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A CHARACTER OF IRISHMEN

FROM the version of Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis (Bk. I. c. 34), edited for the Master of the Rolls by Churchill Babington (1865), after a manuscript in St. John's College Library, Cambridge, only a few years later in date than Trevisa's translation (1387).

THE COURT OF THE GREAT CHAN

Chapter 22 of The Voiage and travaile of Sir John Maundeville, Kt. Which treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, With other Ilands and countryes. 'Now (1725) published entire from an original MS. in the Cotton Library.'

THE BATTLE OF ST. ALBANS

No. 239 of The Paston Letters, as reprinted by Mr. James Gairdner (London 1875). It first appeared in Vol. xx. of the Archaeologia (p. 519 et seq.), to which it was communicated in 1822 by Mr. Bayley, Keeper of the Records in the Tower. For the Letters themselves, two volumes were printed for the first time in 1787, from autographs in the possession of their editor, Mr. Fenn, of East Dereham; two more appeared in 1789; a fifth, left ready at Fenn's death, was published by Mr. Serjeant Frere in 1823. The MSS. of the first two, presented to George III., have disappeared, as have those of the two next: only the fifth remaining in MS. to attest the authenticity of the letters.

THE DOLOROUS SHIRT

From the Second Book of The Volume entituled and Named The Recuyell of the Hystoryes of Troye, composed and drawen oute of dyverce bookes of Latyn into Frensshe by the right venerable persone and worshipful man Raoul le Feure preest and chapelayn unto the right noble, glorious, and myghty prynce, in his tyme, Phelip, duc of Bourgoyne, etc. 1464., And translated and drawn out of Frenssh into Englisshe by William Caxton, Mercer of the Cyte of London' (1471). Our text is that of the Kelmscott edition (1893).

HOW THE MONK SAW HEAVEN

Chapters lv. and lvi., with part of Chapter lvii., of The Revelation of the Monk of Evesham: written (Mr. Arber thinks) not later than 1196; abridged, under date of that year, in Roger de Wendover's Flowers of History; and printed (c. 1482) by William de Machlinia, to whom, as responsible for the existing text, its authorship is here, for convenience's sake, assigned. Our text is that of Mr. Arber's reprint (1869) from the unique copy in the British Museum. The full title is A meruelous reuelacion that was schewyd of almighty god by Sent Nycholas to a monk of Euyshamme yn the dayes of kyng Richard the fyrst And the yere of owre lorde, MCLXXXXVI. 2 B

VOL. I.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHARIOT

Book XIX., Chapters 3, 4, and 5, of Le Morte Darthur, recreated by Sir Thomas Malory from certain books of French,' and printed by William Caxton at London, in 1485. Our text is that of Sir Edward Strachey's edition (1861): itself the result of a collation of the Southey-Upcott edition (1817) with the editio princeps.

A MOURNING RemembraNCE

Selected from A Mornynge Remembrance, the funeral sermon compyled by the Reverent Fader in God, Johan Fisher, Bysshop of Rochester,' in honour of Margaret, Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII., and delivered in 1505. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1509, and reprinted in 1708 by Thomas Baker, whose text is ours.

A PAGEANT

Number 953 of The Paston Letters (Gairdner, 1875) addressed (17th January 1506) by William Makefyrr to Darcy and Alyngton.

THE KILLING OF LORD HASTINGS

From The History of King Richard the Third (unfinished), written by Master Thomas More then one of the undersherriffs of London: about the yeare of our Lorde, 1513. First printed in the Chronicles of Hardyng (1543) and Hall (1550); included in the folio edition of the Works of Sir Thomas More (1557); and reprinted verbatim (1883) by Dr. Lumby, whose text we follow.

WAT TYLER'S ENDING

From Vol. 1. Chapter ccclxxxiv. of Sir John Froissart's Cronycles of Englande, Fraunse, Spayne, Portugall, Scotlande, Bretaine, Flaunders, and other places adioynynge: Translated out of French into our maternall Englisshe tongue, by John Bouchier, knyghte, Lord Berners: At the commandement of our most hyghe redouted soveraygne lorde Kynge Henry the VIII., Kynge of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande, defender of the faith: and of the church of Englande and also of Irelande in earth the supreme heade.' Our text is modernised from that of the edition, in two volumes quarto, of 1812: itself a reprint of the editio princeps produced by Pynson in 1523-1525.

THE CONQUEST OF BRITAIN

From the version by John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, of Caesar's Commentaryes (1530): 'Newly translated owte of laten in to Englyshe as much as concernyth thys realm of England sometyme callyd Bretayne: which is the eldest hystoryes of all other that can be found that ever wrote of thys realm of England.' It has never been reprinted. Our text is that of the copy in the King's Library.

THE IMAGE OF DETRACTION

Excerpted from Book III. Chapter xxix. of The Boke named The Governor devised by Sir Thomas Elyot, Knyght (London 1531). Our text is that of Mr. H. H. S. Croft's edition of 1880.

THE CROWNING OF ANN BOLEYN.

Addressed the 25th day of June, 1533, to Archdeacon Hawkyns; included among the Harleian MSS.; here reprinted from The Remains of Thomas Cranmer, D.D., collected and arranged (London, 1833) by the Rev. Henry Jenkyns, M.A.

A ROMAN VICTORY

The Seventeenth Chapter of the Sixth Book of The History and Croniklis of Scotland, translated (1530-33) from the Scotorum Historiae (1528) of Hector Boece by John Bellenden, Archdean of Moray and Canon of Ross, and printed at Edinburgh (c. 1536), by Thomas Davidson, a Northlande man, born on the Water of Dee,' presently (1540) Royal Printer. Our text is modernised from that of the edition prepared by Lord Dundrennan, for W. & C. Tait, and printed by them at Edinburgh in 1821.

SEEING THE WIND

Excerpted from Toxophilus (1545): the text being edited from that of Mr. Arber's reprint (1868).

A CHARACTER OF LONDON

Excerpted from A Notable Sermon of ye reverende father, MAISTER HUGH LATIMER, which he preached in ye Shrouds at paules churche in London on the xviii daye of Januarye. The yere of oure Lorde M.D. XLVIII: in which year it was also published in the shape of a small black-letter quarto.

RALPH HYTHLODAYE

From a Fruteful and pleasaunt Worke of the beste state of a publique Weale, and of the newe Yle called Utopia: written in Latine, by Syr Thomas More, knyght, and translated into Englyshe by Raphe Robinson, Citizein and Goldsmith of London. Printed at London in 1551. Our text is that of Mr. Arber's reprint (1869) of the second edition (1556).

WOLSEY'S ARREST

From The Life of Thomas Wolsey Cardinal Archbishop of York, written (c. 1557) by George Cavendish, and printed, more or less incorrectly, in 1641. Our text is based on the edition issued from the Kelmscott Press in 1893, which is presented as a verbal and literal reproduction of the author's manuscript.

Two BISHOPS

From John Foxe's Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Dayes Touching Matters of the Church: Wherein are comprehended and described the Great Persecutions and Horrible Troubles that have been wrought and practised by the Romishe Prelates, speciallye in this Realme of England and Scotlande from the year of Our Lorde a thousande unto the tyme nowe present. Gathered together and collected according to the true copies and wrytinges certificatorie as wel of the parties themselves that suffered, as also out of the Bishops Registers, which war the doers therof, by John Foxe.' 'Imprinted (1563) at London, by John Day, dwelling over Aldersgate. Cum privilegio Regie Magistatis.' Our text is that of the Townsend-Cattley edition of 1837-1842.

A PRETTY THEFT

From Book IV., Chapters 19 and 20 of The Golden Asse, translated from the Latin of Apuleius by William Adlington. The first edition appeared in 1566; there were half-a-dozen in some seventy years; the present text is that of the edition of 1639.

AN OLD MAN'S MISADVENTURE

From A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called Vagabonds, written by Thomas Harman Esquire and printed (for William Griffith) at London, 1566-7. No copy of this first edition is known to exist: our text is modernised from the reprint, by Dr. Furnivall and Mr. Edward Viles, of the third (1667) after collation with the second and fourth of 1567 and 1573.

AN ESCAPE

From The Cronicles of Scotland, by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie. Our text is that of the edition prepared by [Sir] John Graham Dalyell, from the existing manuscripts, and published at Edinburgh, in two volumes, in 1814.

THE KILLING OF DAVID BEATON

From the First Book (1494-1558) of the History of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realme of Scotland: Conteanyng the Maner and by What Persons the Light of Christis Evangell Hath Been Manifested unto this Realme, after that Horrible and Universall Defectioun from the Trewth which Hes Cume by the Meanes of that Romane Antichrist. Written in 1566 -(so the late David Laing opined)-by John Knox. Printed at London, in 1586-87, by Vautrollier, and seized by order ere the impression was complete: at London in 1644, with many interpolations and falsifications, by David Buchanan; and correctly at Edinburgh in 1732 under the supervision of the Rev. Matthew Crawfurd. Our text is modernised from the edition prepared by the late David Laing for the Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, 1846), from a manuscript of 1566, written (it is held) at Knox's dictation and annotated and corrected in Knox's own hand. The passage is given under date of Knox's death.

A SCOT ABROAD

From the Autobiography and Diary, 1556-1601, of the Rev. James Melvill (1556-1614), Minister of Kilrenny in Fife, and Professor of Theology in the University of St. Andrews: first printed at Edinburgh, for the Wodrow Society, in 1842, under the care of Robert Pitcairn, F.S.A. Scot. The original of the sketch was the author's uncle, Andrew Melville (1545-1622), some time Principal of the Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews, and finally Professor of Theology at Sedan. He returning to Edinburgh, from a student's round in France and Switzerland, a lyttle befor Lambes,' in 1574, the story of his Wanderjahre is included under that heading by the diarist.

AGINCOURT

From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland: First Collected and Published (1577) by Raphaell Hollinshed, William Harrison, and Others :

Now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the year 1586, by John Hooker alias Vowell, Gent, and others.' Save for the proper names, whose spelling is Hollinshed's own, our text is modernised from that of the edition of 1807 (London): printed, the Publishers declare, 'with the utmost Fidelity, from the best preceding Edition' with the Author's own Orthography, and with his Marginal Notes.'

THE YOUNG ALEXANDER

THE BANISHING OF CORIOLANUS

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From the Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Translated out of Plutarch's Greek into French by James Amiot... and out of French into Englishe by Sir Thomas North, London, 1579. Our text is that of the folio of 1657.

ENGLAND

Excerpted from Euphues Glasse for Europe, a chapter in, or appendix to. Euphues and his England. Our text is that of Mr. Arber's reprint (1868) from the editio princeps of 1580.

HOW WE CAME TO THE TOWN OF HOCHELAGA

From A Short and Briefe Narration of the two Navigations and Discoveries of the North-weast partes called Newe France: First translated out of French into Italian by that famous learned man Gio. Bapt. Ramutius, and now turned into English by John Florio: Worthy the Reading of all Venturers, Travellers, and Discoverers. Anno Domini 1580.'

A CORONATION

Excerpted from The most solemne and magnificent coronation of Pheodor Ivanovich, Emperour of Russia, etc., the tenth of June, in the yeere 1584: Seene and observed by Master Jerom Horsey, gentleman and servant to her Majesty, a man of great travell and long experience in those parts: wherewith is also joyned the course of his journey overland from Mosco to Emden.' Included by Richard Hakluyt in the first volume of his very famous Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoueries of the English Nation, London, 1599-1600. Our text is that of the edition of 1809-1811.

A FALSE WITCH

Book VII., Chapter i., of The Discovery of Witchcraft; wherein the leud dealing of Witches and Witchmongers is notably detected, the Knaverie of Conjurers, the impiety of Inchantors, the folly of Soothsayers. London, 1584. Our text is that of Dr. Nicholson's reprint (1886)."

THE FIRST LANDING IN VIRGINIA

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From The First Voyage made to the Coasts of America with two barks, wherein were Captaines M. Philip Amadas, and M. Arthur Barlowe, who discovered part of the country now called Virginia, Anno 1584: Written by VOL. I.

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