Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Adam Lay Ybounden, alternatively titled Deo Gracias, is a 15th Century macaronic English text of unknown authorship, found in the Sloane Manuscript 2593. It is believed by the British Library to have belonged to a wandering minstrel. Thomas Wright''s 1836 book Songs and Carols printed from a Manuscript in the Sloane Collection in the British Museum discusses the manuscript, and writes that antiquarian Joseph Ritson suggested the manuscript dates from the reign of Henry V of England. However, Wright suggests that the lyrics within may be earlier: "I think it may be rather earlier, but its greatest antiquity must be included within the fifteenth century."