MS. i. 53.

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MS. B. 5. There is yet another MS. in the library of Trinity College, Oxford, no. 75; and others in the Bodleian Library (MS. Rawlinson 151), in the Cambridge University Library (Gg. iv. 18), and in the Phillipps collection (as in note 5 below).

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'The Boke of Comfort, translated into Englesse tonge. Enprented in the exempt Monastery of Tavestok in Denshyre, by me, Dan Thomas Rychard, Monke; 1525. 4to.'—Lowndes.

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The MS. is now in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps; no. 1099.

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He here implies that Chaucer's translation was by no means the only one then in existence; a remarkable statement.

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