[3] This title is from Michael O'Cleary's copy, made in 1627.—The Prayer is from a vellum MS. written in 1390.
[PART I.]
1. I beseech the intercession with thee, O holy Jesus, of thy Four Evangelists, who wrote thy Divine Gospel, viz., Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
2. I beseech the intercession with thee of thy four chief Prophets, who foretold thy Incarnation, Daniel, and Jeremiah, and Isaiah, and Ezechiel.
3. I beseech the intercession with thee of the nine degrees of the Church on Earth, from the Psalm-singer to the Bishop.
4. I beseech the intercession with thee of all the elect who have taken these degrees from the commencement of the New Testament to this day, and who shall adopt them from this day to the day of judgment.
5. I beseech the intercession with thee of the nine degrees of the Heavenly Church, viz., Angels and Archangels, Virtutes, Potestates, Principatus, Dominationes, Throni, Hirophin, Sarophin.
6. I beseech the intercession with thee of the noble Patriarchs, who foretold thee through the spiritual mysteries.
7. I beseech the intercession with thee of the twelve Minor Prophets, who figured thee.