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ed. Surtees Soc. 1872. York, Corpus Christi Guild Register. Brit. Mus. Lansd. MS. 403. Extracts from the Municipal Records of the City of York. R. Davis. Appendix.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION AND PREACHING

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De Confessione, Tractatus. Mag. Willi. de Montibus, Brit. Mus.
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De Missis Celebrandis. Brit. Mus. Cott. MS. Nero A. iii. (f. 131–57).
Dives et Pauper. Harl. MS. 149; MS. Reg. 17 c. xx. and 17 c. xxi.
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Berthelet, 1536.
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W. de Worde in Lands. MS. 379.

Explanation of Commandments, etc. Add. MS. 27,592.

Printed by

Expositio S. Jeronomi in Symbolum Apostolorum. Printed by Roode, 1468.

For Parish Priests. Harl. MS. 4172 (written 1426, vide f. 62 d). Fratris Laurentii Gulielmi de Savona Margarita Eloquentiæ. Printed by Caxton, 1479-80.

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Pæniteas cito. A practical work on Confession, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1510 and again in 1520. Well known abroad; Quentell issued six editions.

Sermones Michalis de Ungaria. 1510.

Speculum Christiani. John Watton. Harl. MS. 206; 2250. Lansd. MS. 344; Add. MSS. 21,202; 22,121; 10,052; 15,237. Cf. Printed four times before

also MSS. Reg. 8 E. v. and 9 D. xv.

1513.

Speculum Christianorum. Ushaw Coll. Lib.

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1879.

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ed. T. F. Simmons for E. Eng. Text Soc.

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Valor Ecclesiasticus.

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1897.

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H. Swinden, History of Great Yarmouth (sect. xxii., St. Nicholas' Church).

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Calendar of Wills in the Court of Husting, London. ed. R. R. Sharpe.

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J. J. Raven, The Church Bells of Suffolk.

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1754.

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1533.

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Lupset, T., Exhortation to Younge Men. 1535.

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PARISH LIFE IN

MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

CHAPTER I

THE PARISH

UNIV. OF

NY account of parish life in medieval England must
include much more than might at first sight be sup-

posed. To imagine that the story of the parson and his church could adequately represent the story of the parish, even with all that the one had to do for his people and all that in the other was contained and done, is somewhat like thinking that the biographies of kings and nobles and the chronicle of their battles and achievements would tell properly the story of a people or a country. The fact is, that in those far-off days the parish church was the centre of popular life all the country over, and that the priest and other parochial officials were the recognised managers of many interests beyond those of a strictly ecclesiastical nature. Religion and religious observances then formed an integral part of the English people's very existence in a way somewhat difficult for us to grasp in these days, when the undoubted tendency is to set God and the things of God outside the pale of ordinary worldly affairs, and to keep them

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