Wriothesley, Henry, 3rd earl of Southampton, 1573-1624

Clement of Llanthony — c. 1400; England MS. Bodl. 481

Robert Mannyng — 15th century, beginning.; England, HertfordshireThe localisation of the manuscript to Hertfordshire is by Angus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels and Michael Benskin ( A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English (Aberdeen: 1986), I, p. 146). Sullens states that the manuscript was most likely written c. 1400, with this date supported by palaeographical analysis ( Handlyng Synne(Binghamton, New York: 1983), p. xxv; cited in Yoko Iyeiri, 'Negative Constructions in Selected Middle English Verse Texts' (1992), p. 28) MS. Bodl. 415