In further illustration of the payments made in that age for
writing, etc., Sir John Fenn gives the following extracts from an
original quarto MS. then in his possession, containing--
The various expences of Sir John Howard, Knight, of Stoke by Neyland, in
Suffolk (afterwards Duke of Norfolk), page 136.
Item, the vij^th yere of Kynge Edward the iiij^th, and the xxviij. day
of July (1467). My master rekened with Thomas Lympnour of Bury, and my
master peid hym--
For viij. hole vynets . . . prise the vynett, xii_d._,
viij_s._
Item, for xxj. demi vynets . . . prise the demi vynett, iiij_d._
vij_s._
Item, for Psalmes lettres xv^c. and di’ . . . the prise of
C. iiij_d._
v_s._ ij_d._
Item, for p’ms letters lxiij^c. . . . prise of a C., j_d._
v iij_d._
Item, for wrytynge of a quare and demi . . . prise the quayr, xx_d._
ij_s._ vj_d._
Item, for wrytenge of a calender,
xij_d._
Item, for iij. quayres of velym, prise the quayr, xx_d._
v_s._
Item, for notynge of v. quayres and ij. leves, prise of the quayr,
viij[_d._]
iij_s._ vij_d._
Item, for capital drawynge iij^c. and di’, the prise,
iij_d._
Item, for floryshynge of capytalls, v^c.
v_d._
Item, for byndynge of the boke,
xij_s._
c_s._ ij_d._
The wyche parcellis my master paid hym this day, and he is content.
This is an account of a limner or illuminator of manuscripts, who
resided at Bury.
[Footnote 1-1: [From Fenn, ii. 10.] By the date of one item in the
account subjoined to this letter it must have been written after
the year 1468, probably in the year following.]
[Footnote 1-2: This ‘great book’ has been identified, on evidence
which at first sight seems conclusive, with MS. 285 in the
Lansdowne library in the British Museum. But probably this latter
is only another transcript by Ebesham of a very similar volume.
_See_ Account of this MS. in ‘Sailing Directions for the
Circumnavigation of England,’ published by the Hakluyt Society in
1889.]
[Footnote 1-3: Sir Thomas Lewis, a priest.]
[Footnote 2-1: Here (according to Fenn) follows the account as
stated more at large in the subjoined Bill.]
[Footnote 2-2: Fenn’s modern transcript reads Lewis. Is ‘Leevys’
in the other a misprint for ‘Lewys’?]
[Footnote 3-1: _Othea_ means a treatise on Wisdom.--F.
The name is derived from the Greek Ὠ θεὰ, but was used in the
Middle Ages as a proper name. See a poem beginning
‘Othea of prudence named godesse,’
mentioned in the Third Report of the Historical MSS. Commission,
p. 188.]
[Footnote 4-1: _magno_, ‘m^o’ in Fenn.]
[Footnote 4-2: So in Fenn. Qu. _cum diurnali challengiorum_? Fenn
omits the whole of this clause, unde . . . . chal’, but notices
its occurrence in a footnote.]
[[_In this section, many italic “d”s were misprinted as “a”.
They have not been individually noted._
... the Chalengs, and the Acts of Armes which is xxviij^ti lefs
_text has “less”; corrected from Fenn (“lefs” with “f” misread as
“leſs” with long “s”)_
... prise the vynett, xii_d._,
_anomalous final comma in original_
Item, for p’ms letters lxiij^c. . . . prise of a C., j_d._
v iij_d._
_text unchanged: _s._ after “v” missing_]]
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