An anthology of Chancery English

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An anthology of Chancery English
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Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press
1984
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"An anthology of Chancery English." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ChancEng. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2025.

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1418 C81/1364/68 Signet of Henry V


By þe king Worshipful fader yn god right trusty and welbeloued. We grete yow wel / And we sende yow closed wiþin
þis / a copie of a Lettre sent now late vnto vs by þabbot and Conuent of oure hows of Graces beside oure towre
of London / So we wol þ(at) ye shewe al þe fauour and ese þat may be don by lawe and conscience vnto
oure said hows so þat hit be nat spoilled of noon of þe possessions þat Longeth þerto yn no wyse / Vnto þ at
we nowe ordeyne at oure comyng hoom wiþ goddes grace / to put hit yn Reste and quiete / yn asmuche as hit is of oure fundac cion
/ for whiche cause we haue hit moche þe more yn chie rte as reson is / Yeuen vnder oure signet yn oure hoost afore Roan þ e xxj day of Septembre

[ [Calendared with explanation, Kirby 845. Letter follows, no.40 below. For more on the dispute see CPR 1399-1401, pp.274-75; RP IV.110; VCH London I.462.] [torn] ]

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