This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com UK 905.01 EAR Child-marriages, divorces, and rati HARVARD LAW LIBRARY AGM2182 3 2044 038 015 566 1317 в3.лJan.1925 L A I CADEM HARVARDIAN A O L S TVE E W M AS T TAS TSO N Y лог HARVARD LAW LIBRARY Received Aug22.1924 131 Bindin Early Chi Divorces, a In the Dioce DEPOSITIONS IN TRIALS 1. Child-Marriage 2. Trothplights. 3. Adu 6. Wills. 7. 8. Cland Entries from the EDITEDFROMTHEMS.WRIT MADETHEIRDEPOSITION FREDERICK TRINITYHALL,CA PUBLISHTFORTHE BYKEGANPAUL PATERNOSTERI franchi >< Early English Text Society. Original Series, 108. Prof.Kovalefsby withDrB.'sbindregards Child- Marriages, Soft.1894. Divorces, and Ratifications, &c. In the Diocese of Chester, A.D. 1561-6. DEPOSITIONS IN TRIALS IN THE BISHOP'S COURT, CHESTER, CONCERNING 1. Child-Marriages, Divorces, and Ratifications. 2. Trothplights. 3. Adulterics. 4. Affiliations. 5. Libels. 6. tills. 7. Miscellaneous Matters. 8. Clandestine Marriages. ALSO Entries from the Mayors' Books, Chester, A.D. 1558-1600. EDITED FROM THE MS. WRITTEN IN COURT WHILE THE WITNESSES MADE THEIR DEPOSITIONS, AND FROM THE MAYORS' BOOKS, BY FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL, M.A., TRINITY HALL, CAMBRIDGE; HON. DR. PHIL. BERLIN. LONDON: PUBLISHT FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY BY KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING-CROSS ROAD. 1897. Price Fifteen Shillings. Early English Text Society. F989 Committee of Management: Director: DR. FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL, M.A. Treasurer: HENRY B. WHEATLEY, Esq. Hon. Sec.: W. A. DALZIEL, Esq., 67 VICTORIA ROAD, FINSBURY PARK, N. Hon.Sec. for America: PROF. F.J. CHILD, Harvard Coll., Cambr.,Mass., U.S.A. H. HUCKS GIBBS, M.A. PROF. NAPIER, M.A., Ph.D. PROF. E. KÖLBING, Ph.D. EDWARD B. PEACOCK, Esq. S. L. LEE, B.A. REV.PROF.WALTERW.SKEAT, LITT.D. REV.PROF. J.RAWSONLUMBY,D.D. DR. 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Members are asktto send their two- orthree-years'subscrip tionsforbothSeriesatonceinadvance. The Original Series Texts for 1894 are-No. 102. Part I ofDr. R. vonFleischhacker's editionoftheenglishtLanfranc'sCirurgie,about1400A.D.,a treatiseperhapsmorevaluable forDictionary purposes thananyyet issued bythe Society, which takes upto Chaucer's deaththewholeclassofsurgicalandmedicalwords(besidesmanyothersofcommonspeech) whichwebeforehadonlyfromtheblack-lettersofQueenElizabeth'stime. No. 103,isProf. Napier'seditionofa12th-centuryHomilyontheLegendoftheCross, with an Introduction onthedifferent Legends about it, anincomplete Chester Hymnto the Virgin ofthe 13th century, andashortPaperonthesoftandhardg'softheOrmulumMS., withafacsimile. The Extra Series Texts for 1894 are No. LXV, the 3rd and last Part ofSir Bevis of Hamton, editedbyProf. Kölbing, Ph.D., and No. LXVI, Lydgate's and Burgh's Secrees of Philisoffres, editedbyRobertSteele, B.A., Lydgate'slastandunfinishtwork. For1895,the first Text ofthe Original Series is No. 104, Part I of Mr. Gollancz's re editionofTheExeterBook, fromtheunique MS., a collection ofthe choicestAnglo-Saxon lyric poetry,with amodern Englishtranslation. The secondisPartI ofthePrymer or LayFolks'Prayer-Book, fromtheMS.ab. 1420A.D.,intheCambr. Univ. Libr., ed. byMr. Hy. Littlehales, with two leaves of Facsimiles. This forms a valuable portion ofthe Society's Pre-Reformationvernacular Liturgical Series, undertaken onthe recommendation ofthelateCanonSimmons. TheExtraSeriesTextsfor 1895 aretwo proseRomancesfrom uniqueMSS., about1500 A.D.,englishtfromFrenchoriginals: TheThreeKings' Sons (ofFrance, Scotland,England), PartI, thetext, ed. Dr. F. J. Furnivall; Melusine, Pt. I, the text, ed. A. K. Donald, B.A. TheOriginal-SeriesTextsfor1896areboth dialectal: No.106, RichardMisyn's-hewas PriorofLincoln-englishingsin1434 and 1435 of Richard Rolleof Hampole'sFireofLove andMendingofLife,editedbytheRev.Rt. Harvey, M.A., HeadmasteroftheCorkGrammar School;-thisText, tho notinapure dialect, is interestingforforms like sarif, forserve, &c.; and No. 107, The English Conquest ofIreland, 1166-85, two parallel-texts ofabout 1425and1440, ofwhichthe earlierhasnowandthendyng, tynge, forthing, &c., edited by Dr.Furnivall. TheExtra-SeriesTextsfor1896willdoubtlessbetheSecondPartoftheproseRomance ofMelusine-Introduction, with ten facsimiles of the best woodblocks ofthe old foreign black-lettereditions,Glossary,&c.,byA.K. Donald, B.A.; and aneweditionofthefamous Early-English Dictionary (English and Latin), Promptorium Parvulorum, from the Win chesterMS., ab. 1440 A.D. inthis, the Editor,theRev. A. L. Mayhew, M.A., willfollow andprinthisMS. notonlyinits arrangementofnounsfirst, andverbs second, underevery letterofthe Alphabet, but also in its giving ofthe flexions ofthewords. The Society's editionwillthusbethefirstmodernonethatreallyrepresentsits original, apointonwhich Mr.Mayhew'sinsistancewillmeetwiththesympathyofallourMembers. For1897, theOriginal-Series Textsare, No. 108, Child-Marriages and-Divorces, Troth plights, Adulteries, Affiliations, Libels, Wills, Miscellanea, Clandestine Marriages, Deposi tions in Trials in the Bishop's Court, Chester, A.D. 1561-6, with Entriesfrom the Chester Mayors' Books,1558-1600, ed. Dr.F.J.Furnivall,-amostcuriousvolume, fullofthesocial life ofits time -and No. 109, Queen Elizabeth's Englishings ofBoethius de Consolatione, Plutarch's DeCuriositate, and part ofHorace, DeArtePoetica, editedfromtheuniqueMS. (a portion in the Queen's own hand) in the Public Record Office, London, by Miss C. Pemberton, withaFacsimile, andanoteontheQueen'suseofiforlonge. TheExtra-Series Texts for1897willprobablybe Dr. Norman Moore'sre-edition ofThe BookoftheFoundation ofSt. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, fromthe unique MS. ab. 1425, whichgives an accountof theFounder, Rahere, andthemiraculous cureswroughtat the Hospital;-Lydgate's Assembly ofthe Gods, ed. Dr. Oscar L. Triggs, and The Craft ofNombrynge, with other of the earliest englisht Treatises on Arithmetic, edited by R. Steele, B.A., or AlexanderScott's Poems, 1568, from the unique Edinburgh MS., ed. A. K. Donald, B.A. During1892,twounexpectedsourcesofhelptotheSocietysprangup. First, Mr. Henry Littlehalesof BexleyHeath, whohadprinteda MS. oftheEnglish Prymer, ab. 1400A.D., kindlyofferdtocopy, and payforthesetting, not onlyoftheCambridge UniversityMSof thePrymer,ab. 1425A.D., butalsoofaseriesofextractsfrom theRochesterDiocesan Reg isters, illustratingthereligious conditionandsociallifeofthediocese. Mr. Littlehaleshas likewise copied, andwill editforthe Society,the veryinterestingsetof Accountsof Prior MooreofWorcester, 1518-35, besides ThePoreCaitiff,&c, &c. Thesecondpromiseofhelpcame,mostgratifyingly,fromtheUniversityofChicago. Two ProfessorsintheEnglishDepartmentthere,Mr. MacClintockand Mr.OscarTriggs-withthe 4 Textspreparing. Texts ofboth Series for 1898-9. Deguilleville. assent oftheir Principal, Dr. Harper-agreed to edit and print at the Chicago University Press,twoEarlyEnglishTextstobeissuedjointlybytheUniversityandtheE.E.T. Society, the Societypaying for itselectrotypes. Prof. MacClintock chose the theological collection ofJohn Lacyof Newcastle, A.D. 1434 (see p. 10 below), and Prof. Triggs chose Lydgate's AssemblyoftheGods. ThelatteroftheseisnowatpressinChicago. SuchreliefastheE. E.T. Soc. getsfrom theabove-named helperswillbedevoted toits Reprinting Fund. The out-of-print Texts for 1866 are greatly wanted by members and collectorstocompletetheirsetsoftheSociety'spublications. An urgent appeal is herebymade to Membersto increase thelist of Subscribers tothe E. E. Text Society. ItisnothinglessthanascandalthattheHellenicSocietyshould have nearly1000members, whiletheEarlyEnglishTextSocietyhasonlyabout300! The Original-Series Texts for 1898 and 1899 will be chosen from books already at press: PartII ofthe Minor Poems ofthe Vernon MS., edited byDr. F. J. Furnivall; Mr. Gollancz's re-edited Exeter-Book-Anglo-Saxon Poems from the unique MS. in Exeter Cathedral-PartII; Dr. Bruce's Introduction to TheEnglishConquestofIreland, Part II ; Dr. Furnivall's edition ofthe Lichfield Gilds, whichis all printed, andwaits onlyfor the Introduction,thatProf. E. C. K. Gonnerhaskindlyundertakentowriteforthebook. Prof. Mead has sentto pressthe completionofthe proseMerlin,forwhichthe Societyhasbeen looking in vainfrom its Treasurer since 1870. Miss Mary Bateson has at press George Ashby'sActivePolicyofaPrince, &c., fromtheuniqueMS, A.D. 1463. Mr. Utleyis home fromRoumania, and promises tofinishLyndesay's Works this year. Dr. G. Herzfeld's re editionoftheAnglo-SaxonMartyrology is all in type. PartIIofDr. Holthausen's Vices andVirtuesneedsonlyitsGlossary. Mr.Steelehasintype,besidestheearliestTreatiseon Arithmetic,englishtfromJohannes de SacroBosco, two prose englishings oftheSecreta Secretorum from MSS. at Lambeth, the second ofwhichisveryrich in newwords. AversionbyJames Yonge in 1428, made for theEarl ofOrmonde, hasbeen copiedfromitsRawlinsonMS. atOxford, and collated with thelaterLambeth MS. Allthreeversionsdifferwidely. TheTexts for the Extra Series in1898 and 1899willbe chosenfromTheThreeKings' Sons, Part II, the Introduction &c. by Dr. Leon Kellner; The Towneley Plays, re-edited fromthe unique MS. by Mr. George England and A. W. Pollard, M.A.; Part II of The ChesterPlays,re-editedfrom theMSS., with afullcollation oftheformerlymissingDevon shire MS., by Mr. G. England (at press); the Parallel-Text ofthe onlytwo MSS. ofthe Owl and Nightingale, edited by Mr. G. F. H. Sykes (at press); Hoccleve's englishing of De Regimine Principum, 1411-12, ard RobertofBrunne's Handlyng Synne, edited by Dr. Furnivall; Deguilleville'sPilgrimageoftheLifeofMan, threeproseversions-twoEnglish, one French-edited by G. N. Currie, M.A. Some ofthese Texts will be ready in 1894. Members aretherefore askt to send Advance Subscriptions in 1894, for 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898, inorderthatthe 1895-8 books maybe issued tothem as soonastheeditionsare finisht. The Society's experiencehas shownthatEditors must betakenwhen theyarein the humourforwork. Allreal Students and furtherers ofthe Society's purpose willbe ready to push-on theissue ofTexts. Those Members who care only a guinea a year(or # P canaffordonlythatsum)forthehistoryofourlanguage andournation'sthought, willnot 5 be hurtby those who care more, getting theirbooks in advance; onthe contrary, they 7E willbebenefited, as each successive year's workwillthenbereadyforissue onNewYear's 1S Day. Membersare asktto realise the fact that the Societyhas now50 years'workon its - Lists, at its present rate ofproduction,-and thatthere is from 100 to 200 more years' workto comeafterthat. The year2000will not seefinishtalltheTextsthattheSociety oughttoprint. Mr.G. N. Currieispreparing aneditionofthe 15thand16thcenturyProseVersionsof Guillaumede Deguilleville's Pilgrimage ofthe Life ofMan, withtheFrenchproseversion by Jean Gallopes, from Mr. Henry Hucks Gibbs's MS., Mr. Gibbs having generously promistto paythe extracostof printingtheFrenchtext, and engraving one ortwoofthe illuminationsinhis MS. Guillaume de Deguilleville, monk ofthe Cistercian abbey ofChaalis,inthediocese of Senlis,wrotehisfirstversePelerinaigedel'Hommein1330-1 whenhewas36.¹ Twenty-five (orsix)yearsafter,in 1355, he revised his poem, andissuedasecondversionofit,andthis istheonlyonethathasbeenprinted. Oftheproserepresentativeofthefirstversion,13301, aproseEnglishing, about1430A.D.,waseditedbyMr. AldisWrightfortheRoxburgheClub in1869,from MS. Ff.5.30intheCambridgeUniversityLibrary. Othercopiesofthisprose English are in theHunterian Museum, Glasgow, Q. 2. 25; Univ. Coll. and CorpusChristi, Oxford ; andtheLandCollectionintheBodleian, no. 740. AcopyintheNortherndialect is MS. G.21, inSt.John'sColl., Cambridge, andthisistheMS. whichwillbeeditedbyMr. SidneyJ. Herrtagefor theE. E. TextSociety. TheLaud MS. 740 wassomewhatcondenst andmodernised, in the17th century, into MS. Ff. 6. 30,in the Cambridge UniversityLib 1Hewasbornabout1295. SeeAbbéGoUJET's Bibliothequefrançaise,Vol.IX,p.73-4.-P.M. اجایکرکےہماکےھجم 2These3MSS.havenotyetbeencollated,butarebelievedtobeallofthesameversion. Anglo-Saxon Psalters. MoreMoneywanted. Saints' Lives. 5 rary:11 "The Pilgrime orthePilgrimage of Man in thisWorld,"copied byWill. Baspoole, whose copy"wasverbatimwrittenbyWalterParker, 1645, and from thencetranscribed by G. G. 1649; andfrom thence by W. A. 1655." This last copymayhave been read by, or itsstoryreportedto, Bunyan, and mayhave beenthegroundworkofhisPilgrim'sProgress. It will be edited by Mr. Currie for the E. E. T. Soc., its text running under the earlier English, asinMr. Herrtage'seditionoftheGestaRomanorumforthe Society. In February 1464,2 Jean Gallopes-a clerk of Angers, afterwards chaplain to John, Duke of Bedford, RegentofFrance-turnedDeguilleville'sfirstversePelerinaigeintoaprosePèlerinagedelavie humaine. Bythekindness of Mr. Hy. HucksGibbs, asabovementiond, Gallopes'sFrench textwillbeprintedoppositetheearlyprosenorthernEnglishingintheSociety'sedition. TheSecondVersionofDeguilleville'sPelerinaigedel'Homme,A.D. 1355or-6,wasenglisht inverse byLydgate in 1426. Of Lydgate's poem, the larger part isin the Cotton MS. VitelliusC. xiii(leaves2-308). This MS.leaves outChaucer'senglishingof Deguilleville's ABCorPrayertotheVirgin, ofwhichthesuccessivestanzasstartwithA, B,C,andrunall thro'thealphabet; andithas2gaps, ofwhichmost ofthesecond canbe fild upfromthe endoftheotherimperfectMS. Cotton, TiberiusAvii. Therestofthestopgapsmustbegot from the original French in Harleian 4399,* and Additional 22,9375 and 25,5946 in the BritishMuseum. Lydgate'sversionwillbeeditedinduecoursefortheSociety. Besideshis firstPelerinaigede l'hommeinitstwoversions, Deguillevillewroteasecond, 66'del'amesepareeducorps,"andathird, "denostreseigneurIesus." Ofthesecond,aprose Englishingof 1413, ThePilgrimageoftheSowle(perhaps in partbyLydgate), existsinthe Egerton MS. 615,7 at Hatfield, Cambridge (Univ. Kk. 1. 7, Caius), Oxford (Univ. Coll. and Corpus),andinCaxton'sedition of1483. Thisversionhas'somewhatofaddicions'as Caxton says,andsomeshorteningstoo,asthemakerofboth,thefirsttranslator,tellsusintheMSS. Caxtonleaves outtheearlierenglisher'sinterestingEpilogin theEgertonMS. This prose englishingoftheSoulewillbeeditedfortheSocietyafterthatoftheManisfinisht,andwill haveGallopes'sFrenchoppositeit, fromMr. Gibbs'sMS., ashisgifttotheSociety. Ofthe PilgrimageofJesus,noenglishingisknown. As to the MS. Anglo-Saxon Psalters, Dr. Hy. Sweet has edited the oldest MS., the Vespasian,inhis Oldest English Texts for the Society, and Mr. Harsley has edited the latest, c. 1150, Eadwine'sCanterburyPsalter. TheotherMSS., exceptthe Paris one,being interlinearversions,-someoftheRoman-Latin redaction, and some oftheGallican,-Prof. Logemanhasprepared forpress,aParallel-TexteditionofthefirsttwelvePsalms, tostartthe completework. Hewill do his best to get the Paris Psalter-tho' it is not an interlinear one-intothis collective edition; but the additional matter, especiallyin theVerse-Psalms, isverydifficult to manage. IftheParistext cannot be parallelised, itwillformaseparate volume. TheEarly EnglishPsaltersareallindependentversions,andwillfollowseparately induecourse. Throughthegood officesoftheExaminers,someofthebooksfortheEarly-EnglishEx aminationsofthe University ofLondon willbe chosenfromtheSociety'spublications,the Committeehavingundertakentosupplysuchbooksto students atalargereductioninprice. Theprofitsfromthesesales,afterthepaymentofcostsarisingoutoftheissuingofsuchTexts toStudents, will beappliedtotheSociety'sReprints. Fiveofits 1866Texts, andoneofits 1867(nowat press),still need reproducing. Donations forthis purposewill bewelcome. Theyshould be paidtotheHon. Sec., Mr. W. A. Dalziel, 67 VictoriaRd., FinsburyPark, London, N. Members areremindedthatfresh Subscribersarealwayswanted, andthattheCommittee canatanytime,onshortnotice,sendtopressanadditionalThousandPounds'worthofwork. TheSubscriberstotheOriginal Seriesmustbeprepared fortheissueofthewholeofthe EarlyEnglish LivesofSaints, sooner or later. The Societycannot leave outany ofthem, eventhoughsomearedull. TheSinnerswoulddoubtlessbemuchmoreinteresting. Butin manySaints' Liveswill befound valuableincidental details ofourforefathers' social state, and all are worthful for the history ofour language. The Lives may be lookt on asthe religiousromancesorstory-booksoftheirperiod. TheStandardCollectionof Saints'LivesintheCorpusand Ashmole MSS.,the Harleian MS. 2277,&c. willrepeattheLaudset,ourNo. 87, withadditions, and inrightorder. (The foundationMS. (Laud108) hadtobeprintedfirst,topreventquiteunwieldycollations.) The SupplementaryLivesfromtheVernonandotherMSS.willformoneortwoseparatevolumes. Besidesthe Saints'Lives,Trevisa's englishingofBartholomæusdeProprietatibusRerum, themedievalCyclopædia of Science, &c.,will be the Society's next big undertaking. Dr. 1AnotherMS.isinthePepysLibrary. 2AccordingtoMr.Hy.HucksGibbs'sMS. 3ThesewereprintedinFrance,lateinthe15thorearlyinthe16thcentury. 415thcent.,containingonlytheViehumaine. 515thcent.,containingallthe3Pilgrimages,the3rdbeingJesusChrist's. 614thcent.,containingtheViehumaineandthe2ndPilgrimage,del'Ame:bothincomplete. 7Ab. 1430,106leaves(leaf1oftextwanting),withilluminationsofnicelittledevils-red,green,tawny &c.-anddamndsouls,fires,angels&c.