12. #habben#: read habbe as in H^1, H^2; C, E have hæbbe. For #toleten#, granted, E, H^1, H^2 have to gelæten. The Latin has ‘super tot theines[;] quot eis concessit Rex Willelmus proauus meus,’ which is probably the correct version. 13. #þeron theo#: ‘þær on teo,’ C, E; ‘þær on tyo,’ H^1; ‘þer on tyo,’ H^2. The Latin ‘se intromittat,’ meddle (also in H^1, H^2), is not an equivalent, but rather ‘subtrahere,’ ‘exigere,’ ‘ad se trahere’ of similar documents. The meaning is, take any thing from these lands and rights: for #þer on#, comp. ‘ne teó se hláford ná máre on his ǽhte butan his rihtan heregeate,’ Schmid, Gesetze, 308. Fuller expressions are ‘ænig þæra sócna him to hánda drægen,’ Kemble, iv. 222: ‘fram honde téo,’ id. 212, 196: ‘of handa átéo,’ id. 226. #þe#, to whom: see 46/292. 14. #for þan þingan#, for the reason that, because: see the examples of the phrase in B-T., p. 1060. C has for þā; H^1 for þam þingan; E, H^2, as in the text. 15. #to echere alisendnesse#, for the eternal salvation of my soul; comp. ‘to ecere alysednysse,’ Ælfric, Lives, 258/320, ii. 154/178. Keller prints eche, treating the curl attached to the final _e_ as a mere flourish, but the scribe’s model, H^2, had æcere: see 23/161. 16. #bi#, as concerning, having regard to, i.e. on pain of losing. Comp. ‘unrihtwisan deman þe heora domas awendað æfre be þam sceattum,’ Ælfric, Lives, 430/233; ‘bebead eallum his folce, be heora life, þæt hí sceoldon feallan adune,’ Ælf. Hom. Cath. ii. 18/23; ‘þat ælc mon bi his liue[;] comen to him swiðe, | bi heore liue & bi heore leme,’ L 19434. _Cross-References_ 1/3 (note) = I. A (Worcester Fragments) 15/87 (note) = V. (A Parable) _Errata_ The charter is then a patchwork ... land inne frēondlice [_printed as shown: expected form “frēondlīce”_] binnan burgum ⁊ butan ... butan hī ⁊ heora [_printed as shown: expected form “būtan”_] ... alisendnesse is OE. #ālīesednesse# (but once #ālȝsendnesse#) [_initial ā in both words corrected by author from “a”_] #ā# + #w# is _au_ in saule [_#ā# corrected by author from #a#_] 7. ... #Ūtfangeneþēof# was the right to hang one’s own thief wherever caught [Utfangeneþēof] V. A PARABLE #Manuscript:# Cotton Vespasian A 22, British Museum. It is composite; a second MS., 224 × 153 mm. in two columns, begins at f. 54 with the pieces printed in OEH i. 217-45. It is written in a small and crabbed hand unlike that of a professed scribe. The use of the contraction marks is unsystematic and the readings are sometimes uncertain. The other articles bound up with this MS. before and after are historical and largely connected with Rochester Monastery. #Editions:# Morris, R., Old English Homilies, i, pp. 231-41 (with translation), and Specimens of Early English.