10. Item, in qwayers, a Boke de Sapiencia . . . . . . wherin the ij. parson is liknyd to Sapi[ence] . . . . .
11. Item, a Boke de Othea,[66.3] text and glose, valet . . . . . . in quayers.
Memorandum,[66.4] myn olde Boke off Blasonyngs off a[rms].
Item, the nywe Boke portrayed and blasoned.
Item, a copy off Blasonyngs off armys and th . . . names to be fownde by letter.
Item, a Boke with armys portrayed in paper . . . . .
Memorandum, my Boke of Knyghthod and the man[er] off makyng off Knyghts, off Justs, off Tor[neaments] ffyghtyng in lystys, paces holden by so[ldiers] . . . . . and chalenges, statuts off weer, and de Regim[ine Principum], valet . . . . . . . . .
Item, a Boke off nyw Statuts ffrom Edward the iiij.
[65.2] [From Fenn, ii. 300.] This is a catalogue of the books either of John Paston the younger or of John Paston, Knight, most probably the former, drawn up in the reign of Edward IV., but owing to the decay of the original MS. we cannot tell in what year. It certainly could not have been earlier than 1475, when The Game and Play of the Chess was first printed by Caxton. It is in itself a remarkable thing that the expression ‘in print’ should have got into use even during the reign of Edward IV.; but one may suppose that such an expression could hardly have been current for at least a year or two after the first printed book appeared. We therefore, without deciding the year, place the paper at the end of King Edward’s reign.
[66.1] Quære, if Cypio is not a mistake from ‘Somnium Scipionis,’ a piece which is usually printed with the ‘de Amicitia,’ and probably accompanied it in this manuscript.—F.