Again, on the fly-leaf of an early primer preserved at Ushaw College, Durham, is written :
O blyssed King so full of vertue
The flowr of all Knighthood that never was syled
Thou pray for us to Christe Jhesu
And to hys mother Mary myld
In all thy workys thou was never wyld
But full of grace and charitie
Mercifull ever to man and chylde
Now sweyt Kynge Harre, pray for me.
Among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum (MS. 2887) is the following:
Oratio Beati Henrici Rex [sic] Anglie.
Domine Ihu Xpe qui me creasti, redemisti et pre-destinasti ad hoc quod sum, Tu scis quid de me facere vis, fac de me secundum voluntatem tuam cum misericordia.
This prayer is printed in the Horae of 15 10 (Wynkyn de Worde) and the date is supposed to be 1504.[1] In the same MS. are these other prayers:
Alia Oro.
Dne Ihu Xpe qui solus habes sapientiam, Tu scis que mihi peccatori expediunt prout Tibi placet et sicut in oculis majestatis tue videtur de me peccatore ita fiat cum misericordia ; Qui cum, etc. Amen.
Pater Nr. Ave Maria.
De Beato Henrico
- ↑ Vide Hearne, Otterbourne, i, Pref, p. liv.
