Item 1 (Jest), fols 1r-2v

[On fol. 1r eleven jests are written, some nearly illegibly. Changes of ink indicate different times the scribe returned to add jests. The heading for the page is difficult to make out; it might say ""gillam"" or " "csillam"". The first jest concerns one fellow hitting another in the teeth for using the hangings to wipe his tail (in defence the man said he had never wiped his tail in his life). The second concerns a bet made between a friar and tailor about which of them could thrust his prick furthest between the legs of the tailor's wife. The third involves a country fellow talking with another man about whether the rain God has sent does more hurt than good. The fourth describes a falconer who meets a shepherd and asks if he has seen his hawk. The shepherd asks whether it is a bird, is specked, and has bells at the heels. The falconer says yes, then the shepherd says he never saw it. The fifth jest says that the steward of the Temple came once to Sergeant Harris asking him to come up because his calf's head was hot (The Temple refers to either the Inner Temple or Middle Temple, two of the four Inns of Court in London). In the sixth, a fellow standing by his father farted, and being asked about it, said it was good enough for the company. The seventh notes the Latin speech said by a priest to the bishop for having gotten five wenches with children. In the eighth an unidentified man swore a great oath that he would make someone taste of our Lord Jesus Christ's supper. The ninth involves a courtly gentleman who thrust a gentlewoman into the royal presence where the torches were put out. He came to her and pulled up her clothes, but she put her hand on her border saying, I will save this, the other will save itself. The tenth mentions someone who stole a horse and told the chief justice he would rather be tried by his uncle and aunt. The eleventh describes the significance of the actions of a person named Skefton who brought capons to the bishop, one named alpha and the other omega. The names Katherine Hordinant (once) and Elizabeth Clarke (four times) are written sideways along the left margin of the page.]

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Item 3 (Jest), fol. 3v

[This page contains seven jests. The first describes how a drunkard was lying in the dirt on a dark night, when a man came by thinking he had been robbed. He told the drunkard to stand, but the drunkard could not. The second tells of John Radcliffe who was once walking from Carfax to Brasenose College and told one of his friends that he was very sick. He sounded three times between Brasenose and Carfax, which means that he farted so many times. The third item is a single line: ""of all birdes the wagtaile is worst"". The fourth jest tells how an elephant spends ten years in his dam's belly and lives three hundred years. The fifth jest, a lengthy one, explains that a poor student in Paris often went to a cook's house for some sustenance. Since he was not able to afford meat he would hold his bread over the cook's roasting meat to take the breath of it. Shortly after this one of the student's friends died, making him rich, whereby the cook sued him in the civil courts because he had lived off the cook's meat a long time. When it came to trial the student pulled out some [illegible word] and told the cook to smell them and take the air of them, as he had taken the air of his meat, which was all the cook could obtain at the judge's hands. The sixth jest tells of a gentlewoman who once seeing a man want a knife said, cut my finger. He replied, you would say, finger my cut. The final jest concerns a captain's boy coming through Cheapside with long hair. A merchant's wife sitting in her shop called to him and said that he was bush natural, with more hair than wit. He replied, cousin, to your cunt, mistress, more hair than honesty. The John Radcliffe mentioned in the second jest might refer to the John Radclyffe of Lancashire who matriculated at Brasenose College in 1581 at age 16 (Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford 1500-1714, vol. 3 (Oxford: Parker, 1892), p. 1228).]