ABSTRACT

134 b Goode men and woymen, suche a day 3e schull haue Seynt Bartholomews day þat ys Godys holy apostoll. Wherfor 3e schull 8 fast his euen, and com on þe morow to þe chirch, and worschip God and his holy apostull. Þen schull 3e know þat Bartholomew ys yn Lateyne ‘Bartholomeus; et interpretatur: filius suspendentis aquas, siue filius suspendentis me.’ This Bartholomew ys vndyr- 12 stond yn Englysche: þe sone of hongyng vp watyrs oþer hongyng vp me.