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two coloured facsimiles of this little pamphlet explain themselves. The Manual, which was the medieval priest's handbook for the services of Baptism, Marriage, Visitation of the Sick, Burial, etc., is virtually the only one of the medieval Latin service-books which contained invariably a certain proportion of its text in English. The text of the English varies in a measure in different MSS.