Dr. IncramM—On Medieval Moralized Tales. 133 
“<9, Haec sunt privilegia diei Veneris. 
‘“‘ Remarkable events which happened on Friday, and the 
reasons for fasting on that day. | 
“*3. Pater noster. 
‘(A commentary on the Lord’s Prayer. | 
“4, Credo in Deum. 
‘“‘TA commentary on the Creed. | 
“5. A tract beginning: ‘In Hibernia primum predicavit beatus 
Patricius verbum Christi.’ 
‘‘ This is a very curious tract. It mentions at the begin- 
ning that our Lord appeared to St. Patrick, and gave him 
two precious gifts, viz., a copy of the Gospels, and a staff— 
both which (says the author) are preserved in Ireland to this 
day. It then goes on to describe St. Patrick’s Purgatory, 
and the visions of an English knight, who entered it in the 
reign of King Stephen. 
‘‘ This is no doubt the ‘ History of the Knight’ mentioned 
in the Annals of Ulster at a.p. 1497. See O’Donovan’s 
Four Masters, p. 1238, note. |’ 
‘6. ‘Iste liber est qui docet vivere perfecte, et est nominatus specu- 
lum Sancti Edmundi Confessoris.’ 
“(This work is printed in the Lyons Biblioth. Patrum: 
vol. xxy., p. 316. It is sometimes called ‘Speculum Ecclesiz.’ 
This copy differs a good deal in various readings from the 
printed editions. | 
‘St Edmund was Abp. of Canterbury, and died a.p. 1246. 
“7, ‘ Utilitates missze : et sex cause inductionis contritionis. De sero 
penitentibus.’ 
‘‘( Here a page and a half are blank. | 
“8. ‘Hie incipit tractatus beati Roberti Lincolniensis Episcopi de 
penis purgatorii.’ 
‘‘(This work was never printed. It is by Robert Grost- 
head, alias Copley, Bp. of Lincoln, a.p. 1230. 
“¢< This tract ends thus: ‘De quo dolore nos defen- 
dat qui sine fine yivit et imperat. Amen q* do’ Johannes 
Ardyslay.’ 
‘“This John Ardyslay was therefore probably the tran- 
scriber of the volume. | 
1 T have transcribed this tract, though I do not propose to make any use of it in 
the present Paper. It is in substance the same with the story of the ‘‘ Miles,’’ told 
in Messingham’s Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum; but the narrative is given in the 
Derry volume in very simple and popular language, and without any of the rhetori- 
cal amplification which is found in Messingham.—J. K. I, 
