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The Opponents of Bishop Pecok

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R. M. Ball
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Orthodox criticism of Bishop Reynold Pecok began ten years before he recanted and resigned in 1457–8. It came from a group of consciously orthodox theologians whose views were outraged by Pecok's teaching in sermon, disputation and writings. Long before his trial and recantation, Pecok had offended two important movements: a pastoral movement, deeply committed to preaching, which he outraged by belittling the importance of preaching; and a patristic movement which had grown up in the universities from the 1420s and whose members were now undertaking pastoral work. Pecok's gradually revealed hostility to the Fathers was particularly offensive to his younger opponents. If differences in age thus gave rise to differences of emphasis among Pecok's opponents, so too did differences of academic background. Nevertheless, as learned, consciously orthodox theologians with pastoral interests, they shared a common theological culture. The changes in emphasis found their expression in the course of controversy.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , April 1997, pp. 230 - 262
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BRUC = A. B. Emden, A biographical register of the University of Cambridge to 1500, Cambridge 1963; BRUO = A. B. Emden, A biographical register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, Oxford 1957; CPR = Calendar of Patent Rolls; EDR = Ely Diocesan Records; EETS = Early English Text Society; GL = Guildhall Library, London; LPL = Lambeth Palace Library; OHS = Oxford Historical Society

I am grateful to Dr R. W. Lovatt for his comments on this article in draft, and to St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, for the material assistance of a scholarship.

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44 The main reply to Pecok is in ibid. pp. 343–56; other important passages are pp. 313–17, 319–21, 393–6, 401–7; some passages at least date from 1449 or later – see pp. 317, 391, 394, 401, 404. There are passages relating to Pecok not in Loci on pp. 120, 131, 143.

45 Ibid. pp. 313–14; see also p. 406. Gascoigne quotes Pecok's conclusions (cf. Repressor, ii. 616–17) and gives his specific reply on pp. 343–56 (partim, Loci, 26–32); the passage quoted is on p. 345 (Loci, 30).

46 Ibid. pp. 347, 351.

47 ‘Item tenetur predicare quia officium precipuum episcopi et speciale est docere et predicare’: ibid. p. 354; ‘tenentur predicare verbum Dei populo iuxta preceptum Dei Marci ultimo [Mark xvi. 15] dicentis apostolis quibus episcopi sunt in onere officij successores Ite predicate…’: p. 315. For bishops as successors apostolorum see also pp. 315, 320, 346–7, 350, 355, 381, 396; Mark xvi. 15, pp. 346, 347, 355; Acts x. 42, p. 320; ‘Deus enim eos [sc. episcopos] ad hunc actum predicandi verba Dei et facta obligauit’: p. 320; equivocations, pp. 314–15; Jerome, p. 319 (cf. ep. cviii, PL xxii. 902).

48 Amos: Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 118, pp. 464–5; Jeremiah: ibid. pp. 405–7, 421, 433; Ezekiel: MS Lat. 117, pp. 321, 348–9, 377, 395; MS Lat. 118, pp. 408–9, 475–7, 483 (obligation to preach), 556, 558–9, 564, 565, 567. See also MS Lat. 118, pp. 626–7 (Hosea ix. 8).

49 Ibid. p. 593 (Loci, 208: the passage omitted in Loci expounds Num. xi. 17); MS Lat. 117, pp. 315, 317 (immediately prior to the anti-Pecok passage quoted Loci, 15), 334 (Loci, 23) 393, 394 (immediately following the anti-Pecok passage quoted Loci, 38); MS Lat. 118, pp. 408, 569.

50 Roberti Grosseteste epistolae, ed. Luard, H. R. (Rolls Series, 1861), ep. cxxvii, pp. 357–431Google Scholar; Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 117, p. 403. The anti-Pecok passage in Loci, 40, follows soon after this.

51 For figures for Gascoigne's citations see the appendix below.

52 ‘Item episcopi assumuntur ad officium ecclesie excellentissimum sc. euangelium predicandum teste domino Lincolniensi doctore Grostest in prologo exposicionis sue proprie super epistolas sancti Pauli… Officium enim predicandi euangelium tollit maximam miseriam sc. ignoranciam et vicium hec ibi dominus Lincolniensis’: Linc. Coll., MS 117, p. 350.

53 In Bodl Lib., MS Bodl. 312, Gascoigne annotates epp. i, xxv, cxxvii and exxviii (the last perhaps written in his fair hand): fos 126r, 135V, 172V–84V, 117–18r; cf. Grosseteste epistolae, pp. 1, 97, 357–437. Ep. exxviii is cited in Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 118, pp. 190, 551 (Loci, 170, 199), and annotated by Gascoigne in Cambridge University Library, MS Ii. 1. 19, fos 208v–9v.

54 Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 117, pp. 474–500 (Loci, 53–99); chapters in the Liber de veritatibus are devoted to Promocio, Appropriatio et non residencia, Absolucio, Indulgencie, and Dispensatio: Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 118, pp. 513–21; MS Lat. 117, pp. 55–63, 1–52, 575–611, 260–5; Pantin, W. A., ‘Grosseteste's relations with the papacy and the crown’, in Callus, D. A. (ed.), Robert Grosseteste, scholar and bishop, Oxford 1955, 179–83Google Scholar.

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56 BL, MS Royal 8.C.i, fos 131v–2r (EETS os ccxxxii, pp. 26–7), cf. sermon Beatipauperes, Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 153, fo. 214r.

57 BRUC, 176. For Damlett at Pembroke see Cambridge, Pembroke College Archives, College MS Aα, pp. 74, λ, δ, 22; College MS lα, fos 59V, 62r; College MS Cβ, p. 1.

58 GL, MS 9171/6, fo. clxxxixr–v; Syon catalogue, 227, 158 (P. 56).

59 Cambridge, Pemb. Coll., MS 184, fos 1r, 22r; MS 185, fo. 233r; MS 186, fos 2r, v, 11r, 13r, 14v, 51r.

60 Ibid, MS 186: ‘nota quod predicare est opus pontificis’: fo. 194v; ‘Nota quod principale officium episcopi est docere’: fo. 167r; ‘Nota quod officium episcopi est docere’: fo. 166r; ‘episcopus debet esse electus a domino et quid debet facere notatur/episcopus et predicator debet esse segregatus dupliciter nota bene’: fo. 2r; ‘Nota quod episcopi debent eis associare ali[o]s probos qui cum eis laborarent in predicacione’: fo. 113v, cf. fo. 153r; ‘contra prelatos et curatos malos nolentes predicare’: fo. 14r: ‘nolentes predicare’ is added in the same hand but a different ink: cf. fo. 6v; ‘nota durum verbum pro prelatis’: fo. 6r; reasons why some put off preaching: fo. 6v; ‘Nota quod predicatores non debent a predicacione cessare propter quamcumque tribulacionem sed contrarie faciunt modo’: fo. 122v; ‘nota triplex officum predicatoris et est bonum antethema’: fo. 177v, cf. fos 1r, 168v (?).

61 Pemb. Coll., MS 186, fos 11 1r, 124v, 129, 150V, 165r, v (unsuitable candidates); MS 197, fo. 40r (non-residence); MS 186, fos 124r, 125r (pluralism).

62 Adm. 18 Aug. 1447: GL, MS 9531/6, fo. lxxiiij (96)r; vacated by death 1476: GL, MS 9531/7 (Reg. Th. Kempe), fo. clvv.

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66 Gascoigne was born 1403 (Bodl. Lib., MS Lat.th.e.33, p. 41; 5 Jan. 1403/4 ace. to Bale, , Index, 439)Google Scholar, priest 1427 (Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 118, p. 397; Loci, 179), BD 1433, DD 1434 (Oxford, Magdalen College, MS Lat. 103, fos 24r, 178r; Aberdeen University Library, MS 241, fo. 176V). Assuming this pattern with the priesthood at 24 to be normal, though two years from BD to DD was usual, then Irford, subdeacon 1414 (EDR G/I/3, fo. cclxiiij a) and DD (Paris) 1428/9 (Chartularium Universilatis Parisiensis, ed. Denifle, H. and Chatelain, A., Paris 1889–1897, iv. 479)Google Scholar would have been born c. 1391; Myllyngton, priest 1420/1 (EDR G/I/3, fo. cixa) would have been born c. 1396/7 and DD C. 1428; Burbache, priest 1424 (Reg. Chichele, iv. 367) would have been born c. 1400 and DD C. 1432; Damlett, priest c. 1426 (Pemb. Coll. Archives, College MS la, fo. 59V) would have been born c. 1402 and DD c. 1434; Worthington, priest 1431 (Norfolk Record Office, DL/REG 5 bk 9 [Reg. Alnwick], fo. 132v) would have been born c. 1407 and DD C. 1439. Evidence of Eyburhale's age is lacking, but Gascoigne's way of speaking of him suggests that they were contemporaries; Eyburhale died in 1471 (GL, MS 9531/7, fo. cxxixv).

67 Pecok was priested 8 March 1420/1 (Linc. Archives, Bp. Reg. 16, fo. 175r) and therefore (on the above assumptions) born c. 1396/7.

68 Linc. Coll., MsLat. 118, pp. 593–4 (Loci, 208–9: but read ‘legendo’ after ‘scribendo’ ‘precipui’ for ‘precipue’; and ‘qui Pecok’ for ‘quia Pecok’). For Goddard, see BRUO ii. 776Google Scholar; Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 117, p. 502 (Loci, 100). Bale, J., Scriptorum illustrium maioris Brytannie catalogus, Basle 1557–1559, i. 595Google Scholar, appendix, claims (in a note full of errors) John Milverton oc as an opponent of Pecok.

69 Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 117, p. 317 (Loci, 15); MS Lat. 118, p. 598, 599 (Loci, 215, 217).

70 Repressor, ii. 320, 334–5. See also Book of faith, 146, 151.

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72 Ibid. i. 335–7. 360.

73 Ibid. i. 337.

74 Ibid. i. 339, 349–50.

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78 This full title is given by Gascoigne, Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 118, p. 14 (Loci, 129) and (with ‘collectis’ after ‘scriptura’ instead of after ‘veritatibus’) in his will: Regislrum Cancellarii Oxoniensis 1434–1469, ed. Salter, H. E. (OHS xciii–xciv, 1932), i. 406Google Scholar.

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80 LPL, MS 202, fos 81r (1432), 99v, iiiv (1434). Gascoigne used Jerome on Isaiah in 1433: Aberdeen UL, MS 241, fo. 176v. For Jerome's letters at Greyfriars see Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 117, p. 473 (The friars' libraries, ed. Humphreys, K. W., London 1990, 228)Google Scholar.

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83 BL, MS Royal 10. A. xv, fos 1 v, 2r (Friars' libraries, 9–10: the last item may be a later addition), 3r; Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 118, p. 309.

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86 ‘Maior fides danda est sanctis doctoribus et eorum testimonijs et verbis quam dictis aliorum [MS aliquando] viuencium primo quia sancto Dei spiritu inspirati locuti sunt sancti Dei homines. Item quia maiorem experienciam quam alii et inuestigacionem probacionum habuerunt. Item quia lumen naturalis ingenii et eciam reuelacionis diuine habuerunt. Item Dominus eorum sermonem confirmauit sequentibus signis et miraculis.… Item quia spiritus Dei accendit corda audiencium verbum ipsorum in amore virtutis.… Item eorum euidencie et verba et sancta vita et gracia et miracula ipsis orantibus facta cogebant intellectum hec videncium [?: MS videncis] et ad assensum eorum verbis.… Illi enim homines qui dicunt Augustinus fuit homo et ego sum et alij sancti doctores similes michi in ingenio fuerunt et ideo non credimus eis nisi ingenio nostro dicta eorum conueniunt similes sunt Datan et Abiron.… Item Deus auferebat velamen fantasmatum ab intellectu eorum in pluribus et per lucis increate irradiacionem actum intelligendi habuerunt’: Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 117, p. 272: the whole passage is noteworthy. For the quotation from Grosseteste see below, n. 89. See also MS Lat. 118, p. 111, and for Gascoigne's quotation of Grosseteste ‘contra illos qui non credunt dictis sanctorum eo quod non intelligunt ea’: MS Lat. 117, p. 522. 87 Ibid, MS Lat. 118, p. 426.

88 Ibid. MS Lat. 117, p. 426 (Loci, pp. 49–50): this passage immediately follows a quotation from Grosseteste.

89 ‘est hec reuelacio vel fantasmatum ablacio et per lucis increate [MS increato] irradiacionem intelligencie nostre in actum intelligendi eductio hec ibi [sc. on 2 Cor. xii] dominus Lincolniensis et istud fuit in sancta Birgitta vidua gloriosa’: ibid. p. 423.

90 Reg. Cane. Oxon., i. 406.

91 ‘beatissima Maria domina nostra semper virgo dicit in reuelacionibus sancte Brigitte [sic] quod inter omnes doctores sanctus Jeronimus inuenit sapienciam celestem in terris et ideo merito vocari potest sanctus Jeronimus celestis doctor’: Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 117, p. 470; cf. Reuelationes celestes preelecte sponse Christie beate Birgitte vidue de regno Suecie, Nuremburg 1517, iv. xxi, fo. lxiirGoogle Scholar; ‘celestis doctor’ is used passim in the Liber de veritatibus.

92 The Dean's register of Oriel 1446–1661, ed. Richards, G. C. and Salter, H. E. (OHS lxxxiv, 1926), pp. 369–70Google Scholar. Gascoigne is styled ‘commensalis’ in Oriel Coll., MS 30, fos ii [1]v, 1[4]r.

93 ‘A catalogue of the library of Oriel College in the year 1375 A.D.’, ed. Shadwell, C. L., Collectanea i (OHS v, 1885), 59–70Google Scholar; but Gascoigne noted volumes of Augustine and Jerome not in the 1375 catalogue: Aberdeen UL, MS 241, fo. 177r; Oxford, Balliol College, MS 45, fo. 1 18v.

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107 ‘nota contra eos qui leges vel alie sciencie preferunt theologie/Nota bene contra literatos et theologos qui se terrenis negociis se [sic] implicant’: Pemb. Coll., MS 186, fo. 140r; see also fos 118v, 146v; MS 185, fo. 15r; cf. Cobban, ‘Theology and law’, 69–74Google Scholar; ‘nota quomodo potest theologus vti sciencijs paganorum’ [sc. as ancille theologie]: Pemb. Coll., MS 186, fo. 103v; ‘articuli fidei sunt principia in theologia’: ibid. fo. 47v; ‘nota contra nimium dantes se subtilitatibus in philosophia vel theologia’: ibid. fo. 145v: see also fos 172v, 178v. For other references to the qualities of theologians see ibid. fos 14r, 51r, 121r, 125r.

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116 CPR 1446–1452, 584.

117 John Rylands University Library of Manchester, MS Eng. 77 (NT in English) ‘was overseyne and redd(?) by doctor Thomas Ebborall and doctor Yve or pat my modir bought hit’: fo. 267V; Deanesly, M., The Lollard Bible, Cambridge 1920Google Scholar, repr. 1966, 336. Nicholas Sabrisford, priest, bequeathed two books of the Gospels and Epistles in Latin and English to Eyburhale in 1464/5: PRO, PROB 11/5, fos 55v–6r.

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122 Damlett and Irford benefactors, ibid. fo. 74v; Irford acting re the new hall 1448/9, QC 29/59. 3 (but probably not implying he was a Fellow, pace Searle, , Queens' College, 31)Google Scholar.

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125 ‘post eum reputo Hugonum de Vienna meliorem expositorem scripture et sensum historicum et moralem quern habet beatus Jeronimus in stilo antiquo et originali habet Hugo de Vienna in stilo planiori et faciliori’: Linc. Coll., MS 117, p. 457. For the frequency of Gascoigne's citation see the appendix below.

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129 Cambridge, Clare College Archives, AD 1/01 (Master's Old Book), p. 39. BRUC, 418, is in error in saying that Myllyngton gave these books as his brother's executor.

130 Gonville and Caius Coll., MSS 250/495 (see fo. 194v), 297/691, fos 1–219 (see fo. 219v), 470/653 (see fo. 222v; ‘quod Bumstede magister’: fo. 211r), 472/655 (see fo. 303v), 481/477 (see fo. 254v) were all owned by Bumpstede. A Bumpstede ex libris may have been lost from any of MSS 5/5, 471/654, 4/4, 3/3, 474/657, 244/490; but MS 297/691, fos 220–304, and MS 473/656 were not apparently owned by Bumpstede. For Bumpstede, see BRUC, 106, 672Google Scholar.

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132 Ibid. MS 184: Jerome on Jeremiah, fos 200r–32v, with notes by Damlett, fo. 201r, v; a note on fo. 1 v also mentions Jerome.

133 Damlett's will, GL, MS 9171/6, fo. clxxxixr–v; cf. the bequest under Sperhawk's will, proved 4 Feb. 1474/5, PRO, PROB 11/6, fo. 141v (Somerset medieval wills, ed. Weaver, F. W. [Somerset Record Society xvi, 1901], 224)Google Scholar.

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135 Syon catalogue, 137 (O 2), 49–50 (E 50).

136 Balliol Coll., MS 133 (see fos 275v, 277v).

137 Pemb. Coll., MS 186, fo. 170r; cf. Glorieux, P., La littérature quodlibétique de 1260 á 1320, Kain 1925, 155Google Scholar, quodlibet iv. 19; Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 117, p. 385; GL, MS 9171/6, fo. clxxxix.r.

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139 It was written after Bury became Provincial of the Austin Friars (elected 1459, confirmed 1459/60), and before Bishop John Lowe's death in 1467: Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 108, fo. 1r, v (Repressor, ii. 571, 572).

140 Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 108, fo. 1r, v (Repressor, ii. 571–2).

141 Repressor, i. 83. See also Pecock, R., The reule of Crysten religioun, ed. Greet, W. C. (EETS os clxxi, 1927), 23, 132, 200Google Scholar; Folewer, 72–3; Book of faith, 174–5; Represser i. 41–5, 52.

142 Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 108, fos 31v–2r (De civitate Dei xxii. 22, CCL xlviii. 842–3; PL xli. 784–5).

143 Ibid, fos 43v–5r (Summa contra Gentiles 1. iv–v).

144 Ibid. fo. 37r–v. Bury speaks of natural reason as the serpent in Eden on fo. 28v.

145 Ibid., fos 40v–2r; cf. la He q. xci art. 2–4. For infused and acquired virtues, see fos 29r–v (= Qg. de virlutibus art. x), 31V, 58v–9r (Repressor ii. 608–9; cf. Qq. de virtutibus art. ix, x).

146 Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 108, fo. 16v; Medieval libraries supplement, 9, 79.

147 BL, MS Royal 10. A. xv, fos I v, 2r: see above p. 245.

148 ‘Qualis autem et quanta sit perfectio luminis reuelacionis ex verbis Dionisii colligitur in libro de diuinis nominibus Deus inquit qui est essentialiter bonus nominatur intelligibile lumen…ab omnibus eciam animabus quibus innascitur expellit omnem ignoranciam et errorem’; ‘Hec tria [sc. the results of the spiritual darkness of ignorance] remouet intelligibile lumen reuelacionis. Nam de primo dicit Dyonisius quod intelligibile lumen mundat intellectuales oculos ipsarum animarum a fede… Nam si lumen reuelacionis tanto apud Dionisium preconio dignum sit quia tenebras ignorancie fugat, merito lumen racionis eo imperfectum dicitur quia nebulis respargitur ignorancie. De hac vtique loquens Augustinus 22° de ciuitate c. 23° ait quod tenebroso quodam sinu omnes filios suscepit.’: Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 108, fos 59v–60v; cf. De divinis nominibus iv. 5, 6 (Dionysiaca, ed. Chevallier, P., Bruges 1937, i. 172–3); De civilate Dei xxii. 22 (CCL xlviii. 842; PL xli. 784)Google Scholar

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150 Compare, for example, the passages cited in n. 141 above with De divinis nominibus i (Dionysiaca i. 5–56) or De mystica theologia iii (used by Damlett, n. 165 below).

151 ‘iuxta illud Dionisii primo libro de diuinis nominibus Vniuersaliter non est audendum dicere neque intellegere aliquid de essentiali et occulta diuinitate preter diuinitus nobis ex sacris scripturis expressa’: Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 108, fo. 32V; De divinis nominibus i. 1 (Dionysiaca i. 7).

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153 ‘Proprium et speciale officium sacre scripture est, mores viatorum [MS viatores] reddere deiformes’: Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 108, fo. 31v, supported by general references to the two Hierarchies; ‘per radium reuelacionis in scriptura sancta mores traduntur deiformes’: fo. 32v, with quotations from De divinis nominibus i. 2, 1 (Dionysiaca i. 16, 7); ‘libri philosophorum catholicorum ad hoc ordinantur vt vita hominum quibus diuina reuelacio non nisi per homines innotescit facilius per eorum exempla et veteranorum per eos renouatas tradiciones deiformitatem quandam in moribus amplectetur’: fo. 36r–v; cf. Repressor, i. 35–6, 39.

154 Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 797: Bury's erased ex libris and Sheen ex dono: front pastedown; the miscellany is on fos iir–viir; Hilton, fos iir–v, ivr–v (cf. Scale i. 46–8, 33, 27–8); Rolle, fos iiv–iiir (cf. Some minor works of Richard Rolle, ed. Hodgson, G. E., London 1923, 49–54Google Scholar; Allen, H. E., Writings ascribed to Richard Rolle, New York, London 1927, 74–5)Google Scholar; Medieval libraries of Great Britain, ed. Ker, N. R., 2nd edn, London 1964, 178Google Scholar.

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157 Ibid. MS Bodl. 117, fo. 11r.

158 BL, MS Royal 8.C. i, fos 127v–8r (EETS os ccxxxii, pp. 15–16), cf. PL clxxxiii. 962; these passages are additions to Lichefeld's source, the Ancrene Riwle: cf. The English text of the Ancrene Riwle edited from Cotton MS Nero A. xiv, ed. Day, M. (EETS os ccxxv, 1952), 43–4Google Scholar. For Gascoigne's use of Bernard on the Song of Songs see Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 117, p. 549; MS Lat. 118, pp. 155, 676; for Eyburhale's see n. 168 below; for Bury's, Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 108, fos 50r, 52r–v.

159 BL, MS Royal 10. A. xv, fos iv, 2r: see above p. 245; Linc. Coll., MS Lat. 117, p. 166.

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