bigynnyng

And he seide to me, it is don, I am alpha and oo [omega] the bigynnyng and ende, I schal ghyue

The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864

At which counsel was ordeyned that the parliament shulde ben at Leicestre, which parliament bigan in the bigynnyng of Lenton; where, by good trete and arbitracion of the lords spiriele and temperel, was made a good unite and accorde atwixt the duke of Gloucestre and the bisshop of Wynchestre, in fourme as after folowith. "

A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum Anonymous 1823