as sauf as they were put in his owen propre hous And
also suche hoostis ought to hold seruantes in their
houses whiche shold be trewe and wyth oute auarice
In suche wise that they coueyte not to haue the goodes
of their ghestes And that they take not away the prouender
fro theyr horses whan hyt is gyuen to them/ that by
thoccasion therof theyr horsis perisshe not ne faylle
theyr maister whan they haue nede/ and myght falle
in the handes of theyr enemyes/ For than sholde the
seruantes because of that euyll/ wherfore theyr maisters
shold see to For wyth oute doubte this thynge is worse
than thefte Hit happend on a tyme in the parties of
lomberdye in the cyte of Iene y’t a noble man
was logged in an hostelerye wyth moche compaignye/
And whan they had gyuen prouendour to their horses/
In the first oure of the nyght, the seruant of the
hous cam secretly to fore y’e horses for to stele
away their prouender/ And whan he cam to the lordes
hors/ The hors caught wyth his teth his Arme and helde
hit faste that he myght not escape/ And whan the theef
sawe that he was so strongly holden/ he began to crye
for the grete payne that he suffryd and felte/ In
suche wyse that the noble mannes meyne cam with the
hooste/ But in no maner/ ner for ought they coude
doo They coude not take the theef out of the horses
mouth vnto the tyme that the neyghbours whiche were
noyed wyth the noyse cam and sawe hit/ And than the
theef was knowen and taken and brought to fore the
Iuge And confessid the feet and by sentence diffinytyf
was hanged and lost his lyf/ And in the same wyse
was an other that dyde so/ And the hors smote hym
in the visage/ That the prynte of the horse shoo and
nayles abode euer in his visage/ Another was right
cruell and villaynous fylle at tholouse/ Hit happend
a Ionge man and his fader wente a pilgremage to saynt
Iames in Galyce And were logged in an hostelrye of
an euyll hoost and full of right grete couetyse/ In
so moche that he defired and coueyted the goodes of
the two pilgrimes And here vpon auysed hym and put
a cuppe of siluer secretly in the male that the yonge
man bare/ And whan they departed oute of their loggynge/
he folowed after hem and sayd to fore the peple of
the court that they had stolen and born away his cuppe/
And the yonge man excused hym selfe and his fader/
And sayde they were Innocent of that caas/ And than
they serchid hem and the cuppe was founden in the
male of the yonge man And forthwyth he was dampned
to the deth and hanged as a theef/ and this feet doon
all the goodes that langed to the pilgrym were deliuerid
to the ooft as c[=o]fisqued And than the fader wente
for to do his pilgremage/ and whan he cam agayn he
muste nedes come & passe by the place where his sone
henge on the gibet And as he cam he complaygned to
god and to saynt Iames how they might suffre this
auenture to come vnto his sone,’ Anone his sone
that henge spack to his fader And sayde how that saynt
Iames had kepte hym with out harme And bad his fader
goo to the Iuge and shewe to hym the myracle/ And


