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SEynt gylbert was borne at sempyngham / and ī his youth he was so abiecte ī his faders House yt the seruauntys dysdeynyd to sytte with hym at mete / and at Scole he lytyll prophytyd / And so he wente into Fraunce / and there he toke degre of Mayster / And when he came ageyne into Englonde he began the ordre of Sempyngham of men and women / He labouryd all
that he coulde for the helthe of so wllys / And to all that he coulde he prophytyd in worde / dede / and exaumple / And his father lykyd his conuersacyon so well that he presen∣tyd hym to the chyrches of sempyngham & tyryngton on a tyme ther fell a lyghte temptacyon bytwyxt hym / & his hostys doughter / And the nyght folowynge he thought in his slepe that he had put his hāde so ferre in her bosom that he coulde not plucke it oute agayne / wherfore he fe∣ryd greatly & lefte that place / And after that virgyn was oon of the .vii. that he began his relygyon vppō / And all that he had aboue his necessary lyuynge he gaue to pore men after he was made preest / & then went to Rome to ye pope engeny to haue the Relygyon of Cisteux assygnyd to haue rule of his Monasteryes / And the Pope wolde not assent therto / ne yet the Cysteux / And then the Pope orderyd yt he shulde appoynt men therto hym selfe / And so he dyd / And in that Iourney he was moche famylyer with seynt malachye Busshoppe of Irlande / and with seynt Bernarde / And to his Bretherne he appoyntyd ye ruell of seynt Augustyne / And to the Susters the rule of seynt benedycte / and what so euyr he myslykyd in eyther of the Rulys he refourmyd / and sent his Rule to Rome where it was cōfermyd / he made .xiii. monasteryes wher¦in at his deth were aboute seuyn Hundred Bretherne / & fyue hundreth Susters / he louyd all his placys lyke mo¦che / and put lyke dylygence for the one / as he dyd for the other / His rydynge apparell was symple / And his com∣panye honest / He absteynyd alwey fro flesshe but in gre¦te sykenes / In lent and Aduenthe absteynyd fro Fysshel He hadde at his table a dysshe that was callyd ye dysshe of Ihesu wherin he put mete for pore men not of the refu∣se
but very good / and after dyner hevsyd Redynge / pray¦er or medytacyon / he were in Wyntre / and Somerlyke many clothys / And he electyd one of his dyscyples to be his mayster & was to hym obedyent / and toke the habyt of a chanon / A man with werynge of his sockys was he∣lyd of the gowte / Also fyre fledde fro the house where he was prayinge and hurte it not / And in the yere of our lor¦de god a thousande a hundred foure score and .ix. the day before the Nonas of February full of good werkys / and good exaumples he went to our Lorde / and was bury∣ed honorably in the monastery of Sempyngham which he had foundyd.