Although legal records provide much valuable information on the practice of "sodomy" it;l late medieval Italy, such evidence is remarkably scant for other parts of Europe. I The document presented here stands practically alone for medieval England as a description of same-sex intercourse as well as male transvestism.2 It thus helps assess how medieval English society viewed such behavior. Medieval ideas about what modern people call "sexuality" cannot be elucidated only from the writings of canonists and theologians,3 but must also be sought from documents recording social practice. First-person accounts on which scholars might base a reconstruction of an individual's sexual subjectivity are rare in the Middle Ages. When such accounts do appear, they are likely to have arisen in a legal context and to be subject to all sorts of problems of interpretation.4 Nevertheless, as they reflect both the way individuals saw themselves and the way the legal system interpreted their behavior, such accounts are important avenues into medieval constructions of sexuality.