar of St. Mary Magdalene; on his sickbed he is visited by the Virgin and SS. Peter and Mary Magdalene, who drive the devil away. Inc. "Beda in gestis Anglorum narrat."

f. 150rb: Dead woman appears to her son, a priest, with a fiery dragon coiled about her head and two toads at her breasts

f. 151: Sudden death of a maidservant who persists in over-adorning her mistress's hair f. 151: Youth near Northampton, proud of his curly hair (" nimis componebat capillos sues in modum volucri[s] quod dicitur Croc") is attacked in a wood by innumerable devils in the form of black dogs, and barely manages to reach home; he lies for a time as if dead, then cries "Croc, Croc, Croc," and bids his friends cut off his hair and fetch a priest before he dies

f. 151v: While Fr. Hugh of Gloucester is preaching, a matron murmurs that no heed need be given to these sons of peasants with their denunciations of finery; she goes mad the same day.

f. 151v: Vain lady near Cambridge dies during an interdict afterwards her corpse is dug up for re-interment, and is found with a serpent coiled round her head and a toad on her chest

f. 151vb: Toad found on tongue of "golden-tongued" advocate; his son leaves his inheritance and becomes a charcoal-burner, like Simon de Crepy

f. 151vb: St. Bernard cries "Thieves"

f. 152: Undutiful son punished by a toad clinging to his face; after two years he goes on a pilgrimage, and is delivered. Inc. "Magister Odo narravit." Expl."Frater Hugo de Hereford laycus audivit, qui vidit bufonem in facie eius."

f. 152rb: Woman near Lincoln curses her son, who has robbed her of the cloth for a new robe; one day, as he is riding home from Lincoln wearing the robe, a black cloud descends upon him, full of fiends, who seize him and carry him up to a great height and then drop him and his horse, both dead and on fire.

f. 152v: The girl who used to scold her mother, and whose corpse was dragged out of church by fiends

f. 152vb: The blaspheming boy who cried that Moors were coming for him

f. 153: Girl cursed by her mother, in the diocese of Worcester, is possessed by a devil, who torments her whenever she tries to say the Paternoster or Credo; she is freed at length by the help of one of the Worcester Friars

f. 153rb: Indigent woman devotes her three stepsons to the devil in exchange for food; he hangs them, and she then hangs herself in remorse; but her husband obtains their restoration to life by the help of the Virgin. Expl. "Frater Walterus narravit de London quod contigit in partibus transmarinis,"

f. 153rb: Usurer in France, oppressor of the poor, and backbiter, falls ill; his wife fetches a priest against his will, but he turns his face to the wall and dies unshriven; his wife persuades the priest to lie about it, and so obtains Christian burial for him, but he appears and bids his wife proclaim the truth and have his body dug up; after a third apparition she obeys, and the corpse is found all black, with a toad eating the tongue; the corpse is bound on the back of an aas, which carries it straight to the gallows

f. 154: Peter, servant of John de Wynthorp, is shown by the Virgin, in a vision, the furnace into which he will be plunged if he persists in maligning the Franciscans f.

154rb: Woman comes to communion while cherishing rancour against a neighbour; St. Gregory protests, but at last gives her the Host, saying "Judicet Dominus de te iustum indicium." She is cloven in two, and her soul is carried off by devils. Inc. "Beatus Gregorius narrat."

f. 154rb: Knight embraced by the Crucifix for showing mercy to his captured enemy on Good Friday

f. 154v: Knight vows abstinence on Wednesdays for a good death; he is murdered and decapitated, and his head is hidden; but cries from it are heard by shepherds, who find it and join it to the body; he receives absolution and communion, and then crumbles into dust

f. 154vb: Poor widow's reasons for praying for oppressive lord: first, because his grandfather was bad, his father worse, and himself worse again, so she feared his son would be worst of all: secondly, because he would have to answer for her goods, which he had seized, at the Day of Judgment; thirdly, because everyone had a tormentor, and she preferred him to the devil

f. 155: Vision of Fursey from Bede's History (iii. 19). Abridged

f. 155v: Two men condemned to death as thieves assure their confessor that they have never been thieves, but only frequenters of taverns f. 155vb: Devil in guise of a huntsman with black hounds enters a tavern in Scotland, and binds one of the inmates with a fiery chain; his friends are just able to rescue him, and to take him to the Franciscans at Berwick for confession. Expl. "Qui vidit testimonium perhibuit."

f. 156: Tame stag in England, accustomed to eat bread and drink beer, falls into a pit when drunk, and breaks his leg; he refuses beer ever after

f. 156: King in Scotland has a fool whom birds and beasts frequent so long as he preserves his chastity

f. 156: Ape filches food daily from his rich master's table and gives it to a poor girl, until she is deflowered, and then he tries to kill her.

f. 156rb: Lady "in partibus transmarinis" tells a Franciscan that in her girlhood she used to see the Child-Christ in the priest's hands at the Elevation; but that she never had this vision after her marriage

f. 156v: Woman thinks it lucky to meet a dog, unlucky to meet a priest; one day to her joy she meets a black dog, but it springs at her and kills her. f. 156v: Bees enshrine and adore the Host, which a man has put in his bee- hive on a witch's advice

f. 156v: Four reasons why cross is to be venerated.

f. 156v: Four verses on the wounds of Christ

f. 157: Meaning of weather signs on the feast of the conversion of St Paul: Clara dies Pauli bona tempora dénotat anni; Si nix vel pluvia, désignat tempora cara; Si fuerint venti, geņerantur prelia genti; Si fuerint nebule, periunt animalia quaeque