Beinecke MS 88                                                     England, s. XV^^med
Carta de foresta, etc.

     1. f. i recto blank; f. i verso    Note in English (s. xv^^2) on 1
     January as the beginning of each year for the Golden Number, beginning:
     Euermore prime schal chaunge the furste day of new yere scilicet in
     circumsisio [sic] domini....

     2. f. 1r blank; f. 1v    [same hand as art. 3:] In marche after the
     furste C/ loke the prime Where hit be/ the thride Sonday....

          IMEV 1502, couplets on finding the date of Easter.

     3. ff. 2r-7v    Graded calendar in red and black, including the
     following feasts: David (1 March, 9 lessons), Chad (2 March, 9
     lessons), "Resurrectio domini" (27 March, in red), Richard of
     Chichester (3 April, 9 lessons), Translation of Richard of Chichester
     (16 June, in red), Ethelreda (23 June), Anna (26 July, in red).

     4. ff. 8r-17r    [E]dwardus dei gratia Rex...salutem. Inspeximus cartam
     domini henrici quondam Regis...[f. 8v] In primis omnes foreste quas h.
     annis...duodecimo die Octobris Anno regni nostri vicesimo quinto.
     Explicit Carta de fforesta.

          SR, v. 1, Charters of Liberties, pp. 42-44, altered at the end to
     conform to text printed on p. 36.

     5. ff. 17r-20r    Incipit Sentencia [Excommunicationis] lata super
     Cartam. [A]nno domini Millesimo ducentesimo quinquagesimo tercio ydus
     Maij in maiori aula...Nos signa nostra presentibus duximus apponenda.
     Explicit sentencia lata super Cartam.

          SR, v. 1, pp. 6-7.

     6. ff. 20r-26r    [E]wardus dei gratia Rex...salutem. Dum
     imbecillitatis humane conspicimus imperfectum ac onera longe lateque
     diffusa...apud Westmonasterium xxvij die Maij Anno regni nostri
     tricesimo quarto.

          SR, v. 1, pp. 147-49.

     7. ff. 26v-28r    Statuta de malefactoribus in Parcis. Ut malefactores
     in parcis forestis chaceis et Warennis de cetero plus timeant in eisdem
     intrare...et secundum consuetudinem regni fuerit faciendum etc.

          SR, v. 1, pp. 111-12.

     8. ff. 28v-30r    Incipit ordinacio de fforesta. Come astimes gentz qui
     sount hors de fforeste par la purale et par le grant...en lour baillies
     en la forme auantdite.

          SR, v. 1, p. 144.

     9. 30v-33v    Incipiunt Capitula de regardis faciendis etc. [V]idenda
     sunt assarta facta post principium secundi anni primi coronacionis
     domini henrici Regis...vel aliquod aliud ingenium ad malefaciendum
     domino Regi de feris suis etc.

          These are the articles in Calendar of Patent Rolls in Public
     Record Office (1225-32) pp. 286-87 (13 Henry III).

     10. ff. 34r-36v    Statutes Edwardi tercij Anno Primo de fforesta. Et
     pur ceo que pluseurs gentz sont disherites et destruez par les
     souereins gardeins...par vewe de foresters eodem Anno status etc.

          SR, v. 1, p. 254; the end of the text differs somewhat from the
     printed version.

     11. ff. 37r-38v    Statutes de fforesta Anno vij Ricardi Regis. Item a
     la greuouse pleint que est ore fait des Ministres...de hoc in addicione
     fforeste Anno primo Regis Eduardis tercij capitulo vj^^to.

     12. ff. 39r-46r    Assisa fforeste. Si quis fforestarius iuratus facere
     attachiamenta inuenerit aliquem attachiabilem...al Roy dj mars etc.

          SR, v. 1, pp. 243-45; Latin version ends at n.2 in printed text,
     p. 244; text continues in French.

     13. ff. 46v-57v    Onus Articulorum foreste super Swanymote tenendum
     per sacramentum. First sirs ye shul do vs to Witte yf all tho men that
     owen to sue to this Swanymote...And of all other defautes that been
     forte presente.

          Selections similar to those in J. Manwood, A Brefe Collection of
     the Laws of the Forest (London, 1592) pp. 114-20.

     14. ff. 58r-67v    [R]egardum factum in fforesta de Rokyngham et de
     C^^1yue ab octauo die Maij Anno regni Regis Edwardi fili Regis Edwardi
     quintodecimo vsque....f. 68r blank

          Cf. Lyell Cat., p. 80, art. 24.

     15. ff. 68v-69r    henricus dei gratia etc. vic. Sutht. salutem
     precipimus tibi quod sine aliqua dilatione conuenire facias...Capitula
     videnda sunt assarta facta in foresta etc.

     Breve de regardis faciendis to the Sheriff of Hampshire; cf. Calendar
     of Patent Rolls in Public Record Office (1216-1225) pp. 402-03 (7 Henry
     III).

          Parchment, ff. ii (contemporary parchment) + 68 (foliated 2-69),
     115 x 82 (70 x 47) mm.; ff. i-7 smaller in size. Written in 14 long
     lines; frame-ruled in ink. Numerous prickings for art. 3; prickings in
     upper, lower, and outer margins for remainder.
          I^^6, II-VIII^^8, IX^^6. Some gatherings signed with letters of the
     alphabet under written space, on recto.
          Arts. 4-14 written in a neat chancery script with Anglicana
     influence; arts. 1 and 15 in similar, but less elegant hands; arts. 2-3
     are in gothic textura.
          Plain initial, in red, with crude ink penwork flourishes on f. 1v;
     KL monograms and portions of calendar also on red.
          Some stains on ff. 2r-7v render text illegible.
          Binding: s. xix-xx. Rebinding in quarter pigskin, tanned, not
     tawed, with a strap and pin fastening. The oak boards, cambered on all
     four outer edges and with rectangular pegs, are probably contemporary
     with the manuscript. Front pastedown composed of a small fragment of
     prayers in Latin (s. xv).

          Written in England in the middle of the 15th century; early
     provenance unknown. Inscription (s. xvi) on front pastedown: "Tho.
     Martin". Unidentified shelf-mark on back pastedown: "AE/2095". Slip
     from an unidentified Sotheby sale catalogue affixed to f. i recto. Gift
     of David Wagstaff (bookplate) in 1944.

     secundo folio: [text, f. 9] et si boscum

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 27, no. 88.

     Barbara A. Shailor