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Rh Again, on the fly-leaf of an early primer preserved at Ushaw College, Durham, is written :

O blyssed King so full of vertue

The flowr of all Knighthood that never was syled

Thou pray for us to Christe Jhesu

And to hys mother Mary myld

In all thy workys thou was never wyld

But full of grace and charitie

Mercifull ever to man and chylde

Now sweyt Kynge Harre, pray for me.

Among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum (MS. 2887) is the following:

[sic]

Domine Ihu Xpe qui me creasti, redemisti et pre-destinasti ad hoc quod sum, Tu scis quid de me facere vis, fac de me secundum voluntatem tuam cum misericordia.

This prayer is printed in the Horae of 15 10 (Wynkyn de Worde) and the date is supposed to be 1504. In the same MS. are these other prayers:

Dne Ihu Xpe qui solus habes sapientiam, Tu scis que mihi peccatori expediunt prout Tibi placet et sicut in oculis majestatis tue videtur de me peccatore ita fiat cum misericordia ; Qui cum, etc. Amen.

Pater Nr. Ave Maria.

De Beato Henrico