^{page 399 note a} Hunc librum olim Jacobi Cobs Armigeri | Dedit nobis in Bibliotheca Scholæ Buriensis | Servandum | Jacobus Harvy Jurisconsultus ejus | ex filia Nepos | et hujus Scholæ aliquando | Alumnus | An. Domini | 1706.

^{page 399 note b} The figures refer to the present numbering of the leaves, which takes no notice of the Calendar. Two leaves between 149 and 150 have been overlooked and left without numbers.

^{page 399 note c} Since this was written the MS. has been suitably bound.

^{page 400 note a} The Norwich additions consist of St. Felix, apostle of East Anglia (March 9), Translation of St. Edmund (April 29), St. Dominic (August 5), St. Francis (October 4), and the Dedication of Norwich Cathedral Church on September 24. In this Calendar the last feast has been added by a later hand.

The Calendar used in the abbey of St. Edmund may be partly reconstructed from the imperfect MS. Ordinale for the Use of the Abbey, now in the British Museum (Harl. MS. 2977). It included the two feasts of St. Jurmin and of St. Botulf, and other festivals not found in the Calendar of the MS. under consideration.

^{page 400 note b} The entry in this Calendar is: “Sancte wenefrede uirginis et martyris uiue.” The last word is readily explained by the story of this saint's martyrdom, as related in the Golden Legend. After her head had been smitten off by Cradok, a “cursyd Tyraunt ful of malyce,” it was replaced by St. Beuno and again united to her body, but “euer as longe as she lyued after, there appiered aboute her necke a rednes round aboute, lyke to a rede threde of sylke, in sygne and token of her martyrdome.” (Ed. W. de Worde, 1498, fo. cccxiii.)

^{page 400 note c} , Wilkins, Concilia, iii. 234.Google Scholar

^{page 400 note d} Wilkins, iii. 376.

^{page 401 note a} Wilkins, iii. 379.

^{page 401 note b} The numbers of the Psalms refer to the Vulgate.

^{page 402 note a} This custom still holds ground, in theory. at least, in some portions of the Eastern Church. (Maclean, A. J., East Syrian Daily Offices, 1894, p. 17).Google Scholar

^{page 402 note b} Mr. W. H. St. John Hope has since pointed out that in one of the smaller letters of the illuminated initial of Psalm xxvi. (see Plate XXIX., fig. 1) is a drawing of the royal arms. Though somewhat rubbed it is clear that the French quarters each contained four fleurs-de-lis; the arms are therefore anterior to 1408, in which year the three fleurs-de-lis first appear on the great golden seal of Henry IV. The date of the MS. must therefore fall between 1399 (the arms of Richard II. being different) and 1408.

^{page 403 note a} “In suscipienda vero Benedictione Abbas Tester nulli Archiepiscopo vel Episcopo, sed soli Romano Pontifici, ad cujus dispositionem idem Monasterium vestrum specialiter pertinet, obedientiam promittat vel faciat Professionem.” Battely, J., Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi. Oxoniæ, 1745, p. 79.Google Scholar

^{page 404 note a} Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey, edited by Arnold, T. (Rolls Series), 1892, ii. 289.Google Scholar

^{page 404 note b} “Translatio sancti Botulphi episcopi et confessoris xii. lectiones et in ij cappis.” MS. Ordinale of Bury St. Edmund's (British Museum, Harl. MS. 2977, fo. 26).

^{page 404 note c} “Botulfi estanglorum episcopi et botulfi abbatis magne sanctitatis uiri.” MS. Martyrologium in British Museum (Roy. MS., 2 A xiii.).

^{page 404 note d} Harl. MS. 2977.

^{page 405 note a} , Battely, op. cit. p. 69Google Scholar . The chapel of St. Saba was a spot closely connected with an important episode in the history of the abbey. In 1213 the seven electors, to whom was delegated the task of choosing an abbot by way of compromise (via compromissi), met in the chapel of St. Saba, and selected Hugo de Northwold, a choice which led to an eventful controversy between the Abbey and King John. (See Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey, ed. by Arnold, T. (Rolls Series), 1892, ii. 31.)Google Scholar

^{page 405 note b} Harl. MS. 2977.

^{page 405 note c} Scriptorum Veterum Nova Gollectio e Vaticanis Codicibus Maio, Edita ab Angelo (Romæ, 1831), v. 68Google Scholar . Cardinal Mai has only printed the English names which occur in the Litany. Of these eleven are not found in the later one, which is printed at the end of this paper, viz. Aethelbyrhte, Byrine, Eorconwolde, Oswolde [Ep. Conf.], Iudoce, Grrimbalde, Machu, Hyue, Eadburh, Aelfgyfu, Toua.

^{page 406 note a} 0 mundi pater unice

eunctarum rerum optime

sanctum edmundum annne

nobis pie recollere.

Edmunde pater paterne

tuos fideles respice

et nos paterno animo

defends a periculo.

Laus tibi smnme domine

pro emus sacro nomine

edmundus mortem sustulit

et mortis uictor extitit.

^{page 406 note b} I may be allowed to record with deep regret the death of Canon Cooke on November 23, 1894.

^{page 410 note a} = Ositha.

_{page 410 note b} Reg. MS. 2. A. xxi. fo. 182b.