Gives different Soteltes (or Devices at the end of each course), and omits Russell’s description of his four of the Four Seasons, p. 51-4; and does not alter the metre of the lines describing the Dinners as he does, p. 50-5. --Differs from R., nearly as Sl. 1315 does. Winds up at the end of the _Bathe or Stewe_, l. 1000, p. 69, R., with two stanzas of peroration. As there is no _Explicit_, the MS. may be incomplete, but the next page is blank. --Has 3 winding-up stanzas, as if about to end as Sloane 1315 does, but yet goes on (omitting the _Bathe Medicinable_) with the _Vssher and Marshalle_, R. p. 69, and ends suddenly, at l. 1062, p. 72, R., in the middle of the chapter. In occasional length of line, in words and rhymes, Sloane 1315 differs far more from Russell than Sloane 2027, which has Russell’s long lines and rhymes throughout, so far as a hurried examination shows. But the variations of both these Sloane MSS. are to me more like those from an original MS. of which our Harleian Russell is a copy, than of an original which Russell altered. Why should the earliest Sloane 2027 start with “An vsschere .y. am / as ye may se : to a prynce Of hygh{e} degre” if in its original the name of the prince was not stated at the end, as Russell states it, to show that he was not gammoning his readers? Why does Sloane 1315 omit lines in some of its stanzas, and words in some of its lines, that the Harleian Russell enables us to fill up? Why does it too make its writer refer to the pupil’s lord and sovereign, if in its original the author did not clench his teaching by asserting, as Russell does, that he had served one? This Sloane 1315 may well have been copied by a man like Wynkyn de Worde, who wished not to show the real writer of the treatise. On the whole, I incline to believe that John Russell’s Book of Norture was written by him, and that either the Epilogue to it was a fiction of his, or was written by the superintender of the particular copy in the Harleian MS. 4011, Russell’s own work terminating with the _Amen!_ after line 1234.