Obs. Also Sc. 5–6 vangele, -ell; 5 wangele, -yl(e, -yll, 5–6 -ell, 6 -el. -ell, 6 -el. [Aphetic f. EVANGEL.] Gospel.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, cxviii. 72. Laghe of godis mouth is þe vangel.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxvii. (Machor), 1401. Þar þe buk of þe wangele … he gef hyme frely in þat place.
c. 1420. Wycliffite Bible (1850), IV. 297. Here endith vangelis, and bigyneth a prologe on the Romayns.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VI. x. 70 (Laing). He made a tysstyre in that qwhylle, Quhare-in wes closyd the Wangylle.
1473. Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879), I. 199. Sworn apon the haly wangyl befor the Abbot and conuent.
1533. Gau, Richt Vay, 27. To prech his halie vangel to al creatur. Ibid. The wangel of iesus christ.
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 239. Ather of vther was sworne in the haly vangell.
attrib. c. 1450. Maitl. Club Misc., III. 201. Item ane buke for the vangell lettrin.
