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Excerpt from The Ormulum, Vol. 1: With the Notes and Glossary The Paschal Homily and Epistles of lelfric, with the Lord's Prayer from the 6th chap. Of St. Matthew, preceded by W. 7, 8, 9, and followed by the Creed and nine commandments from the Decalogue, as prefixed to the copies of Alfred's Laws, the whole being accompanied with an English translation, are contained in a book which bears this title, A Testimonie of Antiqvitie, shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament of the body and bloude of the Lord here publikely preached, and also receaued in the Saxons tyma, aboue 600. Yeares agoe. Jeremie 6. Goe into the streetes, and inquyre for the olde way: and if it be the good and ryght way, then goe therin, that ye maye finde rest for your soules. But they say: we will not walke therein. Imprinted at London by John Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martyns. Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis.' The book is printed without date, but Wanley in his Catalogue, p. 326, places it in 1567, and Strype about I 566. The following title at p. 19 is prefixed to the Homily, A Sermon of the Paschall Lambe, and of the sacra mentall body and blond of Christ our Sauiour, written in the olde Saxon toungue before the Conquest, and appoyn'ted in the teigne of the Saxons to be spoken unto the people at Easter, before they shoulde receaue the Communion, and now first translated into our common Englishe speche.' The authorship of the preface is attributed by some to Joscelyn, but by Strype to Parker; it contains however a passage scarcely consistent with that peculiar reserve and humblemindedness which distinguished the Archbishop. We are told at fol. 3. A. That 'diuerse of these bockes (of sermons) haue bene deliuered into the bandes of the moste reuerend father, Matthewe Archbyshop of Canter burye, by whose diligent search for such writings of historye, and other monumentes of antiquitie, as might reueale vnto vs what hath ben the 1x. About the P