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223:, who was credited with both the power to free criminals from their shackles (perhaps significant in view of Audelay's possible feelings of guilt over Lestrange's transgression) and the power to cure blindness. Audelay also appears to have been strongly concerned with the exposure of priests to accusations of heresy, and particularly of
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in which a parishioner was killed, and was accompanied on his penance by
Audelay, his chaplain. Audelay had not only taken part in the penance, but had been present at the incident itself. It has been suggested that the penitential character of Audelay's poetry may have been influenced by his desire
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In conjunction with this new edition, Fein edited a collection of essays by scholars in the field on major issues in
Audelay scholarship: My wyl and my wrytyng : essays on John the Blind Audelay, ed. Susanna Greer Fein, Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan
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A recent edition has been produced by
Susanna Fein for the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages: POEMS AND CAROLS (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302) by John the Blind Audelay edited by Susanna Greer Fein. Kalamazoo, MI: TEAMS/Western Michigan,
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The records of the court of King's Bench make this plain. In his plea of mayhem, Sir John
Trussell alleged that the defendants had come arrayed in manner of war 'together with Richard Lestraunge of Knockin, and Joan, his wife, and John Audley,
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According to a date noted in MS. Douce 302, by 1426 Audelay was in effective retirement as a chantry priest at
Haughmond Abbey. In lines repeated several times throughout the manuscript, Audelay states that he was by that time very old, infirm,
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It is therefore possible that the manuscript either represents a collection of
Audelay's poems assembled on his orders at the end of his life or that it was dictated by him.
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MS Douce 302. The manuscript contains the text of all sixty-two of his surviving poems. The dialect of
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Audelay: A Specimen of the Shropshire Dialect in the Fifteenth Century
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Swete May, Soulis Leche: The Winifred Carol of John Audelay
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