This collection from ms Bodley 649 comprises twenty-five sermons, twenty-three of them macaronic – written in Latin and English. They are from a Benedictine source and have been ascribed to John Pauntley, a monk of St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester, and a doctor of theology of Oxford (‘mater noster’), who, according to Emden's Biographical register (citing TNA, PRO C 47/127/5), was at Gloucester College in 1410. He owned Laud ms misc. 706 in which four of the sermons are partially duplicated. The manuscript is clearly written, possibly by an enigmatic John Swetstock whose abbreviated name appears on fo. 48. Internal evidence shows that the preacher addressed both secular clergy, the learned (magistri), as well as at times the laity, though they were confined as seculares illiterati to the foot of the metaphorical tree, while those with responsiblity for souls, curati, flew among the upper branches. This is only one of the many metaphors that enliven the text. The present reviewer is inclined to echo the quotation prefacing sermon 23: ‘My days have passed away like a ship’, because some thirty years ago he was writing articles based on this codex. The author is to be congratulated on his fortitude in producing an excellent edition with parallel texts in Latin and English, which will certainly enhance its value. For the most part the sermons constitute a Lenten course; the remainder are more varied. Collectively they are invaluable for the light they throw on the theological, political and social ideas current at the time, in certain respects recalling the critique of society a century earlier in The simonie, a poem on the times of Edward ii. There is strong denunciation of the harmful effect of the Lollards, their meddling with doctrinal matters, even the outrageous suggestion that women might become priests, enabled to celebrate and preach like men, despite the fact that even Our Lady was given no such authority. Henry v is lauded as a doughty warrior, not merely in military affairs but also in moral and religious matters. He provides hope at a time when the ship of state is beset by perils both from within and without. There are sermons for the obit of Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, and on the death of Walter Frocester (1412), the abbot of St Peter's, to whom is attributed a Historia devoted to that house with its somewhat unhistorical account of Abbot Thoky's bravery in accepting Edward ii's body, which vastly increased the financial resources of the abbey. The book is prefaced by a collation of the manuscript and a table showing the relationship of the structure of the sermons to the ‘academic’ model of the Artes predicandi. Scriptural, classical and scholastic sources are utilised in plenty by the sermons' author. These are helpfully and painstakingly indexed at pp. 538–44, following a very full bibliography. This is a welcome addition to the corpus of printed fifteenth-century sermons, and brings a unique macaronic collection to the notice not only of those interested in homiletic literature, but also to those seeking insights into the intellectual concerns of the time.