A   In that tyme Herode the kynge stretched forthe his handes to vexe certayne ^note of the congregacion. And he kylled Iames the brother of Iohn with the swerde: and because he sawe that it pleased þe; Iewes /

he proceded forther / ∧ toke Peter also. Then were the dayes of swete breed. ^noteAnd when he had caught him / he put him in preson / and delyvered him to .iiii. ^note quaterni&obar;s of soudiers to be kepte / entendynge after ester to brynge him forth to the people. Then was Peter kepte in preson. But prayer was made with out ceasynge of the congregacion vnto God for him. And when Herode wolde have brought him oute vnto the people / the same nyght slepte Peter bitwene two soudiers / bounde with two chaynes / and the kepers before the dore kepte the preson.

B    ^noteAnd beholde the angell of þe; Lorde was there present / ∧ a lyght shyned in the lodge. And smote Peter on the syde / ∧ steryd him vp sayinge: aryse vp quyckly. And his cheynes fell of fr&obar; his hondes. And the angell sayd vnto him: gyrde thy selfe ∧ bynde on thy ^note sandales. And so he dyd. And he sayde vnto him: cast thy mantle aboute the / ∧ folowe me. And he came oute ∧ folowed him / ∧ wist not / that it was truthe which was done by the angell / but thought he had sene a vision. When they were past þe; fyrst ∧ þe; seconde watche / they came vnto þt; yron gate / þt; ledeth vnto the cyte / which opened to them by his awne accorde. And they went out and passed thorowe one strete / ∧ by ∧ by the angell departed fr&obar; him.

And when Peter was come to him selfe / he sayde: now I knowe of a surety / that the Lorde hath sent his angell / ∧ hath delyvered me out of the honde of Herode / and from all the

waytynge for of the people of þe; Iewes. C   And as he consydred the thinge / he cam to þe; housse of Mary the mother of one ^note Iohn / which was called Marke also / where many were gaddered to gedder in prayer. As Peter knocked at the entry dore / a damsell cam forth to herken / named Rhoda. And when she knew Peters voyce / she opened not the entrey for gladnes / but ran in and told how Peter stode before the entrey. And they sayde vnto her: thou arte mad. And she bare them doune þt; it was even so. Then sayde they: it is his angell. Peter c&obar;tynued knockinge. When they had opened the dore / ∧ sawe him / they were astonyed. And he beckened vnto them with þe; honde to holde their peace / ∧ tolde them by what meanes þe; Lorde had brought him oute of the preson. And sayde: goo shew these thinges vnto Iames and to the brethren. And he departed and went into a nother place.

D   Assone as it was daye ther was no lyttell a doo am&obar;ge the soudyers / what was becum of Peter. When Herode had called for him / and founde him not / he examined the kepers / and comaunded to departe. And he descended from Iewry to Cesarea / and ther abode. Herode was displeased with them of Tyre and Sydon. And they came all at once / and made intercession vnto Blastus the kynges chamberlen / and desyred peace / because their countrey was norysshed by the kynges londe. And upon a daye appoynted Herode arayed him in royall apparell / and set him in his seate / ∧

made an oraycon vnto them. And the people gave a shoute / sayinge: it is þe; voyce of a God and not of a man. And immediatly the angell of þe; Lorde ^note smote him / because he gave not God the honoure / ∧ he was eatyn of wormes / and gave vp the goost.

And þe; worde of God grewe ∧ multiplied. And Barnabas and Paul returned to Ierusalem / when they had fulfilled their office / ∧ toke with them ^note Iohn / which was also called Marcus.

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