The Lay Folks Mass Book Part 1

The Importance of the Mass

This is a new series in which I will post an excerpt from The Lay Folks Mass Book, a verse poem from the 14th/15th century, originally written in Middle English.

Each Sunday I will post a short section, transcribed into modern English for ease of reading, and harmonised from the 4 surviving versions which are in different dialects and with some variation…