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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 fyfte sacrament ys. þe last anoyntyng.
with oyle þat is halwyd and handlyd of prest
to hem þat arn of skylful elde.
and semyn in perel of deþ ;
in lyȝtnesse and aleggaunce of here seknesse
yf god wile þat þey turne agayn to þe hele /
and also in forȝefnesse of venial synnys.
and in lessyng of peyne yf þey passe hens.