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ff. 1-10v. [Old Tenures]. Incipit: //Tenir en pure villenage est a faire tout. Explicit: a sa partie que a luy fuist aliene et si//. French. Old Tenures, beginning defectively, continuing beyond the 1521 Pynson edition with a section on Rent annuell and a series of short definitions, Suyt service through Tenauntz en comen, which ends defectively. On ff. ii, notes, s. XVII, in Latin referring to another legal text by page number; once a separate sheet, evidently tipped in after the volume entered the Bridgewater collection: a note on the verso, "Loose leaf in T 3 8," misreading the early Bridgewater pressmark, "I.3/8.". f. 11. [Carol]. Incipit: hey noyney I wyll loue our ser Iohn & I loue eny/ o lord so swett ser Iohn dothe kys/ at euery tyme when he wolde pley. Explicit: with praty plesure For to assay/ Furres of the Fynest with other thynges. English. IMEV 2494. R. H. Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford 1955) 20-21 from this manuscript, and R. L. Greene, ed., The Early English Carols (Oxford 1977) 278 from this manuscript. The burden is repeated in the margin of f. 73v in a different form, "hey troly loly hey troly loly I must loue our sur Iohn & I loue eny o lord.". f. 11v; f. 12r-v blank but for indenture. [Sir Thomas Wyatt] [Poem]. Incipit: I must go walke þe woed so wyld/ & wander here & there/ in dred & dedly fere. Explicit: but when your bewty I do thynk/ & all For lowe off on. English. IMEV 1333. Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics, pp. 14-15 with the 4 stanzas from this manuscript; stanzas 1-2, 4-5 of the 15 stanzas in K. Muir and P. Thomson, eds., Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt (Liverpool 1969) 150-52. Stanza 1 repeated on f. 108v, stanzas 2 and 4 repeated on f. 107v, and the first 4 lines of stanza 2 also on f. 109. ff. 13-132; f. 132v blank except for pentrials. [Sir Thomas Littleton] Tenures. Incipit: Tenant en Fee simple est celuy qi ad terres ou tenementz a tener a luy et a sez heures a toutz iours. Explicit: plus tost aviendra a la certeynte et a la conusaunce de la ley. Lex plus laudatur quando racione probatur. Expliciunt nove tenure secundum Lyteltoun. French. T. E. Tomlins, ed., Lyttleton, his treatise of tenures in French and in English (London 1841).
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