Like any project, especially one produced under the strange and dispiriting conditions of the last few years, this collection has only been possible with assistance from multiple quarters. As a result, I owe a debt of gratitude to several people who have helped my research and writing along the way at various stages. Accordingly, I am grateful to Dr. Laura Nuvoloni, manuscript curator at Holkham Hall, for providing me with notes on Edward Coke’s library roll and the Knightley Psalter; to Father Philip Wells of Polesworth Abbey, whose own intelligent curiosity sparked my interest in these texts in the first place; to Malcolm Kitching at Cossington All Saints for allowing me to poke around the former parish church of Matthew Knightley; to staff at the Bodleian and at Cambridge University Library for their help accessing the manuscripts and early printed materials; to the editorial staff at the Middle English Texts Series, particularly Pamela Yee, Ashley Conklin, Eleanor Price, and Steffi Delcourt, and board-members Russell Peck, Alan Lupack, and Susanna Fein, without whose valuable suggestions and careful eyes this book would be much the poorer; to the National Endowment for the Humanities for their long-standing funding of METS; to the staff at Medieval Institute Publications, especially Tyler Cloherty, for their enthusiasm and (sorely tested) patience; and to my colleagues past and present at the University of Leicester, in particular Prof. Sarah Knight for her help gaining access to the original texts, and Dr. Anne Marie D’Arcy, Dr. Claire Wood, and Dr. Harry Whitehead for kindly allowing me to air parts of this project at research seminars and the Literary Leicester festival. And finally, and above all others, to Nina, semper vera lumina mei mundi.