"The rule set upon White Bakers and Brown Bakers, --The rule is that white bakers should inowe make and bake all manner of bread, and that they can make of wheat: that is for to say, white loaf bread, wastell buns, and all manner white bread that hath been used of old time; and they inowe make wheat bread sometimes called Crybill bread, and basket bread such as is sold in Cheep to poor people. But the white bread baker shall bake no horse bread of any assise, neither of his own neither of none other men's, to sell. The brown baker shall inowe make and bake wheat bread as it cometh ground from the mill, without any boulting of the same; also horse bread of clean beans and peason; and also bread called household bread, for the which they shall take for every bushel kneading bringing home 1 penny; but they shall bake no white bread of any assise, neither of their own, neither of none other men's, to sell. And what person of the said bakers offend in any of the articles above writ, shall as oft as he may be proved guilty pay 6s. 8d., half to the use of the Chamber of London, and the other half to the use of the master of the bakers. "THE ASSISE OF BREAD WITHIN LONDON. "Mem.--That the farthing loaf of all grains, and the farthing horse loaf, is of like weight. "Mem.--That the halfpenny white loaf of Stratford must weigh two ounces more than the halfpenny white loaf of London. "That the penny wheat loaf of Stratford must weigh six oz. more than the penny wheat loaf of London. "The halfpenny wheat loaf of Stratford must weigh three ounces more than the halfpenny wheat loaf of London. "Three halfpenny white loaves of Stratford must weigh as much as the penny wheat loaf. "The loaf of all grains: that is, the wheat loaf, must weigh as much as the penny wheat loaf and the half-penny white loaf. "The chete white loaf must weigh 12 oz. "The chete white brown loaf must weigh 18 oz." After so much solid matter, our repast shall be completed with something of a lighter kind. A list of "Divers good proverbs" is curious, as showing the long growth and long endurance of established maxims of practical wisdom. They are written in a distinct and singular hand, not to be traced elsewhere in prose or poetry:--