On CXXXIII _a_ (Life of S. Byrgette) the date M.CCCCCXVI. XX Feb. On the verso Pynson's device with break in lower border. At the end of Hylton's tract B VIII _a_ the date MCCCCCXVI last daye of Feb. On the verso Pynson's device with break in lower border. Hearne's preface to _Otterbourne_ (I, p. xliv) contains some interesting matter bearing on the tract, which I summarize here. No one, he says, except John Blakman has yet written a special life of Henry VI, and Blakman's is not an _opus absolutum_ but a "fragmentum duntaxat operis longe majoris alicubi forte nunc etiam latentis." Vita haecce qualiscunque in lucem prodiit Londini A.D. M.D.X. a Roberto Coplandio ... excusus. Eiusdem exemplaria adeo rara sunt ut vix reperias in bibliothecis etiam instructissimis. Penes se autem habet amicus excultissimus Jacobus Westus, qui pro necessitudine illa quae inter nos intercedit, non tantum mutuo dedit, sed et licentiam concessit exscribendi. Id quod feci. West had acquired his copy by purchase, among a number of printed books formerly the property of Archbishop Sancroft. On p. xlix Hearne tells us that Sancroft had written the following note in his copy of the tract: Hunc libellum conscribendum curavit Henricus VIIus, cum Julio papa II agens de Henrico VI in Sanctorum numerum referendo. De quo vide Jac. Waraei annales H. 7. Aº 1504. Ware (and Hearne) print the Bull of Julius, directing an inquiry into Henry's sanctity and miracles. I may add that some part of the results of this negotiation may be seen in the manuscript collection of Henry VIth's miracles preserved in the Royal MS. 13. C. VIII and in the MS. Harley 423 (a partial copy of the other), both in the British Museum.[1] Furthermore Hearne reprints what is properly called a _Memoria_ of King Henry VI such as is to be found in a fairly large number of Books of Hours or Primers both manuscript and printed. Hearne's text is taken from _Horae_ printed by Wynkyn de Worde 1510, f. cli _a_, and is as follows. _A prayer to holy kynge Henry._ Rex Henricus sis amicus nobis in angustia Cuius prece nos a nece saluemur perpetua Lampas morum spes egrorum ferens medicamina Sis tuorum famulorum ductor ad celestia. Pax in terra non sit guerra orbis per confinia Virtus crescat et feruescat charitas per omnia Non sudore uel dolore moriamur subito Sed viuamus et plaudamus celis sine termino. _Ver._ Ora pro nobis deuote rex Henrice. _Resp._ Ut per te cuncti superati sint inimici. Oremus. Presta, quesumus, omnipotens et misericors deus, ut qui deuotissimi regis Henrici merita miraculis fulgentia pie mentis affectu recolimus in terris, eius et omnium sanctorum tuorum intercessionibus ab omni per te febre, morbo, ac improuisa morte ceterisque eruamur malis, et gaudia sempiterna adipisci mereamur. Per Christum dominum nostrum. Amen.