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Excerpt from The Lives of Women Saints of Our Contrie of England: Also Some Other Liues of Holie Women Written by Some of the Auncient Fathers, (C. 1610 1615) When searching Bokenham's second collection of lives of Saints which he mentions as his work in his Mappula Angliae (lately published in Eng. Studien, 1886), I found not it (it seems indeed to be lost), but the present collection which I had not before known of. This set of Female Saint's Lives is in a unique Ms., Ms. Stowe 949, in which, p. 1, the former owner has written 'Bibl. Thomae Astlei Arm., ' and then added: 'This Ms. has not been printed, and the Lives in it are very different from those published in the Britannia Sancta: the following Lives abound with wonderful miracles and marvellous relations which are omitted in the printed works.' This Ms., 8, paper, numbering 357 pages, and containing only the present collection, is carefully written and executed, in a fine and legible hand, which has used italics in the titles, quotations, and proper names, and added marginal notes, headlines, and indexes. It is very correct, and might seem to be the author's own Ms. but for a few mistakes which only a scribe could have made (f. i. p. 70, 12 'they for' instead of 'therfor')it was no doubt copied directly from the original Ms., and is most likely the clean transcript from tho author's draft. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.