Introduction: Witness Without Locus.- I Reading Variation.- II Dream Vision Variations.- III The Polyvocal Page.- IV Prophet or Propagandist?.- Chapter 1: A Portrait in Laureate Authority.- I The Chaucer Problem.- II The Inheritors.

- III Father Gower.- Chapter 2: Revising the Three-Recension Model.- 1 Macaulay's Model.- II Dates in the Confessio Glosses.- III The Quia Colophon.- IV The Henrician Couplet.- V The Ricardian and Henrician Passages.- VI Conclusion.

- Chapter 3: Gower's Late State.- I The Nicholson Demolition'.- II Finding New Language for a New King.- III The Late State Model.- IV The Added Texts and the Two Presentations.- Chapter 4: Gower's Margins.- Chapter 5: The First Public life of the Confessio and its Decoration.- I The Manuscript Witnesses.

- II A Brief Overview of the Developments in London Borders ca. 1400-1425.- III Early London Borders and Major Literary Manuscripts.- Chapter 6: Ricardian Confessio Manuscripts in Lancastrian England.- I An Emerging Producer Coterie in London, 1405-1410.- II London manuscripts 1405-1410.- III London Manuscripts 1410-1415.- IV The Confessio boom tails off, 1415-1425.

- V Conclusions.- Chapter 7: Binaries of Witness in the Languages of Love and Political Cognition.- I Witnessing Exile.- II Love and Politics.- III Reading the End of the Confessio as a Late State Text.- IV The Chaucer Connection.- V Enduring Forms of Witness.