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Folio 136 Verso
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Nowe feloweth here the maner of a bille by weye •
of supplycation put to the kynge holdinge his noble •
fest of crystmasse in the castell of hartford as in •
dysguysinge of þe rude vpplandishe people complayninge •
on hir wyues / with the boystrus answere of thiyr1 •
wyues / deuysed by lidgate / at þe requeste of the •
count rowlore / Brys slayn at louiers •
Notes
  1. The letter forms are slightly worn, but it appears that the scribe started writing 'thie' before deciding to replace the 'e' with a 'y.' I'm not positive that is what is going on at this point, so I have left it as "thiyr." ↩

The work on this manuscript witness was generously supported by a ZKS-Lendrum Fellowship in the Scientific Study of Manuscripts and Inscriptions at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. The transcription of this work is owned by the editor and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images are (c) British Library Board (British Library Additional MS 29729) and rights are reserved.