THE MARRIAGE OF ST. CUTHBURGA. 169 



John of Tynemouth, who was born in 1290, Vicar of Tyne- 

 mouth in 1315, and afterwards removed to St. Albans Abbey, 

 where he in all probability died of the plague in 1349. This 

 has been edited by C. Horstman, and printed by the Clarendon 

 Press in 1901. 



John of Tynemouth seems to have been one of the first to 

 compile a Sanctilogium Anglice. There are two copies of 

 this MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and there is a 

 third in the Library at York Minster. There is also another 

 copy in the British Museum, though it has suffered so much 

 from fire that it is charred to a crust. 



In the 15th century, John of Tynemouth's Sanctilogium 

 Anglice was re-arranged in alphabetical order by Capgrave, 

 whose Collection of Lives, with the addition of 15 fresh ones, 

 was beautifully printed in the year 1516 by the celebrated 

 printer, Wynkyn de Worde, under the title " Nova Legenda 

 Anglice." 



These " Legendaries," or Lives of the Saints, in pre-Refor- 

 mation days, were read in the Church as Lections, or Lessons, 

 in the Nocturns ; and were used as Sermons, which on Saints' 

 Days frequently consisted merely of the reading of the lives 

 of the Saints commemorated on those particular days. No 

 doubt they also served as the devotional portions which were 

 read for the edification of the members of Religious Com- 

 munities whilst they took their meals in the Refectories of their 

 Monasteries. 



It should be added that the quotations from Holy Scripture 

 in this Lansdowne Manuscript are as a general rule taken 

 verbatim from the Vulgate, to which the footnotes refer. 



The following is a copy of the Latin MS., with an English 

 translation on the opposite page : 



