A dictum ‘per Magistrum Askett anno vi. H. viii. in quaresme’, referring to Richard Hesketh (d. 1520?) in Gray's Inn, Lent 1515 in the hand of Walter Atwell.

The table apparently belonged to a large collection of year books, covering a large period from the 1st year of the reign of Edward II (1307/8) until the 31st year of the reign of King Henry VI (1452/3).

Full transcription; added by Walter Atwell.

The report is dated to ‘Tr. xx^o H. vii’.

Copy of the beginning of an alphabetical abridgement of year-book cases. The cases have the titles ‘Accompt’ and ‘Age’. The latest cases included date to 27 Henry VI. The text ends imperfectly.

There is an internal reference on f. 19r to ‘Magister Litelton en ses tenures’ which probably fixes the date after 1481 (see Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.11.60).

With a marginal reference to Westminster II. Perhaps taken from an abridgment of the book of assizes with cases up to King Henry VI. At the top of f. 20v there is a reference to the item on ff. 41v-49v: ‘Vide en le Report de old Spylman puis en cest lyver sur lestatue W. ij^d capitulo xxv’. Spylman refers to John Spelman (d. 1545), bencher of Gray's Inn.

Begins with a table of four weeks' lectures (beginning: ‘Prima septimana. Curia parliamenti’); the first lecture begins: ‘Acte de parlement: En lescheker chambre Fortescue rehersa coment all parlmement’

The reader may be identified from cross-references on ff. 43v-44v as Morgan Kydwelly (d. 1505), who was a governor of the Inner Temple in 1486 and attorney-general 1483-85. The probable date of the reading is 1482-1383.

The text contains various marginal annotations by Atwell, including: ‘Vide report de Fitzherberd de Grays in pur beale plede [...] ove Magister Goldylham’ (f. 32v), referring to the reading by Anthony Fitzherbert (d. 1539) on the Statue of Marlborough, c. 11, in Gray's in c. 1510, apparently in a text belonging to Fitzherbert and Goldingham; ‘bon mater pur courtz en lez novels abryggementes dez termez’ (f. 33v), probably a reference to Anthony Fitherbert's La Graunde Abridgement , published c. 1514-16; ‘Memorandum my cramp ryng ove Golsmyth’ (f. 34v); ‘Memorandum xii^o H. vii [...] en lyver A.F.’ (f. 37v), another reference to Fitzherbert; ‘Vide le lecture de Marow [...]’ (f. 39r), a reference to the item on ff. 62r-95r; for further details on Fitzherbert and Goldingham see Baker and Ringrose (1996), pp. 209-210.

This leaf has been inserted later and contains a text by a different hand, writing in a Secretary script; it may have been added by Walter Atwell to supplement the Reading on Magna Carta on ff. 26r-41r.

The reading is that of Henry Spelman (d. 1496) on Westminster, chapter 25, in Gay's Inn before 1458 as indicated by a cross-reference on f. 20v. Another copy is extant in MS Hh.2.6 which has been edited and translated in Selden Society 71:1-37 [where c. 1452 is suggested as a date for the reading]. For further details, see Baker and Ringrose (1996), p. 210.

The traverse was taken on 26 May 1506 by the duchess of Norfolk.

The record is cited as Common Pleas, Michaelmas 10 Henry VII, rot. 342. Kydwelly was seated at Langton. A John Atwell (d. 1503?) was rector of Exeter College, Oxford; another (d. 1508) was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. The chaplain sued Kydwelly's widow, Jane, between 1505 and 1515 (Selden Society 94: 325). Walter Atwell, the compiler of this manuscript, was presumably a close relation.

Full transcription; added by Walter Atwell.

Full transcription; the mnemonic is here attributed to John Cokkys (d. by 1475), physician and clerk of Oxford; added by Walter Atwell.

Alongside the title of the work is written ‘Jhesus mercye gramercy’; this line and prophecy are added by by Walter Atwell.

Two medical recipes for ‘an ese of laxe’ and ‘suppositories’; added by Walter Atwell.

The recipe is attributed to John Cokkys (d. by 1475), physician and clerk of Oxford; added by Walter Atwell.

Full transcription; ‘Billyngton’ perhaps is George Billington of Strand Inn (sued for dues in 1503 and on subsequent occasions down to 1538, described in some actions as 'clerk') and of the Middle Temple (sued for dues 1528); Walter Atwell was also of Stand Inn; added by Walter Atwell.

Full transcription.

The poem is ascribed to ‘Skeltonidis laureati’.

Including two cases from the time of King Henry VII and a dictum by Fyneux C.J. (‘Fynyouz’).

On f. 55r is a dictum ‘per Malet en le sale et per tout le bank’, referrring to the bench of the Inner Temple; for a detailed discussion of this text see Baker and Ringrose (1996), p. 211 [item 15].

The reading is of William Huntley (d. before 1507), in the Inner Temple, Autumn 1499 (see Selden Society 102: xxxviii, 174).

Probably a Gray's Inn reading as suggested by the name ‘Wangford’ (f. 46v), which is William Wangford (d. 1458), serjeant 1453, who also spoke at Spelman's reading (see ff. 41v-49v).

The notes include case from the reign of Henry VII or Henry VIII (before 1519) in which ‘S^r Rede’ and ‘S^r Fynous’ speak; the chief justices are Rede C.J.C.P. 1506-1519 and Fyneux C.J.K.B. 1495-1525.

The reference is to a ‘lecture de Magistro Askett in principio magni libri terminorum et annorum’ (also cited on f. i recto); The 'Great Book of Terms and Years' may be that from which the table survives at f. 1r.

This note apparently relates to a case from the reign of King Henry VII described on ff. 96r-96v.

The identity of the reader is confirmed by the headline on f. 100v: ‘anno vii H. viii. tempore quadragesime Tyngelden’; and the margin of f. 99v:‘arg. in Greys In’. For more information on this text, see Baker and Ringrose (1996), p. 213.

From an unidentified reading in Gray's Inn on Westminster I, c. 2. For more information on this text, see Baker and Ringrose (1996), p. 213.

Not read, but the note refers to ‘xxij die anno xiij h. viij’.

The table, which describes the whole volume, is written in the hand of Walter Atwell.

Full transcription. Attributed to a grocer named 'Cartlagg' (?Cartledge).

La Graunde Abridgement by Sir Robert Brooke (d. 1588) was first printed in 1573.