Sales catalogue 550: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/99
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 550: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1689 1690 suche thynges of this good bysshop. They sayd faithfully yt it was flesshe yt he ete. And after this saynt Thomas came ta y® pope and dyd his reverence & obedi- ence, whome y® pope welcomed. And after certayne comynycacyon he demanded hym what meet yt he had eten, & he sayd flesshe, as ye haue herde to fore, bycause he coude fynde no fysshe, & very nede compelled him therto. Than the pope under- stode of the myracle yt the capons legge was turned in to a carpe, of his goodnes graunted to hym & to all of them of ye diocese of Canterbury lycence to ete flesshe euer after on saynt Markes days when it falleth on a flesshe day & pardon wt all, whiche is kepte & accustomed unto this day.”’ ‘* Conversion of a Jew.”’ ‘* There was a man yt had borrowed of a Jewe a somme of money, and sware upon the awter of saynt Nycolas that he wolde rendre and paye it agayne as soone as he myght, and gave none other pledge. And this man helde this money so longe that the iewe demanded and asked his money. And he sayd that he had payed him. Than the Jewe made hym, to come before the lawe in judgement, and the othe was gyven to y® dettour, & he brought with hym an holowe staffe, in which he had put the money ingolde, and he lente upon y® staffe. And’ when he sholde make his othe and swere, he delyvered his staffe to ye Jewe to kepe and holde whyles he swere. And then sware yt he had delyvered) to him more than he ought to hym. And wha. he had made the othe he demanded his staffe agavn of the iewe, & he nothynge knowing of his malice delivere it to him. Than this deceyvour went his waye & layd him in the way & a cart with foure wheles came with grete force & slewe him, and brake the staff with golde, that it sprede abrode. And when the iewe herde this,,. he same thyder sore moved, and sawe the fraude. And many sayd to him that he should take te him the golde. And he refused it sayinge. But yf he yt was deed was not raysed agayne to lyfe by ye merites of saynt Nicolas,he wolde not recevve- it. And yt he came agayne to lyfe he wolde recevve baptysm and become chrysten.. Than he that was deed arose, & the iewe was chrystened.’’ Lecenpa Aurea. Another Copy. Folio. Old calf (rebacked). Imprinted at London in Flete Street at the Synge of the Sonne by Wykyn de Worde, 1527. {120 The first leaf, containing the woodcut only, facsimile; and some minor repairs. to a few leaves. WAGSTAFFE (William), 1685-1725. Poet. Rame ties: a Poem, Humbly Inscrib’d to his Grace, the D. of Marlborough. | | First Epirion. Folio. Half morocco, some edges uncut. London, Printed for T. Atkinson at the White-Swan in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1706. £3435 The merit of Wagstaffe’s poems can best be gathered from the fact that many~ have been attributed to Switt.