Staffordshire, County Record Office, WSL D 1721/3/186
| England |
| Staffordshire |
| County Record Office |
| WSL D 1721/3/186 |
| Hamper MS |
| s. xvin |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire, 'S Staffs'. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239). |
A poem on a piece of paper collected together with other miscellaneous documents. Perhaps a poem circulating independently for copying.
Item: 1 |
| On King Richard's Ministers (IMEV 3529) |
| 'Žer is a busch žat is forgrowe'. |
| 'That were in point to spylle'. |
Wright 1859, pp. 363-366.
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| Paper. The piece of paper now measures 300 x 120 mm but looks as though it has been torn in half vertically and should have been 300 x 240 mm. The poem is intact and was therefore written when the paper was at its present size.
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| 300 x 120 mm |
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| Single column. No ruling or pricking |
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One scribe writing in an Anglicana hand. Characteristics: reversed circular e in final position; v-shaped r in medial position; 8-shaped g; B-shaped w; sigma s in initial and final positions; 2-shaped r in medial position. Body height: c. 2 mm.
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| Good |
| Unknown |
| Unknown. Hand-written note with poem - 'enclosed original poem presented to me by Wm Hamper of Birmingham, was written about the end of Ric: II reign...'.
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Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
- Wright, T. ed, 1859-61. Political Poems and Songs relating to English history, composed during the period from the accession of Edw. III to that of Ric. III, Rolls Series 14, 2 vols, New York: Kraus Reprint 1964, i, p. 363.
