Texts on Prognostication (c. 1250) - Page 5

⚠The manuscript page is significantly damaged with staining, large tears along the right edge, and faded ink. It appears to be a fragment of a legal document or a flyleaf containing pen trials and ownership notes.

In the name of God, Amen?
I [name] being of [sound and]?
perfect mind and memory [do]?
make and ordain this [to be] my last?
will and testament [in manner following]? This is a standard legal formula used to begin a will, ensuring the testator is of sound mind.

Francis Eyre?, Esquire? A title for a member of the gentry ranking just below a knight.
bearing date the
twenty-fifth day
of December 1603, whereof
it witnesseth? Legal phrasing meaning "it provides evidence that..."
Sir Marmaduke Constable
of Everingham? Knight
North? Cliffe? said?
in the county of York?

The Constable family of Everingham were prominent Catholic landowners in Yorkshire during the 16th and 17th centuries.

From the gift of original: "Ex dono" Vaughan
Scholar of Brasenose College original: "Coll: Br: nasi schol:". This indicates the book or document was a gift from a student at Brasenose College, Oxford.