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The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People

Together with a Wycliffite adaptation of the same, and the corresponding canons of the council of Lambeth. With introduction, notes, glossary, and index, by the late Thomas Frederick Simmons ... and Henry Edward Nolloth

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The ferthe is þat he þat takys yt
be nyþer of leryd ne lewd baptyȝed be-fore./
And yf þe prest be in dowte of hym þat schal tak hit
wheþer he be Baptyȝid or noȝt ;
þan schal he seye þe wordys in þese wyse./
ȝif þou be not baptiȝid ; I baptyȝ þe
in þe name of þe fadyr. and þe sone. and þe holy gost.