A Sermon in Praise of Thieves and Thievery.


[MS. Cott. Vesp. A xxv. leaf 53]

A sermo

of parson Hyberdyne which he made att the commandemente of certen theves, after thay had Robbed hym, besydes hartlerowe, in hamshyer, in the feldes, ther standinge vpon a hy

where as a wynde myll had bene, in the presens of the theves that robbed hym, as followithe.

the sermon as followethe

I greatly merve