Excerpt from The Prymer, or Prayer-Book of the Lay People in the Middle Ages, Vol. 1: In English Dating About 1400 A. D.; Text Part II., containing the Introduction and Notes, will not, in all probability, be ready for some few years; consequently it is necessary to take the present opportunity to refer to the kindness through which Ihave been enabled to carry out the present work, and also to make some reference to the plan adopted. My thanks are due to the authorities of St. John's College, not only for permission to transcribe and publish the present volume, but also for their kindness in depositing the manuscript for a time, for my use, at the British Museum, the sole condition being that Mr. Scott, Keeper of the mss., would undertake the charge of it. To Mr. Scott my thanks are due for unhesitatingly accepting this responsibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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