10 (SC 4135)

Described Bernard, 186; PA 3:1168; Watson, 1:515; Scott, 2:327, 329, 330, 345 (date and decoration); K. L. Scott, ‘A Late Fifteenth-Century Group of Nova Statuta Manuscripts in a Bodleian Library Exhibit’ in MSS at Oxford, eds. A. C. de la Mare and B. C. Barker-Benfield (Oxford, 1980), XXIII, pp. 103-5.

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f. 344v

To the worship of God and of all holy chirche and for the comen wele and profit of this Realme of Englond our soueraigne lord henry by the grace of god kyng/e/ of Englond and of Fraunce and lorde of Irlonde the vijth after the conqueste at his parliament holden at Westmynster the xiijth daye of Ianuarye in the fourth yere of his reigne by thaduyce and assent of the lordys spirituell and temporell and the commons in the saide parliament assembled and by auctorite of the same hath doon to be made ordeyned and stablisshed dyuerse statutes and ordenaunces in fourme that folowith

For commissions of sewers First it was showed by the comens in the saide parliament assembled that wherein the parliament of the right noble prince Henry the vjth late kynge of Englond holden at Westmynster the vjth yere of his reigne the considered the grete hurtes and losses which then were by thencreace of water in dyuerse parties of this Realme

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f. 385v

… wherof they plucke of both the noppe of the cotton of the same fustyans and breke comonly both the grounde and the thredes in sondre and after by craftly slikynge make the same Fustyans to appere to the comon people fyne and hoole and sounde and also they reyse vp the … [breaks off]