[BISHOP BALE, in the later edition of his Summarium, dated Basle, 1559, thus enters the following series of sermons for the Proprium Sanctorum on his list of Wyclif's works:—
In Evangelia festivalia, lib. I. 'Hoc Evangelium historicè narrat.'
The writer, whether Wyclif or not, composed the thirty-eight [By an error of the scribe these sermons are numbered as thirty|seven only in MS. Bodl. 788, the same number being assigned to ser|mons CIV and CV; and the mis|take is repeated in Dr. Shirley's Catalogue.] sermons which follow upon gospels which he took, partly from the Proprium de Tempore, partly from the Proprium Sanctorum or Sanctorale, of the Sarum Missal. The title 'Proprium Sanctorum' is not therefore strictly appropriate. Those on gospels taken from the 'Proper of the Season' are ten in number, and are numbered in the present edition LXXXIX to XCVII and CIV. The offices for the first nine of the festivals thus included in the writer's plan, stand all in close juxtaposition in the Sarum Missal, except that the office for St. Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas à Becket,) comes between those for the Holy Innocents and the Sixth Day after Christmas, and St. Sylvester precedes the Cir|cumcision. The omission of St. Thomas' feast by the writer is perhaps significant, and may be taken as the first premonitory symptom of the storm raised against the Archbishop's memory, and against the popular devotion to him, in the reign of Henry VIII.]
ÞE GOSPEL ON SEINT ANDREUS EVYN.
[SERMON LXXXVI.]
Stabat Johannes.—JOHN i. [29.]
ÞIS gospel telliþ in storie, how Crist gederide his disciplis, and seiþ, þat Joon stood and two of Joones disciplis, and Joon biheld Jesus wandringe, and seide þus of him: Lo, þe lombe of God. Joon Baptist was bifore Crist to make þe weie redi to
