Baker’s The Life and Death of Dame Gertrude More

Augustine Baker included fragments of More’s prose confessions and poetry in a slightly earlier text, The Life and Death of Dame Gertrude More (c. 1635; extant in two different manuscript versions at Ampleforth Abbey and Stanbrook Abbey). This work was based on More’s handwritten manuscripts. Furthermore, a miscellany from the English Benedictines at Paris (MS 23, Colwich Abbey) also contains extracts from More’s poetry. 

Poems transcribed from:

• The Ampleforth text of Baker’s Life
• The Stanbrook text of Baker’s Life

For background on More’s relationship with Baker, see Baker and His Mysticism.