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Early English Text Society.

Committee of Management:

DANBY P. FRY, Esq.
FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL, Esq.
FITZEDWARD HALL, Esq.
REV. J. RAWSON LUMBY.

RICHARD MORRIS, Esq.
H. T. PARKER, Esq.
REV. GEORGE G. PERRY.
REV. WALTER W. SKEAT.

HENRY B. WHEATLEY, Esq.

(With power to add Workers to their number.)

Honorary Secretary:

HENRY B. WHEATLEY, Esq., 53 BERNERS STREET, LONDON, W.

Bankers:

THE UNION BANK OF LONDON, REGENT STREET BRANCH,
14 ARGYLL PLACE, W.

The Publications for 1864-65 and '66 are out of print, but a Reprinting Fund is now open for reprinting them. Thirty members are wanted to complete the 1864 subscription. A few copies of separate texts remain: of No. 4,-Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, ab. 1320-30, edited by R. Morris, Esq., 10s.; and No. 5, of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue, be Alexander Hume, ab. 1617 A.D., edited by Henry B. Wheatley, Esq., 48.

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13. SEINTE MARHERETE, be Meiden ant Martyr. Three Texts of ab. A.D. 1200, 1310, 1330. First edited in 1862 by the Rev. Oswald Cockayne, M.A., and now re-issued.

2s.

14. THE ROMANCE OF KYNG HORN, FLORIS AND BLANCHEFLOUR, AND THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. Edited from the MS. in the Library of the University of Cambridge, by the Rev. J. Rawson Lumby. 3s. 6d.

15. POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND LOVE POEMS, from the Lambeth MS. No. 306, and other sources. Edited by F. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A. 7s. 6d.

16. A TRETICE IN ENGLISCH breuely drawe out of be book of Quintis essencijs in Latyn, pat Hermys be prophete and king of Egipt, after be flood of Noe, fader of Philosophris, hadde by reuelacioun of an aungil of God to him sente. Edited from the Sloane MS. 73, by F. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A. 1s.

17. PARALLEL EXTRACTS FROM TWENTY-NINE MSS. OF PIERS PLOWMAN, with Comments, and a Proposal for the Society's Three-Text Edition of the Poem. By the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 1s.

18. HALI MEIDENHAD, ab. 1200 A.D. Edited for the first time from the MS. (with a translation), by the Rev. Oswald Cockayne, M.A. 1s.

19. SIR DAVID LYNDESAY'S MONARCHE, Part II., the Complaynt of the King's Papingo, and other Minor Poems. Edited from the first editions, by Fitzedward Hall, Esq., D.C.L. 3s. 6d. 20. SOME TREATISES BY RICHARD ROLLE DE HAMPOLE. Edited from Robert of

Thorntone's MS., ab. 1440 A.D., by the Rev. G. Perry, M.A. 1s.

21. MERLIN, OR THE EARLY HISTORY OF ARTHUR. Edited for the first time from the unique MS. in the Cambridge University Library about 1450 A.D. Part II. Edited by Henry B. Wheatley, Esq. 4s.

22. THE ROMANCE OF PARTENAY OR LUSIGNEN. Edited for the first time from the unique MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 6s.

23. DAN MICHEL'S AYENBITE OF INWYT, or Remorse of Conscience, in the Kentish dialect, 1340 A.D. Edited from the unique MS. in the British Museum, by Richard Morris, Esq. 10s. 6d.

The Society's Report, January 1867, with Lists of Texts to be published in future years, etc., etc. can be had on application to the Hon. Secretary, HENRY B. WHEATLEY, Esq., 53 Berners Street, W.

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Early English Text Society.

The Subscription is £1 1s. a year, and another for the Extra Series of re-edited works, due in advance on the 1st of JANUARY, and should be paid either to the Society's Account at the Union Bank of London, 14 Argyll Place, Regent Street, W., or by post-office order (made payable to the Chief Office, London) to the Hon. Secretary, HENRY B. WHEATLEY, Esq., 53 Berners Street, London, W.

List of Works proposed for publication in 1867, by the Early English Text Society. 24. HYMNS TO THE VIRGIN AND CHRIST; THE PARLIAMENT OF DEVILS; AND OTHER RELIGIOUS POEMS. Edited from the Lambeth MS. 853, by F. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A. 3s. 25. THE STATIONS OF ROME, AND THE PILGRIMS' SEA-VOYAGE AND SEA-SICKNESS, WITII CLENE MAYDENHOD. Edited from the Vernon and Porkington MSS., &c., by

F. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A. 1s.

26. RELIGIOUS PIECES IN PROSE AND VERSE.

1440 A.D.) by the Rev. G. G. Perry, M.A. 2s.

Edited from Robert Thornton's MS. (ab.

27. LEVINS'S MANIPULUS, 1570; the earliest Rhyming Dictionary. To be Edited by Henry B. Wheatley, Esq. 12s.

28. LANGLANDE'S VISION OF PIERS PLOWMAN: the earliest Version from the earliest MS. Collated throughout with three other MSS. of the same (or earliest) type. To be edited by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 78. 29. ENGLISH GILDS, THEIR STATUTES AND CUSTOMS: with an Introduction, and an Appendix of translated Statutes. To be edited from the MSS. 1389 A.D. by Toulmin Smith, Esq. [In the Press. 30. PIERS PLOWMAN'S CREDE. To be edited from the MSS. by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 2s.

For 1868.

31. MIRK'S DUTIES OF A PARISH PRIEST, IN VERSE. To be edited for the first time from the MSS. in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries (ab. 1420 A.D.) by E. Peacock, Esq. [In the Press. 32. THE BABEES BOKE, THE CHILDREN'S BOOK, URBANITATIS, THE BOKES OF NORTURE OF JOHN RUSSELL AND HUGH RHODES, THE BOKES OF KERUYNG, CORTASYE, AND DEMEANOUR, &c., with some French and Latin Poems on like subjects. To be edited from Harleian and other MSS. by F. J. Furnivall Esq. M.A. [In the Press. 33. THE KNIGHT DE LA TOUR LANDRY, 1372: a Father's book for his daughters. To be edited from the Harleian MSS. 1764, by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., and Mr. William Rossiter. [In the Press. 34. EARLY ENGLISH HOMILIES (ab. 1220-30 A.D.) from unique MSS. in Lambeth and Trinity College, Cambridge, Libraries. To be edited by R. Morris, Esq. [In the Press. 35. MERLIN. Part III. To be edited by H. B. Wheatley, Esq. [Copied.

For 1869.

VARIOUS POEMS RELATING TO SIR GAWAINE. To be edited from the MSS. by R. Morris, Esq. PALLADIUS ON HUSBONDRIE; the earliest English Poem on Husbandry. To be edited from the unique MS. in Colchester Castle (ab. 1425 A.D.) by the Rev. Barton Lodge, M.A. Part I. [In the Press. THE RULE OF ST. BENET. Four Texts: 1. Anglo-Saxon and 2. Semi-Saxon Prose: 3. Northern Verse of the 15th Century: 4. Fox's Prose Version, 1530. Edited from MSS. and a black letter copy, by Richard Morris, Esq. [In the Press. THE ALLITERATIVE ROMANCE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY. Translated from GUIDO de COLONNA. To be edited from the unique MS. in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, by the Rev. G. A. Panton. [In the Press. SIR DAVID LYNDESAY'S WORKS. Part III. POEMS ON MANNERS AND MORALS, in the Cambridge University Library. Two Texts.

To be edited by F. Hall, Esq., D.C.L.
Northern Dialect, from a unique MS. in the
To be edited by the Rev. J. R. Lumby, M.A.
[In the Press.

Extra Series. (8vo. £1 1s.; Large Papers, £2 2s.)

1867. I. WILLIAM AND THE WEREWOLF. Re-edited from the unique MS. by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. [In the Press.

II. CHAUCER'S PROSE WORKS. To be edited from the MSS. by R. Morris, Esq. Part I. 1868. I. CHAUCER'S PROSE WORKS. Part II.

II. MALEORE'S MORTE D'ARTHUR. Caxton's edition. Part I.

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Bishop Percy's
Folio Manuscript.

This long hidden MS., the foundation of the celebrated PERCY'S RELIQUES, will be printed in 4 Volumes (BALLADS and ROMANCES, 3 Vols.; LOOSE and HUMOROUS SONGS, 1 Vol.) of the following sizes, and at the following Subscriptions :

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Large 4to., on Whatman's Best Ribbed Paper, made expressly by Messrs. Balston of Maidstone for this edition. (65 copies printed: 50 for Subscribers, 10 for Public Libraries, 5 for the Editors)............ 10 10

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Demy 8vo., for Members of the Early English Text
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Subscriptions should be sent, with Subscribers' Names, to F. J. FURNIVALL, Esq., 3 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C., Post Office Orders being made payable to him at the Chancery Lane Post Office, and Cheques to THE PERCY MANUSCRIPT FUND, crossed 'Union Bank, Chancery Lane.' Messrs. Trübner & Co. also receive Subscriptions.

Vol. I., and Part I. of Vol. II., of the BALLADS and ROMANCES, and the LOOSE and HUMOROUS SONGS, are published. Part II. of Vol. II. of the BALLADS and ROMANCES will be ready in September, and will be issued then, or with Vol. III., early in October.

The prices of all the editions will be raised, to the public, on the completion

of the work.

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