Cornell University Library Z2018 .M17 Manual of British h|st<^^^^^^^^^^ 3 1924 029 565 763 olin Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/cletails/cu31924029565763 A MANUAL OF BRITISH HISTORIANS. iHanual of l^xi tisf) historians ^ TO A. D. 1600 s<^ CONTAINING A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY CHRONICLERS AND MONKISH WRITERS THEIR PRINTED WORKS AND UNPUBLISHED MSS. t: 1^ a-v . Wi>Jti-13) o^ ^^ Chefne's " Hiftorias Francorum Scriptores coastanei," 4 vols. fol. Paris. 1636-41. Ob. circ. 1218. British Historians. 23 to 1255. LEXANDER of EfTeby, Auguftine Prior of Canons' Afhby, Northampton- fhire. (Dugdale's Mon. vol. vi. p. 442.) " Hiftoria Britannicte epitomen" In Corp. Ch. Coll. Camb. cxxxviii. Fl. circ. 1220. IRALDUS Cambrenfis. SylvefterGi- raldus de Barri Cambrenfis was firft Archdeacon of Brecknock, afterwards of St. David's,* and then Bifhop of that fee, which he refigned in 1203. The following are his hiftorical works : i. " Expugnatio Hibernia , five Hiftoria vaticinalis," from 1170 to 11 87. This is printed p. 755 of Camden's " Anglica &c. a vete- ribus fcripta," and, tranflated by John Hooker, alias, Vowal, of Exeter, in Holin/hed's Chronicles of En- gland, Ireland, and Scotland, q. v. 11. " A£la Regis Johannis. " Tanner, referring to Ware, fays that the two works " Chronicon Anglorum" and " Deregibus Vifi-Saxonum" are erroneoufly attributed to Giral- dus ; his words are, " hi duo male Giraldo tribuun- tur, et error hauftus eft e prima Balei editione, fed in fecunda non inveniuntur." Nat. circ. 1146, ob. 1223. So Le Neve and Ware, differing from Tanner. 24 Manual of ALPH of Coggeftial was Abbot of the Ciftercian Monaftery there in Eflex. He probably died foon after 1228, as he in that year refigned his abbacy on account of fevere illnefs. i. " Chronicon Anglica- num" from 1066 to 1200. This is printed coll. 801-870. vol. V. of Martene and Durand's "Vete- rum Scriptorum Colledio," fol. Paris, 1729. 11. " Libellus de motibus Anglic ants Juh Johanne Rege," from 1213 to 1216. In vol. v. (coll. 871-882) of Martene and Durand, ut Jupra. in. " Chronicon Terra Sancta" from ii87toii9i. In the fame vol. as the preceding, coll. 548-581. iv. " Chro- nicon Breve, ah \\\\ ad \ 158." MS. in Heralds' College, XI. Ob.circ. 1228. OGER of Wendover, a monk of St. Al- ban's, was afterwards Prior of Bealvair. " Chronica, five Flores Hijioriarum." Edited by the Rev. H. O. Coxe, M. A. (publ. by the Eng. Hift. Soc.) 4 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1 841-2. The work is divided into two parts, the firft extending from the Creation to the Incarnation, and the fecond from that time to 1235. Mr. Coxe has omitted the whole of the firft part, as it is merely a compilation from the Bible, Jofephus, Methodius, &c. having no relation to England ; British Historians. 25 and alfo the firft 446 years of the fecond part, becaufe there is very little in the narrative of that period on which reliance can be placed. Nicolfon thinks that Matthew Paris and Matthew of Weft- minfter copied largely from this author ; fo that " the main of what is publifhed under both their names came from that hand." (p. 66.) See p. 26. Oi>. 1236. ETER HENHAM. He is fuppofed to have been a Benedidline monk. " Chro- nicon Anglorum" from Hengifl: to 1244. Fl. 1244. A OHN CAMPBELL, born in Scotland; ftudied firft at Paris, and afterwards at Bologna. Having returned to Scot- land, he died there in the reign of Alexander IIL which began in 1 249 and ended in 1286. Boethlus fays he obtained Campbell's Scotch Hiftory, (which is now loft) from Icolm- kiU in 1525, and Baker mentions him in the lift of his authorities. Fl. 1256. 26 Manual of I ATTHEW PARIS, a Benedldine monk of St. Alban's. i. " Hiftoria Major, a Gulielmo Normanno ufque ad\i^^, libris octo." Firft publifhed by Archbp. Par- ker, fol. Lond. (printed by Reynold Wolfe) 1571 ; fol. Zurich, 1589; fol. Zurich, 1606; with the " Additamenta," " Duorum OfFarum, Merciorum Regum, et viginti trium Abbatum S. Albani vitas," and the " Appendix" of William Rifhanger, edited by Dr. W". Wats, fol. Lond. 1 640 j fol. Paris, 1 644 ; fol. Lond. 1684. There are a few notices taken from this hiftory in Leland's " CoUedianea," vol. iii. pp. 335-41. A French tranflation by A. Huillard- BrehoUes, with an introdudion by the Due de Luynes, was publiihed at Paris in 9 vols. 8vo. 1 840- 1. All of Matthew Paris' work in the " Hiftoria Major" before 1235, confifts merely (as is proved by the Rev*. H. O. Coxe in the 5th vol. of his ed. of Wendover, which is juft about to be publifhed) of various readings and additions to Roger of Wendover. 11. " Additamenta Chront- corum" from 121 8 to 1258. In Wats' edition of the Hiftoria Major, ut Ju-pra. iii. " Hiftoria Minor, qu^e eft epitome Majoris" Bifhop Nicolfon fays " the faireft copy of this book (fuppofed to be written by the author's own hand) is in the King's Library at St. James's," (p. 62.) now in the Britifh Mufeum, 14, C. vii. There are alfo MSS. at Corp. British Historians. 27 Chr. Coll. Camb. (No. 56) and from the year 1000 to 1255 in the Cottonian Colleftion, Claudius, D. vi.. The "Hiftoria Minor" was made up out of the " Hiftoria Major" by Paris, both from Wen- dover to 1235, and his own large additions after that period. Ob. 1259. OHNdeTAXTER,orTayfter,amonk of Bury. "Chronicon" from the Crea- tion to 1 26 5 . In the Cottonian Library Julius A. I. and (to 1287) amongft the Norfolk MSS. in Heralds' College, No. 6. Fl. 1267. LIAS of Trickingham was a Beneditftine monk of Peterborough, or, according to Dr. Pegge, of Ramfey. " Annales" from 626 to 1269. Edited by Dr. Samuel Pegge, together with D^ Th. Legh's and D"^. Rich. Layton's (Dean of York) vifitationof Mon- afteries in the Province of York, Diocefe of Lich- field and Coventry, &c. in 1535, 4to. Lond. 1789. Fl. 1270. LIAS of Evefliam, a monk of the Benedicfline order. " Of us Chronico- rum." Fl. circ. 1270. 28 Manual of ENRY de SILEGRAVE. Elias of Trickingham in his annals, (p. 45) records the death of Henry de Sulgrave, Abbot of Ramfey, in 1 2 6 8 . " Chronicon Angliie" from the coming of the Saxons to Henry III. In the Cottonian CoUeftionj Cleop. A. xii. Fl. x^-ji. ETER ICKHAM, or Yckham, born at Canterbury, was a ftudent in the Uni- verfity of Paris. " Compilatio de gejlis Britonum et Anglorum." It is in the Bodleian, Laud MS. 730 ; Cotton. Domitian in ; Lambeth, 22; Corp. Chr. Coll. Camb. 194, 339, and 427 ; Queen's Coll. Oxford, 41 ; Heralds' Coll. Arundel MS. 5 ; and copied by Wharton, Harl. MS. 4323. All the MSS, terminate at different years j the Bodl. at 1 272, one at C. C. C. C. at 1283, the Cottonian at 1301, and the fecond Cambridge MS. at 1327, while that at Queen's Coll, is continued to 1377, the third at Camb. to 1429, that at Lambeth to 1465, with which Whar- ton's copy agrees, and that at Heralds' Coll. to 1471- Fl. 1274. British Historians. 29 [HOMAS SPROTT,orSpott,amonkof St. Auguftine's at Canterbury. " Chro- nica" from the Creation to 1272, con- tinued to 1377. Publifhed by Hearne, Jvo. Oxford, 17 1 9. Fl. 1274. OBERT of Gloucefter was a monk of that city. His " Chronicle," from Brute to 1 27 1 is in EngHfh verfe. It was publifhed by Hearne, 2 vols. 8vo. Oxf. 1724; reprinted 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 18 10. There is a MS. in the Sloane colleftion (No. 2027) Brit. Mus. which differs from the printed copy. Prob. circ. 1280. OHN de OXENEDES was a Bene- diftine of Hulme Abbey, Norfolk. " Chronicon ah adventu Saxonum ad 1293." Cotton. Nero. D. 11. Fl. 1293. fARTHOLEMEW COTTON, amonk of Norwich. " Hiftoria Anglicana" to 1298. There is a MS. in the Cot- tonian coUeftion, Nero, C. v, and fome extrads are to be found in James MS. 29 in the Bodleian. Fl. 1298. 3° Man UAL OF fHOMAS WIKES, (Lat. Thomas Wic- cius, feu, Vicanus,) an Auguftine Canon regular of Ofney Abbey near Oxford. " Chronica compendiofa ab 1066 ad 1304." Publiihed in Gale's "Hift. An- glic. Scriptores quinque,"pp. 21-128. Some brief extrafts are printed in Leland's " Colleftanea," vol. iii. pp. 414-420. Fl, 1304. OHN CASTORIUS, "quietiam Fiber et vulgo Bever dicitur" (Pits. p. 390), a Benedidtine monk of Weftminfter. " Chronicon" from Brute to 1306. Cotton. VitelliuSj E. xvii, Harl. MS. 641, Trin. Coll. Oxf. 62, and (copied by Th. Hearne, and prepared by him for the prefs, from a MS. in the poffeffion of Sir Symonds D'Ewes, now Harl. MS. 641) Bodl. Rawl. B. 185. The Cotton MS. was much injured in the fire of 173 1. Fl. 1306. ETER LANGTOFT, or Longatofta, was an Auguftine Canon regular of Brid- lington in Yorkfhire. He is thought by fome to have been a Frenchman, but Pits and Hearne believe that we may claim him for one of our own hiftorians. His Chronicle, British Historians. 31 which was originally written in French, was tranf- lated by Robert de Brunne into Englifh, verfe. The tranflation alone is in print, but a French copy is in the Cottonian library, Julius, A. v. " Chro- nicle from the death of Cadwallader (a. d. 688) to the end of King Edward the Firji's reign." Tranf- cribed and publiflied from a MS. in the Inner Temple- Library by Th. Heame, 2 vols. 8vo. Oxf. 1725; 2 vols. 8vo. Lond- 1810. He alfo wrote a Chronicle, likewife in French alexandrines, from Brute to Cadwallader, wluch is in the fame Cot- tonian MS. with the original of the former, and in Lincoln Cathedral. Prob. circ. 1308. ILLIAM RISHANGER was a Bene- diftine of St. Alban's, and Hiftorio- grapher royal to Edward I. Bale's aflertion that he "flouriflied in 131 2, has been converted by Pits to died about 131 2, and by Tanner that he died in 131 2. But as Walfingham, who is not likely to have made an undue confeffion of his plagiariftn, exprefsly ftates, under the year 1322, that the preceding portion of his chronicle is abridged from Rifhanger, it is but fair to conclude that Rifhanger's continuation of Paris ended in that year j and as there appears to be no alleged reafbn for an abrupt conclufion, the probability is, taking his advanced age into confideration, that he died in 32 Manual of that year, or very fliortly afterwards." * His hiftories are, i. " Opus Chronicorum" extending from 1261 to 1293; Cotton. Claud. D. vi. 11. '■'■ Annales regni Edwardi I." Bib. Reg. 14 C. i. in. " Ap- pendix, feu continuatio Matthai Paris," from 1259 to 1322. No perfed copy is known, but there are imperfe6b MSS. in the Bodleian, MS. Bodl. 462, which extends to 1272 ; in the Royal Library, 14 C. VII, alfo to 1272 ; in the Cottonian colledion, Fauft. B. IX, to 1306, and Claud. E! in, to 1297 ; and in Corp. Chr. Coll. Camb. 56, to 1272. " The earlier part to a. d. 1272 has been printed by Wats at the end of his edition of Matthew Paris, and the remainder has partly found its way into the pages of Walfingham's Chronicle." f iv. " De Bellis Lewes et Eve/ham." Edited by J. O. Halliwell for the Camden Society, under the title of " The Chronicle of William de Rifhanger of the Barons' Wars ;" a coUedion of miracles attributed to Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicefter, is fubjoined. 4to. Lond. 1840. v. "Annales regni Scotia," This work treats " principally of the difputes relative to the Scottifh crown in the reign of Edward I., and of that monarch's invafion of Scotland." J Cotton. Claud. D. VI. Nat. 1250, ob. circ. 1322. * Halliwell's Introd. to his ed. of " The Barons' Wars," pp. vi, vii. t Halliwell's Introd. p. x. | Halliwell, Introd. p. xii. British Historians. 33 ALPH BALDOC, educated at Mer- ton College, was appointed in 1304, Biihop of London, and in 1307, Lord Chancellor. " Hijioria Anglica" from Brute to his own time. He is quoted by Stow in his Survey, and Leland fays that he once faw his work in St. Paul's Cathedral. Ob. 13 13. TEPHEN EITON, or Eden, an Au- guftine Canon regular of Warter, in Yorkftiire. " ASia Regis Edwardi indi." Fl. 1320. [ILLIAM SHEPESHEVED, or Sheepfhead, a Monk of the Ciftercian Abbey of Crokefdon, StaiFordfhire, wrote " Annales de rebus Anglicis," from 1066, continued by other monks to 1374. Cotton. Fauft. B. vi. Fl.circ. 1320. OHN of London was a Monk of Can- terbury. " Chronica de rebus Anglicis a conquejiu ad 13 17," written at the in- ftance of Queen Margaret, wife of Edward L, to whom it is dedicated. It is amongft 34 Manual of the Arundel MSS. in Heralds' College, (No. 20) ; and fome extradls are in James MS. 7. in the Bod- leian. He is alfo faid to have written a continua- tion of Gervafe of Canterbury, to the time of Richard II., which is in Trin. Coll. Camb. ; but it feems hardly poffible that the fame perfon who wrote a chronicle which he originally finilhed at 1307, and afterwards continued to 13 17, fhould in 1377 write another hiftory up to that time. In a MS. in the Bodleian (James 27), where there are fome extracts from the latter work, the author is called 7ori,2« of London. Fl. 1322. fIR THOMAS DE LA MOORE was a knight of Gloucefterfhire. " De vita et morte Edwardi II." This work was originally written in French, and was tranflated Into Latin by Geoffrey Baker, Canon of Ofney near Oxford. The tranflation is publilhed in Camden's " Anglica," &c., and Bifhop Nicolfon fays (p. 80) that this life " has been frequently publlfh'd in Englifh by our general chroniclers." Fl. 1326. ICOLAS TRIVET, the fon of Sir Thomas Trivet, Lord Chief Juftice, was Prior of a Dominican monaftery in London, i. " Annales Jex Regum An- British Historians. 35 glU" from Stephen to Edward I. Edited by Ant. Hall, 8vo. Oxf. 17 1 9. They are alfo printed p. 411, vol. viii. of " Spicilegium, five colledtio vete- rum aliquot Scriptorum, opera D. Lucas d' Achery," 13 vols. 4to. Par. 1665-77, ^"^^ 3 vols. fol. Par. 172J, at p. 143 of vol. iii. j and a few paflages from them are in vol. iii. of Leland's " Colledanea," pp. 326-329. A new edition is about to be printed from a MS. in Queen's College, Oxford, by the Englilh Hift. Soc. under the editorfhip of Mr. T, Hog. II. " Annalium continuatio," to 1 3 1 8 . Publ. together with " Adami Murimuthenfis Chronicon, cum ejufdem continuatlone. Quibus accedunt Jo- annis Boftoni Speculum ccenobitarum, et Edmund! BoltonI Hypercritlca. Ed. Ant. Hall." 8vo. Oxf 1722. III. " Les geftes des Afoftoiles (I. e. the Popes), Empereurs, e Rois," to 13 13. There Is a copy of this in Magd. Coll. Oxf. (No. 45), and Raw- linfon, MS. B. 178, in the Bodl. and a fhort extrad: relating to St. Auguftlne's Interview with Dinoch, Abbot of Bangor, Is printed pp. 111-112, vol. I. of Spelman's " Concilia Pambritannica," &c. fol. Lond. 1639. ^^- ^3'^^' OHN DE TROKELOWE, or Trlck- lowe. Hearne thinks that he was a Monk of St. Alban's. " Annates Ed~ wardi indi." Publifhed by Hearne, 36 Manual of together with Henry de Blaneforde's " Chronica de Treugis inter Scotos et Anglos," and " Edwardi 2ndi vita a monacho quodam Malmesburienfi." 8vo. Oxf. 1729. Fl. circ. 1330. OHN EVERISDEN. A Benedidine Monk and Cellarer of St. Edmundf- bury. " Series Temporum, Jive Chroni- con," from the Creation to 1334. It is in the Heralds' College, (Arundel MS. 30,) and there are fome extrads in James MS. 7, in the Bod- leian. Ob. circ. 1336. OBERT DE BRUNNE, or Mannyng, tranflated Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, q. V. Fl. 1338. OGER of Chefter, a Benedifline of St. Werburgh's in that city. i. " Poly- cratica temporum, a mundi origine ad 13 14." Harl. MSS. 1707 (to the com- mencement of the reign of Edward HI.), 1728-9 (continued to 1398), and 1751 (to 1322) ; Cotton. Julius, E. viii. ; Lambeth, 112 (to 1326); Corp. Chr. Coll. Camb. 259. 11. " Additiones xxv. an- norum." Corp. Chr. Coll. Camb. 259. Higden is faid to have copied largely, from this author. Fl. 1339- British Historians. 37 OHN of Peterborough, was Abbot of the Benediftine monaftery there. " Chro- nicon Angli. circ. 1380. j|HOMAS HASILWOOD, Auguftine Canon regular of Leedes in Kent. Bale and Pits place him at 1321, but Wee- ver in his Funeral Monuments (p. 206), quotes from a MS. of Hafilwood, which he fays was in the Cottonian library (though it does not appear to be there now), an account of the vidtories of the Black Prince, which, as Bifhop Nicolfon fays (p. 64), " fhows that he mufl: have liv'd pretty late in the reign of Edward III. if not under (his grandfon) Richard II." " Chronicon compendiarium." Fl. circ. 1380. * Becaufe he begins his book at Michaelmas, 1303, Merimuth always begins the year at that time. 44 Manual of IALTER of Gifburne. In the Harleian Catalogue he is called William of Gif- burne. I. " Chronicon de geftis Regum Anglia," from 1066 to 1300. Harleian MS. 691, and Cotton. Tiberius, B. iv. 11. " De geftis Edwardi III." to 1346. In Magd. Coll. Oxford, 53, and Cotton. Nero, D. ii. Fl. circ. 1380. OHN STAFFORD, " ab oppido na- tali cognomen habens," was a monk of the order of St. Francis. Fuller, in his " Worthies," part iii. p. 45, fays, " Authors are at an abfolute lofs when he lived, and are fain by degrees to fcrew themfelves into a general notice thereof. He muft be fince the year 1226, when the Francifcans firft fixed themfelves in our land. He muft be before John Rofs, who flourifhed anno 1480, under Edward the Fourth, and maketh honourable mention of him. There- fore with proportion and probability he is coUefted to have written about 1380." " Hiftoria Anglica." Fl. circ. 1380. ILLIAM de PACKINGTON, or Pachenton, was Secretary and Trea- furer to Edward the Black Prince, Prebendary of York, &c. and ap- British Historians. 45 pointed Archdeacon of Canterbury in 138 1. He wrote two hiftories in French j the one a Chronicle from 1208 to 1380 ; the other, a Life of the Black Prince. A part of the Chronicle tranflated by Le- land is in his " Colledtanea," vol. ii. pp. 455-470. Ob. 1390. EFFREY LYNGE, a Francifcan of Norwich. " Chronicon," from the coming of Brute to his own time. Fl. 1390. ENRY. KNIGHTON, or Cnitton, was an Auguftine Canon of Leicefter. " Chronicon de eventibus Angli<£ ab anno 950 ad 1395." It was publifhed in Twyfden's " Hiftoriae Anglicanas decern Scriptores." Fl. 1395. OHN BARBOUR, Archdeacon of Aberdeen. The year 1378 is fome- times given as the time of his death, but it is afcertalned to have been 1396, from the chartulary of Aberdeen, "where under the date of Auguft loth, 1398, mention is made of quondam Joh. Barber, Archidiaconus Aberd. and where it is faid that he died two years and a half before J — therefore in 1396." (J. Bruce's Lives of Eminent Men of Aberdeen, p. 6. lamo. Aberd. 46 Manual of 1 841.) "The Bruce, or the hiftory of Robert I. King of Scotland." 1 imo. Edinb. 1 6 1 6 (firft known ed.);* 8vo. Edinb. 1620, 1648, 1665, and 1670 5 8vo. Glafg. 1672; 4to. Edinb. 1758;! printed from a MS. in the Advocates' library, dated 1489, with notes and a gloflary, by John Pinkerton, 3 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1790 ; together with Henry the Minftrel's " Wallace," edited by the Rev^. Dr. Ja- miefon, 2 vols. 4to. Edinb. 1820. There have been about twenty editions altogether. Nat. circ. 13 16. ob. 1396. OHN TREVISA, born in Cornwall, was Vicar of Berkeley in Gloucester- fhire. He tranflated Ralph Higden's (q. V.) " Polychronicon" into Englifh. Fl. 1399. ICHARD of Cirencefter, fometimes erroneoufly called Richard of Chichef- ter, \ was a Benedidine of Weftmlnfter. " Hijioria," divided into two parts, the * Pinkerton, in the preface to his ed. p. xxiii. says, " It is worth obfervation that, though the edition of this work 1 6 1 6 be the oldeft difcovered, yet there muft have been one at leaft more an- cient ; for Gordon in his Hiftorie of Bruce, a poem printed at Dort 161 5, 4to. mentions this poem, as " the old printed book," in his preface." f For an account of this edition, fee note to Henry the Minftrel. X See Dr. Stukeley's " Account of Richard of Cirencefter." British Historians. , 47 firft called " Speculum Hiftoriale," from the Crea- tion to the time of Hengift, in four books ; the fecond, " Anglo-Saxonum Chronicon," from where the firft ftops, to 1348, in five books. MSS. are in the Cambridge library, Ff. i. 28, and in the Bodleian, Rawl. B. 193, and there is an abridge- ment in Corp. Chr. Coll. Camb. (ccccxxvii.) which ftops at 1265. The treatife " De fitu Britannias," alfo faid to be by this author,* was publiftied by C. J. Bertram with Gildas and Nennius, 8vo. Copen- hagen, 1757 ; pp. 93-1 24 of the Rev''. James John- ftone's edition of the "Chronicle of Man," 4to. Copenhagen, 1774 ; with a tranflation and com- mentary by H. Hatcher, 8vo. Lond. 1809; ^^'^ tranflated by the Rev". J. A. Giles, D. C. L. to- gether with Richard of Devizes, 8vo. Lond. 1841. Richard's map of Roman Britain and Itinerary were * The authenticity of this work is doubted, and it is fufpefted that Bertram had more to do with it than merely as publifher. The chief grounds for this fulpicion are, that Bertram himfelf fays he obtained the MS. " miro modo," yet neither gives any account of it, nor mentions where it was extant ; that it has not been feen by any one elfe, and that paflages occur in the work, in which Englifti phrafes are rendered very literally into Latin. One of them is the following — " Veritatem, quoad fieri licuit, feftatus fiii. Si quid occurrat forte, i/Ii non exalte congruum, illud mihi ne im- putetur vitiove vertatur, rogo. Me enim ad regulas legesque hijioriee folicite componens, ea bona fide collegi aliorum verba et relationes, quae fincera maxume deprehendi et fide digniffima." p. 55. (See a fhort paper on Richard of Cirencefter, printed by the Eng. Hift. Socin 1838.) 48 Manual of published by Dr. Stukeley with his "Account of Richard of Cirencefter," 4to. Lond. 1757, and in the 2nd vol. of his " Itinerarium curiofum," fol. Lond. 1776, reprinted in 1 8 1 7 . Ob. circ. 1 40 1 . < OHN GOWER the poet was alfo an hiftorian. He wrote " Chronica, qu^e 'vox clamantis' dicitury Jive poema de inJurreElione rujlicorum in tempore Ri- cardi 11." It is in the Bodleian, Laud 719 and Digby 138, in All Souls' Coll. Oxford, 98, in the Cottonian library, Tiberius, A. iv. and Titus, A. xiii. and in the Hunterian Mufeum, Glafgow, Q^ ii. 33. Another metrical work, extant in the All Souls' MS. and Cotton. Tiberius. A. iv. entitled " Chronica tripartita de depofitione Ricardi U. et coronatione Henrici IV." is alfo attributed to him. There are extradts from this in James MS. 26 in the Bodleian. Ob. 1402. ITEPHEN BYRCHINGTON became a Benedidine of Ch. Ch. Canterbury, in 1382, of which monaftery he was afterwards Treafurer and Cellarer. Wharton (Ang. Sacr. vol. i. p. xx.) afcribes to him from the fimilarity of ftyle to that of his known book, " Vitae Archiepifcorum Cantuarenjium" a work British Historians. 49 extant in Lambeth library (No. 99), which is thus defcribed in the Catalogue — " Brutus, five de geftis Anglorum hiftoria ab ipfis gentis incunabulis ad A. 1367. HiftoriEe Pontificum Romanorum a S. Petro ad Urbanum VL (1378). Hiftoria imperatorum Romanorum a J. Caefare ad Caroli IVti obitum (1378)." There is a copy of the Hiftory of England, from the Conqueft, in Wharton's handwriting, Harl. MS. 4321. Ob. 1407. NDREW WYNTOWN, Canon regu- lar of St. Andrew's, and Prior of the Monaftery of Saint Serf, Lochleven. He " is fuppofed to have outlived 1420, as he mentions the death of Robert, Duke of Al- bany, which happened in the courfe of that year."* His valuable hiftory, the " Orygynall Chronykill of Scotland," is in verfe, and the only edition of it was publiftied in two volumes, 8vo. Lond. 1795, with notes by Mr. David Macpherfon, who " left un- touched the whole introductory portion of this famous * Chronykill,' in which after the faftiion of Roger of Chefter, and other venerable hiftorians, the author wifely. and learnedly treats of the Crea- tion, of angels, giants, &c. and of the general hiftory of the world, before he comes to that which more * Anderfon's Scottifli Biography, i6mo. Edinb. 184Z. H 50 Manual of pertinendy concerns the proper fubjed: of his work." (Ibid.) Ob. poft 1420. |ENRY of Marlborough, " fo called (I fuppofe) from the place of his birth at Marleburg in Wiltfhire, was Vicar of Ballyfcadan in the Diocefe of Dublin."* He wrote " Cronica excerpt a de medulla diverjorum crontcorum, pracipue Ranulphi Cejirenfis, una cum quibujdam capitulis de cronicis Hibernite," from the birth of our Lord to 1421. Part of it, viz. from 1348, was printed in Camden's " Britannia," pp. 829-836, fol. Lond. 1607. t Part alfo from 1285, tranflated, was publ. by Sir James Ware, with Campion and Hanmer, fol. Dubl. 1633 ; and a re- print, 8vo. Dubl. 1 809 J and there are extracts in Holinflied. A MS. of it, which ftops at 141 4, is in the Cott. Lib. ViteUius. E. v. and another in Trin. Coll. Dubl. L 115. F/. 1421. • Sir J. Ware, tranfl. by Walter Harris, vol. ii. " The writers of Ireland," p. 322. fol. Dubl. 1764. t The preceding portion of the " Annals of Ireland, inferted in Camden, from 1 162 to 1347, were written by Chriftopher Pembrige, who flourilhed in the latter year. (Ware, p. 83.) British Historians, 51 fHOMAS OTTERBOURNE, a Fran- cifcan. Hearne fays (Prasf. ad Chr. p. xxix.) concerning the date of his death, "Certe anno M.CCCC.XX. defmit chronica; quo proinde anno, vel faltem anno M.CCCC.XXI. ipfum jam valde infirmum vitam finifle exiftimo." " Chronica Regum Anglia." Publ. together with John Whethamftede by Th. Hearne, with the title of " Duo rerum Anglicarum Scrip- tores, viz. T. O. et J. W. ab origins gentis Britan- nicae ufque ad Edvardum IV." 1 vols. 8vo. Oxford, 1732. Ob. circ. 142 1. HOMAS de ELMHAM, firft a Monk of the Abbey of Saint Auguftine, Can- terbury, of which Abbey he was Trea- si furer in 1407, was about i4i4appointed Prior of the Monaftery of Lenton in the county of Nottingham, but he refigned the office in 1426. I. " Annates Regum Britonum, Saxonum et Anglorum a Bruto ad 1389." Cotton. Claudius, E. iv. 11. " Vita et gefta Henrici ^inti Anglorum Regis." Publ, by Th. Hearne, Svo. Oxford, 1727, A tranflation of Elmham's account of the battle of Agincourt is given in Sir Harris Nicolas' hiftory of that battle, pp. 260-264. Svo. Lond. 1832. ixi. " Chronica Henrici Quinti," in Latin verse. Cotton. 52 Manual of Jul. E. iv. Vefp. D. xiii. ; Bib. Reg. 13. A. xvi. ; and Bodl. MS. 462 and Rawl. B. 214 contain ex- trads from it. Hearne fays in his preface to the preceding work, pp. xxvii. xxviii. concerning this life of Henry, "Opufculi hujus metrici meminit cl. Seldenus.* Qui tamen luce publica indignum ju- dicavit. Cujus fententise et ipfe quoque lubens accedo." Fl. 1407-1426. OHN de MERYLYNCH or Muri- lynch, was a Monk of Glaftonbury. Two hiftories are attributed to him, but both apparently upon the fame flight foundation, viz. that his name is written in the MSS. as the owner, the words " Liber de per- quifito fuo," being added, which Tanner ftrangely gives as the title of a book. One of the works is in the Harl. MS. 641, and is defcribed in the Cat. as " Addit tones ad chronica Martini Poloni, in quibus pars hiftoriie regni R. Edw. I. et integra pene regni R. Edw. II. chronica continentur." To this there is added an account (moft probably only tranfcribed by Merylynch) of the proceedings in Kilkenny againft Dame Alice Kyteler, and her fon William Outlawe, profecuted for forcery in 1 3 24, by Richard de Ledrede, Bifhop of Oflbry, which was printed * " Hift. Decimar. cap. j. § 4. Meminit item in Catalogo auc- torum ad finem ejufdem operis." British Historians. cj for the Camden Society, under the editorfhip of Thomas Wright, M.A. Lond. 1843. The latter part of the Chronicle, viz. from 13 16, containing alfo the account of this trial, is in Bodl. MS. Rawl. B. 185, copied by Hearne for publication with his intended edition of John Caftor.* The fecond work is in Queen's Coll. Oxford (No. 41), and is a genealogical " Chronica," from 449 to Henry VI. 1422. Fl. circ. 1422. ETER BASSET was chamberlain to Henry V. whom he attended in all his campaigns, and whofe life he wrote in Englifh. Hall, in the lift of his au- thorities prefixed to his hiftory, mentions a writer of the name of " Jhon Baflet," but nothing is known concerning him, nor is he cited in the courfe of the work, while Peter Baflet is (at fol. 50, Hen- ry V.) ; which perhaps renders it probable that the John in the lift of authorities, may be a miftake for Peter. FL 1430. * Hearne appears to have alfo doubted Merylynch's being the author, for he fays, after quoting the title of the Harl. MS. " Non liquet unde didicerit auctor infcriptionis fupradicts (Simondlius, ut puto, Dewefius) Johannem Merelynch (Monachum Glafto- nienfem) confignaffe ilia quE a fol. 56. b. fignantur. Sed, ni fal- lor, exploratum habuit e fchedula quadam veteri in codice MS. nunc deperdita, e qua fchedula (ut conjeftura ailequor) infcriptio- nem contexuit." 54 Manual of OHN LANGDEN, firft a Benedidine of Ch. Ch. Canterbury, was afterwards Bifhop of Rochefter. He died whilft attending the council of Bafle. " ^n- glorum chronkon." Pits (p. 625) afcribes a hiflory of England to a John Langton, a Carmelite, but Tanner fays that he has confounded him with this John Langden. Ob. 1434. |ALTER BOWER, born at Hadding- ton, was eleded Abbot of St. Cohn in 141 8. At the requeft of Sir David Stewart of Roflyth, he undertook the continuation of Fordun's " Scotichronicon," which that hiftorian had brought down only as far as the 23rd chapter of the 5th book. He continued the work (which is divided into 1 6 books) to the death of James I. in 1437. His large fupplement is pub- lifhed with the original of For dun (q. v.) in the editions of Hearne and Goodall. Nat. 1385, ob. poji 1437. fHOMAS WALSINGHAM, born in Norfolk, was a Benedidtine Monk of St. Alban's. i. " Hiftoria brevis An- gliie" from 1273 to 1423. Publ. by Archbp. Parker, fol. Lond. (printed by Henry Bin- British Historians. 55 nemann) 15745 and p. 43 of Camden's " Anglica," &c. II. " Hypodigma Neuftria" a hiftory of Nor- mandy, " from the time it came firft into the hands of RoUo and his Danes, down to the fixth year of Henry V." (Nicolfon, p. 68.) Fol. (publ. by Archbp. Parker, and printed by John Daye) Lond. 1574; and p. 413 of Camden's "Anglica," &c. A£la Regis Henrici Sexti." Fl. 1440. Ill ICHOLAS CANTILUPE, born in Wales, was the fon of Lord Cantilupe. He entered into the order of Carme- lites, and was fucceflively Prior of Monafteries at Cambridge, Briftol, Gloucefter, and Northampton. " Chronicorum epitome." Ob. 1441. HOMAS RUDBURN, or Radburn, called Senior to diftinguifh him from another chronicler of the fame name (fee p. 61), born in Wiltfhire, was edu- cated at Merton College, and was appointed Arch- deacon of Sudbury in 1413, and Bifhop of St. Da- vid's in 1432. " Chronicon." Ob. 1441. 56 Manual of OGER ALBAN, born in Hertfordshire, was a Carmelite of London. " Proge- nies Regum Britannia ; " a genealogy from the Creation to 1453. It is ex- tant in Queen's Coll. Oxf. beautifully written on a long illuminated parchment roll, which is faid to have been a prefentation copy to Henry VI. Fl. 1453. OBERT BALE, (called fenior to dif- tinguifh him from another of the fame name, who was a Carmelite, and Prior ^ of Burnham, and died in 1 503,) born in London, was Recorder of that city. " Regis Ed- wardi tertii res gefta." Fl. 1461. OHN HARDING was born in the north of England, and was " an invete- rate enemy to the Scottifh nation, againft whom he carried arms in feveral expe- ditions," (Nicolfon, p. 68,) under Sir Robert Um- fraville. " "The chronicle ofjhon Hardyng (in metre) from the fir ft e begynnyng ofEnglande vnto the r eigne of Edward IV. wher he made an end. (With) a contin- uacion in profe to this our tyme," &c. 4to. Lond. (Richard Grafton), 1543, (two editions in January British Historians. ^y of that year*) ; and, edited by Sir Henry Ellis, 4to. Lend. 1812. There is a beautifully illuminated manufcript of this book in the Lanfdowne colleftion in the Brit. Muf. (No. 204), "which diiFers from the printed copies of the chronicle fo much, as not even to admit of collation." (Cooper's Public Records, vol. i. p. 118.) NaL 1379, ''^- P°ft H63. OHN WHETHAMSTEDE. John Frumentarius, or Whethahiftede, was fo named from the place of his birth in Hertfordfhire. His real name was Boftock. He was a Benediftine Monk of St. Al- bans, of which Monaftery he was at length elected Abbot. " Chronicon," from 1441 to 146 1. Publ. by Hearne with Th. Otterbourne, q. v. There is alfo a brief hiftory from Brute to the death of Henry V. 1422, taken from the 2nd part (" De viris illus- tribus,") of Whethamftede's "Granarium," in Bodl. MS. 585. Nat. inter 1365 et 1370, ob. 1464. * " It is Angular that there fliould be two editions of Hardyng's Chronicle both printed by Grafton in the month of January, 1543, differing in almoft every page, and one, in Grafton's own portion of the work, containing (in the reign of Henry VIII.) no lefs than twenty-nine pages more than the other." — Sir H. Ellis' pref. to his ed. p. xviii. 58 Manual of OHN CAPGRAVE, the well-known compiler of the " Nova Legenda Anglia" born in Kent, was a Monk of Lynn in Norfolk. Bale, Leland, and Wharton place his death at the year ftated below, but Pits at 1484. I. " Chronicle" from the Creation to 1417. In Bp. Moore's colleftion in the Camb. Lib. 11. " T>e nohilibus Henricis." This work confifts of a hiftory of fix Henries of England, of the fix Henries, Em- perors of Germany, and of lives of feveral eminent men of that name. Cotton. Tiberius, A. viii., and Corp. Chr. Coll. Camb. ccccviii. One of the lives, namely, that of Henry le Spenfer, Bifhop of Norwich, is printed in Wharton's " Anglia Sacra," vol. ii. pp. 359-361. Nat. 1422, oh. 1464. IICHOLAS MONT ACUTE, or Ma- nacute. Refpefting this author's pro- feffion, Pits fays (p. 656) " Mihi con- jedlura non levis eft eum literas hu- maniores in Etonenfi fchola juxta Windefhoram docuifle," but, on the other hand. Tanner replies, " Male Pitfeus eum in collegio Etonenfi profeflbrem fuifi'e dicit." He wrote " De regibus Anglia liber" which both biographers fay was formerly extant, together with other works of his, in Eton College library. Fl. 1466. British Historians. 59 JILLIAM of Worcefter. William Bo- toner, or Buttoner, commonly called William of Worcefter, born in ^riftol, was educated at Hart Hall, Oxford, under the patronage of Sir John Faftolf, whofe phyfician he afterwards was.* " Annates rerum An- glicarum," extending from 1324 to 149 1. Of the events from 1468 to the latter year the hiftory takes no notice, paffing over 11 years in filence, which renders it probable that William of Worcefter con- cluded the work at 1468, and that the fliort notice of 1 49 1 was added by fome other hand. Ant. A. Wood thinks he lived till 1480, and his death is proved to have taken place after 1473 by an origi- nal memorandum in a MS. in Magd. Coll. Oxford (" De facramentis dedicationis fermo"), which re- cords that it was prefented to Biftiop Waynflete "die fextodecimo menfis Decembris anno Chrifti 1473, per Willelmum Wyrceflj-e."f The annals are printed p. 424, vol. ii. of Hearne's " Liber niger Scaccarii," 8vo. Oxf. 1728 j and 8vo. Lond. 1771. Nat. 1415, ob. pofi 1473. • Halliwell, " On the charafter of Sir John Falftaff," p. 45. 8vo. Lond. 1841. t Ibid. 6o Manual of |ENRY the Minftrel, commonly called Blind Harry. The time at which he ! flourifhed is uncertain, Dempfter (who died in 1625) placing him in the 14th century, while Major (who was born in 1469, and whofe account is thus more credible, inafmuch as he lived nearer the time of our author) thus fpeaks concerning him in his hiftory, lib. iv. c. 15. "In- tegrum librum Guiklmi Vallacei Henricus, a nativi- tate luminibus captus, me^e infantile tempore cudit ; et quce vulgo dicebantur, carmine vulgari, in quo feritus erat, conjcripftt ." His poem is entitled, " Te aSlis and deidis of y' illujier and vailzeand Campioun Schir William Wallace." The only MS. known to be extant is in the Advocates' library, Edinburgh -, its date is 1488. The fir ft edition was printed at Edinb. by Rob. Lekprevik, 4to. 1570, and the fol- lowing are fome of the fubfequent editions. 4to. Edinb. 1594, 1601, and 161 1 ; 8vo. Edinb. 1620 8vo. Aberd. i6jO; 8vo. Edinb. 1648 and 1661 8vo. Glafg. 1665; i2mo. Edinb. 1673 '^'^^ ^7°9 — Glafg. 17133 8vo. Glafg. 1722 (an ufelefs abridgment) J 4to. Edinb. 17585* 3 vols. i2mo. * Dr. Jamiefon fays, (in the introduftion to his edition, p. ix.) " This is the edition which is here quoted in the notes as that of 1714. For I have been alTured, on good authority, that this edition, as well as that of the Bruce, was printed by Robert Free- bairn, printer to his Majefty, in the year 1 7,1 4 or 1 7 1 5 ; but that. British Historians. 6i Perth, 1790 J and, edited by Dr. Jamiefon, together with Barbour's " Bruce," 2 vols. 4to. Edinb. 1820. The firft volume contains the " Bruce," the fecond, "Wallace." Fl. circ. 1470. HOMAS RUDBURN, or Radburn, called Junior, to diftinguifh him from another of the fame name (fee p. 55), was a Benedidine of Winchefter. " Breviarium Chronicorum," from Brute to 1 234. Some extradts are printed pp. 404-430, vol. ii. of Leland's " Colle6lanea." It is in the Cottonian colledtion, Nero, A. xvii. and, tranflated, in the Harleian, No. 156. F/. 1480. ILLIAM CAXTON was firft a mercer, and then for thirty years fervant in Flanders, to Margaret, Duchefs of Bur- gundy, and fifter to Edward IV. " He afterwards returned into England, where finding, as he fays, an imperfeft hiftory, (begun by one of the monks of St. Alban's, fays John Pits, very unad- as he was engaged in the rebellion in the year lafl: mentioned before the work was ready for publication, they were fuffered to lie in a bookfeller's warehoufe, till A. 1758, when they were pub- lifhed either without titles, or with titles bearing the falfe date of this year." 62 Manual of vifedly,) he continued it in Englifli, giving it only the Latin title of ' FruSlus temporum.' * How fmall a portion of this work is owing to this author has been obferved before ; but he now ufually bears the name of the whole, which begins with the firfl inhabiting of this ifland, and ends (the lafl; year of Edward the Fourth) a. d. 1483." (Nicolfon, p. 6^.) He alfo wrote a continuation to Ralph Higden, q. v. The " Cronicles" were printed by their author, fol. 1480 ; Antwerp, printed by Gerard de Leew, 1493 ; (with the " Frute of Timis," in all the fol- lowing editions) fol. Weftminfter, by Wynkyn de Worde, 1497 ; and, " enprynted in Flete ftrete in the fyne of the Sonne," 1502 ; by Julian Notary, fol. 1 504 and 1 5 1 5 ; by Rich. Pynfon, " in Flete ftrete, in the fygne of the George," fol. 1510; and again by Wynkyn de Worde, 15 15, 1520, and 1528. Nat. circ. 1410, ob. 1491. * It appears from Lewis' Life of Caxton (p. 31. 8vo. Lond. 1737) and Ames' Typ. Ant. (Herbert's ed. vol. iii. p. 1430, et feq. 4to. Lond. 1 790,) that this is incorreft, and that Caxton cal- led his work " The Chronicles of England," while " Fruftus temporum," is the title of another hiftory, (afterwards printed with it) which was written by a Schoolmafter of St. Alban's, and printed there in 1483. It contains precifely the fame as Caxton's Chronicle, " with the addition of flight notices of Popes and Em- perors." (Dibdin's Lib. Comp. p. 179.) There is an edition without name, place, or date, which is fuppofed to have been printed by William Machlinia in London. British Historians. 63 OHN ROSS, or Roufe, was born at Warwick, and after having travelled over almoft all England, and having invefligated many libraries, out of which he made large coUedlions, he retired at length to Guy's Cliff, (fo named from Guy, Earl of Warwick> who, when weary of the world, lived there the life of a hermit,) near Warwick, on the banks of the Avon. Befides feveral local hiftories, he wrote " Hijioria Regum Anglia" which was publifhed by Th. Hearne, 8vo. Oxf. 17 16, and again in 1745. A fhort hiftorical account of the Earls of Warwick to 1477, is printed pp. 217-239 of " Hiftoria Ri- cardi II." ed. Th. Hearne, 8vo. Oxf 1729. Ob. 149 1. OHN WARKWORTH, B. D. was Mafter of Peter-Houfe, Camb. from 1473, a Prodtor in the Convocation of 1474, and Redtor of Wifbeach, which he refigned in 1473 for the living of Leverington, both in Cambridgeftiire. " Chronicle of the firft thirteen years of King Edward the Fourth's reign." Edited by J. O. Halliwell, and printed for the Camden Society, 4to. Lond. 1839. There are fome extradts in Leland's " Colledtanea," vol. ii. pp. 471- 499. Ob. 1500. 64 Manual of OBERT FABIAN, a rich merchant, was born in London, of which city he was Sheriff in 1493-4. " T'Af Concor- daunce of Hijiories ;" a chronicle of En- gland and France. Fol. Lond. printed by Pynfon, 1516} by W. Raftall, 1533; by John Raynes,* 2 vols. 1542; 2 vols, by John Kyngfton, 1559; and, edited by Sir Henry Ellis, 4to. Lond. 1 8 1 1 . Two or three pages of extracts are at the end of vol. iii. of Leland's " Colledanea." 0^. 15 12. [ILLIAM ELPHINSTONE, born at Glafgow in 1431, or as fome fay, amongft whom is Keith, in 1437, ^^^ appointed in 1482 Biihop of Rofs, and in 1484, was tranflated to Aberdeen. In 1500 he built and endowed King's College, in Old Aberdeen, to found which he had obtained a bull from Pope Alexander VI. in 1494. His " Hiftoria et Anti- quitates Scotorum" is extant amongft the Fairfax MSS. in the Bodleian, (No. 8,) and Fairfax fays, in a note written in it, that he believes that to be the original MS., and that " by y' laft leafe in this booke, itt feems this booke (before the defolution * " Some copies of this date with the name of Bonham as the printer, are only the fame book with a frelh title-page." Dibdin's Lib. Comp. p. 1 86. British Historians. 65 of Abbays in Scotland) did belonge to the monaftery of Dumfermeline." He alfo adds, " Note that the Earle of Dumfermelin tould mee in the yeare 1657, that he had a very faire ancient manufcript of the Hiftory of Scotland formerly belonginge (to) that monaftery, but I did never fee itt. I beleve 'twas tranfcribed out of this." In another note he fays, that his copy "was fent me (Dec. 17, 1650) by the Lady Hathernden (widdow to the famous poet Wm. Drumond) by j" hands of her hufband's brother, viz. Mr. James Drumond." The hiftory " is divided into eleven books, whereof the firft five are John Fordun'g chronicle verbatim." * A tranfla- tion into French made by one Grem. Domate, in 15 1 9, is in the Abbey of St. Genevieve in Paris. f In Guft. Haenel's " Catalogi Libb. Manufcriptorum qui in bibliothecis Gallias, Helvetias, &c. aflervan- tur" (4to. Lips. 1 830) ; it is marked as O. 2, of the " MSS. Fran^ais en folio." Nat. 143 1, ob. 1 5 14. [HILIP FLATSBURY of the village of Johnftown, near Naas, wrote a hif- tory of Ireland to 15 17, at the requeft of Gerald, Earl of Kildare, the Lord Deputy. It is however, little more than a tran- * " Eflky on the Ancient Inhabitants of Scotland." By Th. Innes, M. A. vol. i. p. 219. 8vo. Lond. 1729. f Id. vol. ii. p. 633. K 66 Manual of fcript of Pembrige's and Marlborough's Annals, publ. by Camden in his " Britannia." The " Chro- nicles of Ireland," in Holinfhed, are taken from this writer and Henry of Marlborough, and his work is in MS. in Trin. Coll. Dublin, B. 55. Fl. 15 17. IR THOMAS MORE was the fon of Sir John More, Judge of the King's Bench, and was born in London. In 1508 he was appointed Judge of the Sheriff's Court, in 1520 Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, in 1523 Speaker of the Houfe of Com- mons, in 1526 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- cafter, and in 1530 Lord High Chancellor. Befides many trafts againft the Reformation, epiftles to Erafmus, &c., the " Utopia," and mifcellaneous pieces, he wrote, i. "Hijiorie of the pitifuU life and unfortunate death of Edward the Fifth?' Edited by W. Sheares, i2mo. Lond. 1641 ; in his collefted works in Englifh, fol. Lond. " at the coftes and charges of John Cawood, John Waly, and Richard Tottell," 1557, and in the firft volume of Kennet's " Complete Hiftory of England, to the death of William 3rd." fol. Lond. 1706, and 1719. It is alfo in Stow, Speed, and Holinfhed, and incorreftly in Harding and Hall ; and a Latin verfion under the title of" Hiftoria Richardi III." is in his " Om- nia Latina opera," fol. Lovan. 1566, and Franc. British Historians. 67 1689. II, " Hijiory of Richard the ^rd." This, which was left unfinifhed in the original,* but was completed in Englifh by Edward Hall, was written firft in Latin, but the tranflation alone has been publifhed. It is with all the Englifli editions of the preceding, and both alfo were printed at Chifwick, 1 821, in 8vo. and with Arthur Caley's " Memoirs of Sir Thomas More, with a tranflation of the Uto- pia," &c. 1 vols. 4to. Lond. 1808. The original Latin MS. written by Sir T. More's own hand, is in the Heralds' Coll. No. 43. Nat. 1480, deca'p. 1535. 5IOHN RASTELL was a Printer in London, where he was born. He mar- ried a fifter of Sir Thomas More. " The Paftyme of People; the Crony cles of diuerfe realmys, and moji fpecyally of the realme of England" Fol. Lond. printed by the Author (1529); and edited by Rev*. T. F. Dibdin^ 4to, Lond. 18 II. The work embraces a hiftory of Rome, from Silvius Poftumus to the Emperor Maximilian I. i486 ; Papal hiftory from St. Peter to Pope Innocent VIII. 1483 ; Flemifli, from Francus fon of Heftor to Maximilian I. of Germany, 14865 French, from Francus II, about 30 B. c. to Charles VIII. 1483 ; Norman, from * Sir Th. More wrote as far as p. 239 of Sheares' ed. 68 Manual of Rollo, 912, to Robert, fon of William the Conq. 1087 ; and Britifli, from Brute to 1485. With the exception of the laft, the chronicles are fcarcely any thing elfe than a mere lift of Sovereigns' names. Ob. 1536. IECTOR BOETHIUS, or Boece, born at Dundee about 1470, or, as fome fay, 1465, was appointed in 1 500, by Biihop Elphinftone, Principal of his newly founded College at Aberdeen. The time of his death is varioufly ftated, fome fixing it at 1536, and others about 1550 ; but the former is the true date, " for on the 22nd of November, in that year, the King prefented John Garden to the reftory of Tyrie, vacant by the death of Mr. Hedor Bois.' "* " Sco- torum Hijioria ab illius gentis origine;" i. e. from Gathelus, fon of Cecrops. Fol. Par. by Badius Afcenfius, 1526 (this edition contains 17 books, ending with the death of James I. 1437) ; — con- taining books 1 8 and 1 9, bringing the hiftory down to the reign of James III. with an Appendix of thirty-five pages by John Ferrerius, a Piedmontefe, fol. Par. 1574, 1575, and 1577; fol. Edinb. 1592. Tranflated into Scotch by Bellenden,t fol. Edinb. * Irving's Lives of Scotifli Writers, vol. i. p. 1 1 . 1 2mo. Edinb. 1839. t John Bellenden, or Balantyne, Archdeacon of Moray, and Canon ofRofs, is faid to have been one of the greateft fcholars of British Historians. 69 (printed by Th. Davidfon), without date, but fup- pofed to be 1536, and 2nd ed. 1541 ; and edited by Mr. Maitland, forming 1 vols, of Bellenden's works in three vols. 4to. Edinb. 1 821, 22. A me- trical verfion of the hiftory "containing about 70,000 lines, done by fome one whofe name has not been afcertained, is preferved in the library of the Univerfity of Cambridge."* The " Defcription of Scotland," which precedes the hiftory, was tranflated into Englilh by William Harrifon, and is prefixed to the " Hiftory pf Scotland," in the fecond vol. of Holin/hed's Chronicles, q. v. A catalogue of Scotch kings taken from Boethius is in vol. i. pp. 401-424 of Gruterus' " Chronicon chronicorum politicum," (publ. under the name of Gualterius,) 8vo. Francof. 1614. Nat. circ. 1470, ob. 1536. AMES GRACE was a native of Kil- kenny. In Grace's Memoirs of the Grace family (vol. i. p. 4, 4to. Lond. 1823) he is faid to have belonged to his time. He was born towards the clofe of the fifteenth century, and firft ftudied at the Univerfity of St. Andrew's, and afterwards at Paris, where he took the degree of D. D. In 1 530-1 he was employed by James V. in tranflating Boethius' Hiftory, into which he introduced two poems by himfelf, " The proheme of the Cof- mographe," and " The proheme of the Hiftory." He died at Rome in 1550. * Anderfon's Scotifh Biography. 70 Manual of the Priory of St. John in Kilkenny, and to have died of the plague. His "^ Annates Hibernia" (printed by the Irifh Archaeological Society, with a tranflation and notes by the Rev. Rich. Butler, A.B. 4to. Dubl. 1842,) extend from 1074 to 1370, "from which date the entries confift chiefly of the obits of the Lacys and Burkes from 1326 to 1515. * * * * Thefe are followed by the obits of the Butlers, in chronological order, which are fucceeded by the obits of the Geraldines.* " Fl. circ. 15J9. |HOMAS LANQUET, or Lanket, was a Student at Oxford, but it is not known to what College or Hall he belonged. He intended to have writ- ten a Chronicle of England from the Creation to his time, but death put a ftop to his labours, when they had only reached as far as the birth of our Lord. But Bifhop Cooper f wrote a continuation, bringing the hiftory down to the period of the refpeftive editions. " Epitome of Chronicles." 4to. Lond. by Berthelet, 1549 and 1554; continued by Robert * Mr. Butler's Introduftion, p. vii. t Thomas Cooper, born in Oxford, was firft a Chorifter of St. Mary Magdalene Coll. of which he afterwards became Fellow and Mailer of the School. He was made Dean of Ch. Ch. in 1567, in 1569 Dean of Gloucefter, and in 1570 Biftiop of Lin- coln. In 1584 he was tranflated to Winchefter, where he died in 1 594, and was buried in the Cathedral. British Historians. 71 Crowley, (a very incorredl edition,) 4to. Lond. printed by William Seres, 15 59' ^g^"^j with Cooper's Supplement, 4to. Lond. 1560, 1565, and 1569. Nat. 1521, 0^. 1545. DWARD HALLE, born in London, was educated firft at Eton, and after- wards at King's College, Camb., whi- ther he went in 1 5 14. He subfequently became Recorder of London. " The Union of the two noble and illujire famelies of Lancajire and Torke" extending from Henry IV. to Henry VIU. Fol. Lond. (by Berthelet) 1542;* printed by Grafton, and continued by him from 1532 to 1546, fol. Lond. 1548, and 1550 ; edited by Sir Henry Ellis, 4to. Lond. 1 809. Nat. circ. 1499, ob. 1547. RTHUR KELTON, a native of Shrop- fhire. He wrote in metre, " A Chro- nycle with a genealogie declaryng that the Brittons and Welfhemen are lineally e dyjcended from Brute y It is in feven-line ftanzas. * Bilhop Tanner, Biblio. Britt. mentions the edition by Ber- thelet, but no copy is known to be extant. There are three edi- tions printed in black letter by Grafton, the wood cut initial letters are the fame as ufed by Berthelet, who probably printed a por- tion of the firft edition, which was afterwards finiftied by Grafton. 72 Manual of i6mo. Lond. (printed by Rich. Grafton,) 1547- FL 1547- OHN MAJOR, or Mair, was born at Gleghorn, near North Berwick, in the year 1478, as fome fay, amongft whom is Mackenzie, or in 1469 according to others, including Chalmers and the Biographic Uni- verfelle. In 1493, after having firft ftudied at Chrift's Coll. Camb., he went to the Univerfity of Paris, whence he removed in 1498 to Navarre, where he was created D. D. in 1505. In 15 19 he returned to Scotland, taught theology for feveral years at Glafgow and St. Andrew's, went back to Paris, and finally returned once more, about 1530, to Scotland, was chofen Profeflbr of Divinity at St. Andrew's, and afterwards became Provofl: there. There is as great difcrepancy in the dates given of his death as in thofe of his birth, fome faying that it took place in 1 540 (as Mackenzie) ; others in 1547, "but it is certain that he was alive in 1549, for in that year he fubfcribed (by proxy, on account of his great age) the national conftitutions of the Church of Scotland. He died foon after, probably in 1550, which muft have been in his eighty-fecond year." (Chalmers.) " Hijioria Majoris Britannia tarn Anglia quam Scotia." 4to. Par. printed by Badius Afcenfius, 1521 j 4to. Edinb. 1740. Nat. 1469, ob. circ. 1550. British Historians. 73 OHN PROCTOR, born in Somerfet- fliire, was fellow of All Souls' Coll. Oxf, and afterwards Matter of Tun- bridge School. Newcourt (Repert. Eccl. fol. Lond. 1708. vol. i. p. 275,) fuppofes him to have been the fame as a John Prodlor who was made Redtor of St. Andrew, Holborn, in 1578, and died in 1 584, but Dr. Blifs in his ed. of Wood's "Athenae," (4to. Lond. 18 13, vol. i. col. 235,) doubts this, as the hiftorian was a Roman Catholic, while the Reftor mull have been a Proteftant. But may not the former have changed his religion, as many others did ? " The Hijiorie of Wyates rebel- lion." i6mo. printed by Robert Caley, Lond. 1554 and 1555, and reprinted in vol. iii. (pp. 65-114) of the " Antiquarian Repertory," 2nd ed. 4 vols. 4to. Lond. 1807-9. ^^- ^SSS- EORGE LILY, fon of the Gramma- rian, was born in London, and educated at Magdalene Coll. Oxford. He after- wards became a Prebendary of St. Paul's, and of Canterbury. " Chronicon, Jive hrevis enume- ratio Regum et Principum Britannia" from Egbert, A. D. 801. 4to. Venet. 1548; 4to. Franc. 1565; 4to. Bafil. 1577 ; pp. 319-400, vol. i. of Gruterus' "Chronicon chronicorum politicum," (publifhed 74 Manual of under the name of Gualterius) 2 vols. 8vo. Franc. 16 14; and p. 104 of Paul Jovius' " Defcriptiones regionum atque locorum/' 8vo. Bafil. 1561. Two fmall pieces entitled " Lancaftrite et Eboracenjis de regno contentiones" and " Genealogia Regum Anglia" are alfo printed, the firft in all, and the latter in fome of the editions of the " Chronicon." The " Lancaftriae," &c. occupies in Jovius three pages, the " Genealogia" one. Ob. 1559. lUMPHREY LHOYD, born at Den- bigh, ftudied at Brafen-nofe College, Oxford, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1547, and Mafter of Arts in 1 5 5 1 . He afterwards retired to his native place, and praftifed medicine there. " A Chronicle of Wales from Cadwallader to Lewellin" the laft Welfh prince, 1293. Cotton. Caligula A. vi. dated at London, July 17, 1559. ^^- 1568. fOBERT LINDSAY, of Pitfcottie. Of the perfonal hiftory of this writer no- thing is known. His " Chronicles of Scotland" extend from 1436 to 1565- They were publifhed (continued by another hand to 1604) fol. Edinb. 1728; Glafg. 17495 iimo. Edinb. 1778 ; and, edited by John Graham Dalyell, 1 vols. 8vo. Edinb. 18 14. Fl. circ. 1570. British Historians. 75 OHN KNOX was born at Gifford, Eaft Lothian, and educated at Saint Andrew's. His " Hiftorie of the refor- matioun of religioun within the realm of Scotland" from 1422, was publifhed after his death, 4to Lond. 1586, but copies of this edition are very rare, and none of them are perfedt. The fubfe- quent editions are, — with the life of Knox by David Buchanan, fol. Lond. 1644, and 4to. Edinb. in the fame year j with the life by Matthew Crawfurd, fol. Edinb. 1732 (the genuine and complete edition) j 4to Glafg. 176 1 ; 4to. Edinb. 1790 j 2 vols. 8vo. Paifley, 179 1 ; and with life, &c. by Wm. Mc. Gavin, 8vo. Glafg. 1831. Nat. 1505, ob. 1572. ICHARD GRAFTON was a Printer in London. He was imprifoned by Henry VIII. in 1540 for fix weeks, for printing the Bible without notes, " and, before his releafe, was bound in a penalty of £100 that he fhould neither fell, nor print, nor caufe to be printed, any more Bibles, until the king and the clergy Ihould agree upon a tranflation. * * * No particulars have been handed down to us of his ficknefs, death, or interment, nor do we find any account of him after 1572, when by an accidental fall he broke his leg." (Chalmers.) His "Abridg- ment of the Chronicles of England" was publiihed in 76 Manual of 1562, printed by Richard Tottyl, and it was re- printed in 1564, 1570, and 1572, all in i6mo. An abridgment of the abridgment, entitled " A Man- uell of the Chronicles of Englande," appeared in 1565, printed by J. Kingfton, 24mo. But it was in 1569 that his chief work appeared, viz. his " Chronicle at large and meere hiftory of the affayres of Englande, and Kinges of the fame, deduced from the creation of the worlde unto the fir fl y ere of Clueene Elizabeth." 1 vols. fol. printed by Henry Den- ham; and reprinted, 2 vols. 4to. Lond. 1809. Fl. 1537-1572. [EORGE FERRARS, a Lawyer, was born in Hertfordftiire, either in 151a, or about 15 10. He was educated firft at Oxford, and afterwards entered at Lincoln's Inn. Stowe in his Chronicle (fol. ed. p. 632), fays that he was the author of the hiftory of Queen Mary, which is in Grafton's Chronicle. He alfo wrote fix of the pieces in the " Mirrour for Magiftrates." Nat. 15 12, ol. 1579. APHAEL HOLINSHED. VeryHttle is known concerning this author, fome faying that " he had an Univerfity edu- cation, while others, denying this, affirm that he was Steward to Thomas Burdett, of Brom- British Historians. 77 cote, in the county of Warwick, efq." (Chalmers.) His " Chronicles ofEnglande, Scotlande, and Irelande" were firft publifhed in two vols., with wood-cuts,* fol. Lond. 1577. The fubfequent editions were, 3 vols. fol. 1587, and 6 vols. 4to. 1807-8. The hif- tory of Scotland was publifhed feparately, 2 vols. 4to. Arbroath, 1805. Several ftieets which were difpleafing to Queen Elizabeth and her miniftry were fupprefled in the fecond edition ; thefe were reprinted apart in 1728. Holinlhed had feveral coadjutors in writing his hiftory, of whom the chief were, William Harrifon,t who is the author of the " Hif- torical Defcription of the ifland of Britaine," in the I ft vol., and who tranflated the " Defcription of Scotland," from Boethius, which is in the 2nd vol. ; Richard Stanyhurft, who wrote " The Defcription, Conqueft, Inhabitation, and troublefome eftate of Ireland," and who continued the " Chronicles of Ireland" from 1509, where Holinlhed flopped, to 1586, together with John Hooker, alias Vowell, Chamberlain of the city of Exeter, which he repre- fented in Parliament, who alfo tranflated the " Con- quefl of Ireland" from Giraldus Cambrenfis ; and * " Among thefe cuts there is one of a Guillotine." Dibdin's Lib. Comp. p. 195. f Born in London, was educated at Weftminfter School under Alex. Nowell, and then ftudied at both Oxford and Cambridge. He fubfequently became Reftor of Radwinter in Eflex, Canon of Windfor, and Chaplain to Sir Wm. Brooke, Warden of the Cinque Ports. He died in 1592. 78 MA^fUAL OF Francis Botevilkj alias. Thin, who continued the "Chronicles of Scotland" from 1571 to 1586, and likewife with others the " Chronicles of England" in the 3rd vol. for the fame period. The " De- fcription," "Chronicle," and "Conqueft" of Ireland, and the " Chronicle of Scotland," are all in the 2nd vol. Stow alfo affifted in the work. Ok circ. 1580. DMUND CAMPION, or Campian, born in London, was educated at Chrift Church Hofpital, and afterwards at St. John's Coll. Oxford. He was ordained by Richard Cheney, Bifhop of Gloucefter, about 1564, but in 1569 he apoftatized from the Church of England, and joined that of Rome. In 1573 he entered the Society of Jefuits, was afterwards a pro- felTor at Prague, and then in 1580 came over to England, when he was feized by the government, and put to death for fome real or pretended confpi- racy. He wrote a " Hijiory of Ireland," from the year of the world 1957, which was publ. by Sir James Ware, together with Spenfer's " View of the ftate of Ireland," and Marlborough and Hanmer's Hiftories of Ireland, fol. Dublin, 1633. It is alfo in vol. i. of " Ancient Irilh Hiftories ; the works of Spencer, Campion, Hanmer, and Marlebur- rough," 2 vols. 8vo. Dublin, 1809. Holinflied made ufe of it in his " Chronicles of Ireland." A British Historians. 79 fliort piece alfo by Campion, entitled " Nar ratio de divortio Henr. VIII. ab uxore Catherine et ab Eccle- fta Catholica Romana difcejftone" is printed p. 733 of Harpsfeld's " Hift. Eccl." q. v. The original MS. of the hiftory was fold by Mr. Leigh Sotheby, June 26, 1843. Nat. 1540, ob. 1581. EORGE BUCHANAN was born at Killearn in Stirlingfhire. He was edu- cated at St. Andrew's and at Paris, where he became a Profeflbr. From that time (about 1531) tiU 1560 he led a very un- fettled life, chiefly owing to the danger which hung over him on account of his Proteftantifm, and the bitter fatires which he wrote againft the Monks. In the latter year, however, he returned to Scotland, where he thenceforth remained. In 1 5 66 he was ap- pointed Principal of the College of St. Leonard, at St. Andrew's, and fome years after was made Tutor to James VI., one of the Lords of the Council, and Lord Privy Seal. " Rerum Scoticarum Hijioria" from Fergus the firft king of Scotland about b. c. 330. Fol. Edinb. 1582 and 15835 fol. Genev. 1583 J with the " De jure regni apud Scotos dialo- gus," 8vo. Francof. ad Moen. 1594 and 1638; Amfl:. i2mo. 1642, 8vo. 1643, ^''^'^ ^°^- '^^SS'> ^^°- Ultraj. 1668 i 8vo. Traj. ad Rh. 1697; 8vo. Edinb. 1727 ; edited by James Man, 8vo. Aberd. 8o Manual of 1762 J and in the two editions of his works, the one edited by Th. Ruddiman, 2 vols. fol. Edinb. 17 1 5, and the other, with a preface by Peter Bur- mann, 2 vols. 4to. Lugd. Bat. 1725. The editions of the tranflations are, fol. Lond. 1690 ; tranflated by Wm. Bond, 3 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1721-2 (the third vol. contains the " Detedio Maria; Reginae," and the treatife " De jure regni" in Englifh) j fol. Lond. 1724; 8vo. 3 vols. Lond. 1733; Edinb. 175 1 J 8vo. 2 vols. Edinb. 1762 and 1766 ; 8vo. 3 vols. Edinb. 1821 5 and, with notes and a con- tinuation to the Union by James Aikman, 4 vols. 8vo. Glafg. 1827. Books 14 to 19 were tranflated and publ. under the title of "An impartial account of the affairs of Scotland from the death of King James V. to the tragical exit of the earl of Murray ; by an eminent hand." 8vo. Lond. 1705. Nat. 1506, ob. 1582. ICHOLAS HARPSFELD was born in London, and went firft to Winchef- ter School, and from there to New College, Oxford, where he was admitted Fellow in 1536. In 1544 he was chofen Principal of White Hall (which ftood where Jefus College now is), in 1546 Profeflbr of Greek, and in 1554 Archdeacon of Canterbury, in the place of Edm. Cranmer (brother of the Archbifliop), who was de- prived on account of his marriage. On the acceffion British Historians, 8i however of Queen Elizabeth, he, being a zealous Romanift, loft all his preferments, and was confined for the reft of his life in prifon, for fome years in the cuftody of Archbifhop Parker, who afforded him much afliftance in compiling his hiftory. It is entitled " Hijioria AngUcana Ecclejiafiica." Edited by Rich. Gibbons, a Jefuit, fol. Douay, 1622. In Cotton. MS. Vitell. C. ix. there are two other works by Nic. Harpsfeld, in his own handwriting, which are alfo (but according to Tanner, wrongly) afcribed to his brother, John Harpsfeld, who was Archdea- con of London, and died in 1578. The one is " Hiftoria Eccleftaftka verfibus elegiacis" and the other, " Chronicon a diluvio ad 1559." Ob. 1583. OHN FOXE was born at Bofton, Lin- colnfhire, and ftudied at Brafen-nofe College, Oxford, from whence he re- moved to Magdalene Coll., of which he became a Fellow. He was however expelled in 1545 as a heretic, and in the reign of Queen Mary went abroad, and fettled at Bafil. He returned when Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, and obtained a prebend in Salifbury Cathedral. He was alfo Vicar of St. Giles, Cripplegate, where he was buried. His work was firft publifhed in Latin, entitled, " Rerum in Ecclefia geftarum quae pjiremis et periculojis his temporibus evenerunt commentarii. M 8a Manual of Pars prima, in qua de rebus per Angliam et Scotiam gejlis narratio continetur" Fol. Baf. 1559, and 8vb, Argent, 1554. To this laft ed. are appended " Aphorifmi Joanrtis Vuicleui cum colleElaneis quibuf- dam ReginaldiPecokiEpi/copi Cicejirenfis ; item,OTriiT- Toypaipi'a quaedam ad Oxonienfes." A fecond vol. called "Martyrum Galliae, &c. Hiftoria," was added in continuation by Hen. Pantaleon, fol. Bafil. 1563. The Englifli tranflation has the following title, * 'A^es and monuments oftheje latter andperillous dayes, touching matters of the Church, wherein ar compre- hended and defer ibed the great perjecutions and horrible troubles that haue bene wrought and pra£lifed by the Romijhe prelates. Specially e in this realme of England and Scotlande from the yeare of oure Lorde a thou- Jande vnto the tyme nowe prefent." Fol. Lond. printed by John Daye (1563) ; 1 vols. fol. by the fame printer, 1570, and enlarged, 1576, and 1583 ; 1 vols. fol. Lond. by Peter Short, 1596-7 ; 2 vols, fol. Lond. 1610; 3 vols. 1618, 1632, and 1641 (the laft black-letter edition) ; 2 vols. 1650 j 3 vols. 1684;* and, with the life of Foxe, &c. by Rev**. George Townfend, M. A., edited by Rev**. Stephen R. Cattley, M.A. 8 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1836-41. * Up to this date Lowndes and Watt each give only nine edi- tions, but together they give eleven ; the compiler has omitted one mentioned by Watt, that of 1612, and has inferted one of 1610, which is probably the one Watt means, and is in Douce's col- leftion in the Bodleian. British Historians. 83 Two of the abridgments are, by Timothy Bright, M.D. 4to, Lond. 1589, and by Rev^ M. H. Sey- mour, M.A. 8vo. Lond. 1838. Nat. 1517, ob. 1587. flLLIAM PATTEN, a Londoner, whom Tanner fuppofes to have been Reftor of St. Mary Hill, becaufe he ^ dates his book " out of the parfonage of S. Mary Hill in London this xxviii of January, 1548," but Newcourt in his Survey of the Diocefe does not give him amongft the incumbents of that parifh. Thin in his Catalogue of Hiftorians in Holinfhed, vol. iii. p. 1591, mentions him as then living (in 1587). He accompanied the Duke of Somerfet's expedition into Scotland in 1547, and wrote the hiftory of it, which he called " The expe- dicion into Scotlade of the moji woorthely fortunate prince Edward Duke of Soomerfet." lamo. Lond. printed by Grafton, 1 548, and reprinted in J. G. Dalyell's " Fragments of Scotifh Hiftory," 4to. Edinb. 1798. Fl. 1547-1587. OHN HERD was eleded Scholar of King's Coll, Camb. from Eton in 1529, was afterwards Fellow, and took the degree of M. D. in 1 5 5 8 . He was alfo a Prebendary of York and Lincoln. " Hijioria An- 84 Manual of glicana, carmine heroico, continens regna Edw. IV. et V. Rich. III. et Hen. VII." Cotton MS. Julius. C. ii. Ob. 1588. EORGE MARJORIBANKS. All that is known concerning this writer is given in the following note at the end of his Chronicle,—" Thus ends the Analls of George Marioribancks, burges of Edinburghe, fone to Michaell Marioribancks, balyie of the faid burghj quho departed this mortall lyfFe vpone the 20 day of November in Anno 1591." His fhort " Annals of Scotland from the yeir 15 14 to the yeir 1 591," were publ. by John Graham Dalyell, 8vo. Edinb. 18 14. AVID CHAMBERS was born in Roff- fhire, and educated at Aberdeen. He entered into Holy Orders, and after paffing through inferior gradations, be- came Chancellor of Rofs. In 1 564 he was appointed a Lord of Seffion, and thereupon he afTumed the title of Lord Ormond. He was driven from the kingdom with Queen Mary, but fubfequently returned, and in 1586 was reftored to his office. " Hiftoire ab- hregee de tovs les Roys de France, Angle ter re (from Brute), et Efcojfe ; plus, V epitome de I'hijioire Romaine British Historians. 85 des Papes et Empereurs." 8vo. Par. 1579.* Nat. circ. 1530, OiJ. 1592. OHN LESLIE was educated at the Univerfity of Aberdeen, and in 1547 was made Canon of the Cathedral of that city. When the Reformation began to fpread he zealoufly oppofed it, and was one of the chief defenders of the Romilh Church. In 1565 he was appointed to the See of Rofs, vacant by the death of Bifhop Sinclair. After Queen Mary's flight into England and imprifonment, he was fent for by her to give his afliftance and advice, but having engaged in plans for her deliverance, was arretted in 1571, and confined in the Tower till 1574, when he was liberated at the Vequefl: of the King of France. He then went abroad, vainly en- deavouring to roufe the continental fovereigns in behalf of his royal miftrefs. In 1593 he was made Bifliop of Coutances in Lower Normandy, but he retired into the Monaftery of Guirtenburg near Bruffels, where he died. i. " De origine, moribus, et rebus gejiis Scotorum, accejjit regionum et injularum Scotiie, cum ejujdem tabula topografhica, dejcriptio ;" from Gathelus, fon of Cecrops. 4to. Rom; 1578, and 1675. That part which contains the reign of Queen Mary is in Sam. Jebb's " De vita et geftis * According to Nicolfon there was an edition in 1572, but the compiler has not feen it mentioned |ny where elfe. 86 Manual of British Historians. Mariae Scotorum ReginE Scrlptores xvi." fol. Lond. 1725, vol. i. pp. 149-236. II. " Hijiory of Scot- land from the death of James I. in 1436 to the year 1 56 1," written in the Scottifh vernacular. Pub- liihed by the Bannatyne Club, edited by Thomas Thomfon, efq. 4to. Edinb. 1830. Nat. 1527, oh. 1596. I ERARD of Cornwall. (Girardus Cor- nubienfis.) Not knowing where to place this writer in the chronological order, as nothing is found any where concerning his life, it has been thought beft to put him at the end. He is faid to have written a book, " De geftis Britonum," and another, " De geftis Regum Weft-Saxonum," which are referred to three times by Th. Rudburn, in his Hiftory of Winchef- ter. Thin alfo mentions him in his Catalogue of hiftorians in Holinflied, p. 1590, and Hearne has printed an extract from the Saxon Hiftory, being " Hiftoria Guidonis de Warwyke," from MS. 147 in Magd. Coll. Oxford, in his appendix to the " Chronicon de Dunftaple," vol. ii. pp. 825-830, 8vo. Oxf. 1733. There is not however any thing elfe of Gerard's in the Magd. MS. (which the com- piler has feen), and the fhort piece which has been printed is written at the end of Higden's Poly- chronicon, on the fame page with it, and preceding its copious index. APPENDIX OF ANONYMOUS HISTORIES. A. D. 1096 NNALES Inisfalenfes" printed from two MSS. the one in the Bodleian, the other in Dublin, the hiftories extending refpec- tively from 428 to 1096, and from 201 to 1088, are in the fecond vol. of O'Conor's " Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores." 1 131. '■'■ Annales Ultonienfes" from 431 to 1131. They are in vol. iv. of the fame coUeftion with the preceding. There are Englifh extrafts from A. D. 431 to 1302, taken from a partly Englifh and partly Latin verfion, which ex- tends to 1305, in the Brit. Muf (formerly vol. xlix. of the Clarendon MSS., numbered 4795 in Ayfcough's Cat.) pp. 56-71 of Rev*". James Johnftone's ed. of the " Chronicle of Man," 4to. Copenh. 1774. 88 Appendix of 1 13 5- 1 147. " Gefta Stephani Regis Anglorum et Ducis Normannorum." In Du Chefne's " Hif- toriae Normannorum Scriptores," pp. 927-975} fol. Par. 1619. 1 154. The Saxon Chronicle, from the Incarnation of our Lord to the death of King Stephen. Part of it with a Latin tranflation is fubjoined to Wheloc's Bede, and it was publ. by Edm. Gibfon (afterwards Biihop of London) alfo with a Latin verfion, 4to. Oxon. 1692; with an Englifh verfion, notes, &c. by the Rev*". James Ingram, D. D. (Pref. Trin. Coll. Oxf.) 4to. Lond. 1823; and it was printed with a tranflation, by the Record Commiffion in 183 1 in vol. i. of " Materials for the Hiftory of Britain," which is not yet finifhed, and therefore not publifhed. A tranflation by Mifs Gurney was privately printed at Norwich, 8vo. 1 8 1 9. 1 1 63. " Chronicon ccenohiiJanSlie Cruets Edinburgen- fis." This Chronicle reaches from the coming of Julius Caefar to 1163, and is as far as 734 an epitome of Bede. The more important part of it is in Wharton's " Anglia Sacra," vol. i. pp. 152-162. fol. Lond. 1691. 1232. " Annates de Margan" a Monaftery in Gla- morganfliire, founded by Robert, Earl of Anonymous Histories, 89 Gloucefter in 1 147, in which year he alfo died. They extend from 1066 to 1232, and are in Gale's " Hift. Anglic. Scriptores quinque," pp. 1-2 1. 1 245 . " Annales Buelliani," from 420 to 1 245 are in vol. ii. of O'Conor's " Scriptores." 1263. "Annales Monajierii Burtonenfts in agro Staffordienji" from 1004 to 1263. Up to the commencement of Richard the Firft's reign, this book gives about as much information as might be comprifed in a couple of pages, but thenceforward it is very full. It is in Fulman's "RerumAnghcarum Scriptores," pp. 246-448. 1270. "Chronica de Mailros" \. e. Melrofe. It extends from 735 to 1270, and is fuppofed to have been commenced by an Abbot of Dun- drainan about 1 157. It is in Fulman's " Re- rum Anglicarum Scriptores," pp. 135-244, and, printed for the Bannatyne Club, 4to. Edinb. 1835. 1273. "Liber de antiquis Legihus." This work (which is preferved in the office of the Town Clerk of London) contains a valuable chronicle from 1 188 to 1273. It is defcribed by Rev*". Jof. Hunter in the App. to the Report 9° Appendix of of the Record Commiffion, publ. in 1837. There are dfo copies in the Harleian coUeftion, (690,) and, a recent one, in the State Paper Office. 1 291. " Annales Waverleienfes." Waverly was a Ciftercian Monaftery in Surrey, and was founded in 1 128 by WiUiam Giifard, Bifliop of Win- chefter. The annals are from I066 to 1291, and are printed pp. 129-243 of Gale's " Hif- toriae Anglicanas Scriptores quinque." 13 1 2. A fhort metrical "Chronicle of England" confifting of 1036 lines, from Brute to 13 12, is printed pp. 270-313, vol. ii. of Ritfon's " Ancient Engleifh metrical romancees," 8vo. Lond. 180a. 13 16. " Chronicon Mannia et Injularum," from I o 1 5 . The original hiftory flops at 1266, but is continued in a few lines to 13 16. Part, viz. from 1066, is printed in Camden's " Bri- tannia," fol. Lond. 1607, pp. 840-846, and, with copious notes, pp. 209-244, vol. iii. of " Scriptores Rerum Danicarum medii aevi, ed. Jac. Langebek," fol. Copenh. 1774. It was publ. complete from the original MS. in the Brit. Muf. by the Rev". James Johnftone, A. M. 4to. Copenh. 1786, under the title of Anonymous Histories. 91 " Antiquitates Celto-Normannicae," containing ■befides, extra6ts from the Annals of Ulfter, and Sir J. Ware's Antiquities of Ireland, Bri- tilh topography by Ptolemy, Richard of Ciren- cefter, the Geographer of Ravenna, and An- drew, Bifliop of Caithnefs, and catalogues of the Pidtifh and Scottifh Kings. 1346. " Hijioria de geftis Regum Britannorum et Anglorum a Caffibellano ad an. 20 Ed. 3. (1346) fer quendam canonicum de Lanercoft in comitatu Cumbria." Printed by the Maitland Club, 4to. Edinb. 1839. 1348. " Vitae Edwardi II. et III. a monacho quo- dam Malmejburienji," from 1307, are printed pp. 95-250 of Trokelowe's " Annales," q. v. 13-76-1377. A tranfcript of " An hiftoricall relation of certain pajages about the end of King Edward III. and of his death," from Harl. MS. 6217, communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by Th. Amyot, efq. is printed pp. 212-284, vol. xxii. of the " Archasologia," 4to. Lond. 1829. It is fuppofed to be a tranflation of part of a Latin chronicle written by a Monk of St. Alban's. 1377- 1399. " Hijioria vitae et regni Ricardi II. 92 Appendix of a monacho quodam de Evejham conftgnata." Edited by Th. Hearne, 8vo. Oxf. 1729. 141 5, " Gejia R. Henrici V" The author was a prieft who accompanied the expedition into France, and was prefent at the battle of Agin- court. His work is in Cotton. MS. Julius, E. iv. and Sloane MS. 1776, and a tranflation of that part which contains the account of the in- vafion of France, from Auguft 7 th, the day the King left England, to Nov. 23 rd, the day of his return to London, is printed in Sir H. Nicolas' " Hiftory of the Battle of Agincourt," pp. 183-300, 8vo. Lond. 1832. 1 43 1. '■'■ Chronicon Godftovianum" (from the Crea- tion) fo named by Hearne becaufe he met with it at the ruins of Godftowe Nunnery, near Oxford, in 1715. The beginning and end are imperfeft. It is printed with Roper's Life of Sir. Th. More, pp. 180-246. 8vo. Oxford, 17 16. 1460. '■^ Extract a e variis Cronicis Scocie ;" from Fergus. Printed for the Abbotsford Club, from the MS. in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, edited by W. B. Turnbull, 4to. Edinb. 1842. 1 460. " Ane addicioun ofScottis Corniklis and deidis" Anonymous Histories. 93 from 1436. Privately printed by Thomas Thomfon, efq. from a MS. In the Auchinleck library, 4to. n. p. (1818 ?) The firft part of the volume (which altogether confifts of 60 pages) is a verbatim tranfcript of the MS. , which is very irregularly and confufedly written j the fecond, entitled "Afliort Chronicle of the reign of James II. King of Scots" is the preceding traft correfted, a little altered, and arranged in the order of time. 146 1-1470. " A fragment of an old Englifh Chronicle of the affairs of King Edward 4/A," is printed pp. 283-306 in Hearne's Appendix to Sprotfs " Chronica," q. v. 1470. " Scala Mundi" from the Creation to 1470, with a chronology to 16 19, is in Lambeth Library, No. 22, Trin. Coll. Camb. R. iv. 12, Heralds' Coll. 5, and to 1450, Corp. Chr. Coll. Camb. 194. 1483. " "The Chronicle of London" from 11 89. With an Appendix containing poems by Lydgate, &c., edited by Sir H. Nicolas, 4to. Lond. 1827. This ed. was printed from the Har- lelan MS. 565, and Cotton. Julius, B. i.j a third copy, Harl. MS. 3775, which flops at Henry VI., and another in St. John's Coll. Oxford (57)j were not collated. 94 Appendix of Anonymous Histories. 1 596. " 'The hiftorie and life of King James the Sext ; being an account of the affairs of Scotland from the year 1566 to the year 1596, with a fhort con- tinuation to the year 16 1 7." Printed for the Bannatyne Club, from a MS. in the library of the Marquis of Lothian at Newbattle Abbey, and edited by Th. Thomfon, efq. 4to. Edinb. 1825. " Fragmentum de Gulielmo conqueflore" is in Camden's " Anglica, Normannica, &c. a vete- ribus fcripta," pp. 1^-2 S- Some fhort chronicles of the Pidtifh and Scottifli Kings, from a MS. in the Royal Lib. of Paris, from the Regifter of St. Andrews, and from a MS. in the Scotch College at Paris, are printed in the Appendix to vol. ii, of Innes' " EfTay on the ancient inhabitants of Scotland," pp. 768-819. 8vo. Lond. 1729. " Chronicon SanSiifani Neoti" fee Affer. The Chronicle of St. Alban's, fee Caxton. ADDENDA. ENNIUS and GILDAS. An 8vo. edition, containing the text adopted by Mr. Stevenfon, with a tranflation into German of his preface and notes, by San-Marte (A. Schulz), who has alfo prefixed a preface of his own, has been pubhfhed at Berlin in the prefent year. ILLIAMofMalmefbury. A great part of the firft three books of the " Gefta Regum Anglorum" is printed in Jerome Commeline's "Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores" (pp. 281-348), as a continuation to Bede, under the title of " De geftis Anglorum libri tres, incerto auclore." " The three laft chapters in Commelin's volume are not, however to be found in any copy of Malmefbury at prefent extant."* Mr. Hardy's Introduftion to his edition, p. xx. 96 Addenda. fRDERICUS VITALIS. A tranfla- tion into French, by M. Louis Dubois, was publiflied at Paris in 1825-7, in four vols. 8vo., being vols. 25-28 of " Colledbion des Memoires," by M. Guizot. lOGER de HOVEDEN. An extrad, " de rebus geftis Henrici Leonis Sax- oniae Ducis, et filii ejus Ottonis IV. imperatoris," is printed pp. 876-880, vol. i. of Leibnitz' " Scriptores rerum Brunfvicen- fium," fol. Hanov. 1707. ICHOLAS TRIVET. There are fome extrafts from his book, " Les gejies des Apoftoiles, Empereurs, e Rots" in James MS. 19 in the Bodleian. OHN of Peterborough. The author- fhip of the hiftory which goes under this name is uncertain. Biihop Patrick in his Appendix to Symon Gunton's " Hifliory of the Church of Peterborough" (fol. Lond. 1686, p. 312), claims it for Abbot John de Caleto, who died in 1262, but Sparke, in his pre- Addenda. 97 face, doubts this, and would rather afcribe it to Abbot John Deeping, who died in 1439. There was no John, Abbot of Peterborough in 1340, at which year Pits, Voffius, &c. erroneoufly affert that he flourifhed. ALTER of Gifburne, The compiler finds that he has made two hiftorians out of one, by dividing Walter Hem- mingford, and Walter of Gifburne, who are identical. The original fource of his error has efcaped his memory, and the only place where he can at prefent difcover the fame miftake, is in Jofcelin's Catalogue of Hiftorians, where thefe two are given as diftindt writers. INDEX. INDEX I. HISTORIANS. |ILRED, fee Ealred. Alban (Roger), 56. Alexander of Efle- by, 23. Alured, 10. Affer, 6. Baker (Geoffrey), 34., 38. Baldoc (Biftiop Ralph), 33. Bale (Robert), 56. Barbour (John), 45, 61. Baffet (Peter), 53. Bede, 4, 88,* 95. Bellenden (John), 68, note. Benedift of Peterborough, 16. Bever (John), fee Cajlor. Boethius (Heftor), 25, 68, 77. Bollock (John), fee Whetham- ftede. Botoner (William), 59. Bower (Walter), 39, 54. Brompton (John), 16. Brunne (Robert de), 31, 36. Buchanan (George), 79. Byrchington (Stephen), 48. Campbell (John), 25. Campion (Edmund), 50, 78. Cantilupe (Nicholas), 55. Capgrave (John)j 14, 58. Caradoc, 13. Caftor(John), 30, 53. Caxton (William), 39, 41, 61. Chambers (David), 84. Clynn (John), 37. Colman, 17. Cooper (Bilhop Thomas), 70, note. Cotton (Bartholomew), 29. Diceto (Ralph de), 19. Eadmer, 9. Ealred, 14. Eiton (Stephen), 33. Elias of Evelham, 27. Elias of Trickingham, 27, 28. Elmham (Thomas de), 5 1 . Elphinftone (Bifhop William), 64, 68. Ethelwerd, 7. Everifden (John), 36. Fabian (Robert), 64. Ferrars (George), 16. Fiber (John), fee Cajlor. * This mark affixed to a number, Signifies that the name occurs twice on that page in different articles. 102 Indix I. Fkdbury (Philip), 65. Florence of Worcefter, 9, 42. Fordun (John), 39, 54, 65. Foxe (John), 8 1 . Frumentarius (John), fee Whet- hamftede. Geoffrey of Monmouth, 4, 12. Gerard of Cornwall, 86. Gervafe of Canterbury,'^! 8, 34. Gervafe of Tilbury, 22. Gildas, I, 3, 47,95. Giraldus Cambrenfis, 23, 77. Gower (John), 48. Grace (James), 69. Grafton (Richard), 56, 57, 71, 72, 75, 76, 83. Hall (Edward), 53, 66, 71. Harding (John), 17, 56, 66. Harpsfeld (Nicholas), 79, 80. Harrifon (William), 69, 77. Hafilwood (Thomas), 43. Hemmingford (Walter), 37, 43, 91- Henham (Peter), 25. Henry of Huntingdon, 12. Henry of Marlborough, 50, dd, 78. Henry the Minftrel, 46, 60. Herd (John), 83. Higden (Ralph), 36, 39, 46, 50, 62, 86. Holinlhed (Raphael), 23, 50, 66, 69, 76, 78, 83, 86. Hoveden(Roger de), 1 8, 22,96. Ickham (Peter), 28. Ingulph, 8. John of Hexham, 10, 13, 15. John of London, 33. John of Oxford, 17. John of Peterborough, 4, 37,96. John of Tynemouth, 42. Kelton (Arthur), 7 1 . Knighton (Henry), 45. Knox (John), 75. Langden (John), 54. Langtoft (Peter), 30, 36. Lanquet (Thomas), 70. Leflie (Bilhop John), 85. Lhoyd (Humphrey), 13, 74. Lily (George), 73. Lindfay (Robert), 74. Little (William), 19. Lynge (Jeffrey), 45. Major (John), 60, 72. Mannyng (Robert), fee Brunne. Marianus Scotus, 6, 22. Marjoribanks (George), 84. Matthew of Weftminfter, 9, 25, 42. Merimuth (Adam), 35, 43- Mery lynch (John de), 52. Montacute (Nicholas), 58. Moore (Sir Thomas de la), 34, 38. More (Sir Thomas), 66, 6-], 92. Nennius, 2, 3, 47, 95. Niger (Ralph), 2 1 . Otterbourne (Thomas), 51,57. Oxenedes (John de), 29. Packington (William), 44. Paris (Matthew), 2 5, 26, 3 1 , 3 2 . Patten (William), 8 3 . Pembrige(Chriftopher), 50 note, 66. Pike (John), 20. Proftor (John), 73. Radburn (Thomas), fee Rud- burn. Ralph of Coggefhal, 21, 24. Raftell (John), 67. Index I. lOJ Regan (Maurice), 15. Richard the Canon, 15, 17. Richard of Chichefter, i. e. "I Richard of Cirencefter, 2, 16, > 46,91. J Richard of Devizes, 15, 47, Richard of Hexham, 13. Rilhanger (William), 26, 31. Robert of Avefbury, 38. Robert of Bofton, 37. Robert of Gloucefter, 29. Roger of Chefter, 36, 39, 49. Roger of Wendover, 20, 24, 26, 27, Rofs (John), 44, 63. Rudburn (Thomas), fenior, 55. Rudbum (Thomas), junior, 61, 86. Shepefheved (William), 33. Silegrave (Henry de), 28. Simeon of Durham, 10, 15. Sprott (Thomas), 29, 93. Stafford (John), 44. Taxter (John de), 27. Tigernach, 7. Trevifa, (John de), 41, 46. Trivet (Nicholas), 34, 43, 96. Trokelowe (John de), 35, 91. Turgot, 8. Tyfilio, 3, 12. Vinefauf (Geoffrey de), 18.* Vitalis (Ordericus), 11, 96. Wallingford (John), 20. Walfingham (Thomas), 31, 32, 54- Walter of Coventry, 9, 2 1 . Walter of Gifbume, 44, 97. Warkworth (John), 63. Whethamftede (John), 51, 57. Wikes (Thomas), 30. William of Malmelbury, 10, William of Newbury, fee Little. William of Worcefter, fee Boto- ner, Wyntown (Andrew), 49. Yckham (Peter), fee Ickham. INDEX II. PERSONS INCIDENTALLY MENTIONED. CHERY (Luc 35- n Aikman (James), 80. Albany (Rob. Duke of;, 49. Alexander VI. (Pope), 64. Alexander I. of Scotland, 9. Alexander III. of Scotland, 25. Alfred (King), 5, 6, 14. Ames (Jofeph), 62. Amyot (Thomas), 9 1 . Anderfon (William), 49, 69. Andrew, Bp. of Caithnefs, 9 1 . Anfelm (S.), 9. Arthur (King), 3. Afcenfms (Badius), 12, 68, 72. Auguftine of Canterbury, 1 6, 3 5. Ayfcough (Rev. Sam.), 38, 87. Baker (Sir R.), 17, 25. Bale (Bifhop John), 2, 3, 10, >3. '6, 31, 39, 43, 58. Bale (Robert), junior, 56. Baflet (John), 53. Becket (S. Thomas a), 21. Berthelet (Thomas), 70, 7 1 . Bertram (Charles Jul.), 2, 47. Binnemann (Henry), 54. Blaneforde (Henry de), 36. Blifs (Rev. Dr. Ph.), 73. Bolland (John), 14. Bolton (Edwrard), 35. Bond (William), 80. Bongars (Jac), 18. Bonham (W.), 64. Bofton (John), 35. Boteville (Francis), fee Thin. Bright (Timothy), 83. Brochwel, 3. Bronchorftius (John), 5. Brooke (Sir Wm.), 77. Bruce (James), 45. Bruce (Rob.), K. of Scotl., 46. Brute, 16, 20, 22, 29, 30, 31, 33»4S. 5I' 57. 61, 68, 71, 84, 90. Buchanan (David), 75. Buckingham (Duke of), 40. Burdett (Thomas), 76. Burgundy (Margaret, Duchefs of), 61. Burmann (Peter), 80. Butler (Rev. Rich.), 70. Cadwallader, 20, 31, 74. Caefar (Julius), 6, 12, 49, 88. Calenius (Walter), 12. Caleto (John de), 96. Caley (Arthur), 67. Caley (Robert), 73. Camden (William), 6, 23, 34, 50, 55, 66, 90, 94. Index II. [05 Cantilupe (Lord), 55. Carew (George), Earl of Tot- nefs, 15. CalTibelan, 9 1 . Catherine of Arragon, Queen of England, 79. Cattley (Rev. S. R.), 82. Cave (William), 3, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19. Cawood (John), 66. Cecrops, 68, 85. Chalmers (Alexander), 72, 75, 77- Charles VIII. of France, 67. Charles IV. of Germany, 49. Cheney (Bp. Rich.), 78. Chifflet (P. F.), 5. Clodovic of France, 22. Commeline (Jerome), 5, 12, 19, 95- Cooper (C. P.), 57. Coxe (Rev. Hen. Ofl:.), 24, 26, 42. Cranmer (Edmund), 80. Crawfurd (Matthew), 75. Crowley (Robert), 7 1 . Dalyell (John G.), 74, 83, 84. David I. of Scotland, 1 4. Davidfon (Thomas), 69. Daye (John), 2, 55, 82. Deeping (John), 97. Dempfter (Thomas), 1 , 60. Denham (Henry), 1 3, 76. D'Ewes (Sir S.), 30, 53. Dibdin (Rev. Th. F.), 62, 64, 67. 77- Dinoch, 35. Dodechin, 7. Domate (Grem), 65. Douce (Francis), i, 82. Drummond (James), 65. Drummond (Wm.), of Haw- thornden, 65. Dubois (Louis), 96. Du Chefne (Andrew), 6, 1 1 , 22, 88. Dugdale(SirWm.), 13, 14, 23. Dumfermline (Earl of), fee Se- ton. Durand (Urfine), 24. Edmund Ironfide, 22. Edward the ConfelTor, 14. Edward the Firft, 31,* 32, 33, 35. 37. 52- Edward the Second, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 52, 91. Edward the Third, 36, 37, 38,* 40, 43,* 44, 56, 9i.t Edward the Fourth, 44, 51, 56, 61, 62, 63, 84, 93. Edward the Fifth, 66, 84. Edward the Black Prince, 43, 44.45- Egbert, 73. Eggefteyn (Henry), 4. Elizabeth (Queen), 76, 77, 8 1 .* EUis (Sir Henry), 57, 64, 71. Erafmus, 66. Ethelwulph, 14. Eufebius, 4. Fairfax (Sir Thomas), 64. Faftolf (Sir John), 59. Fergus, King of Scotland, 79, 92. Ferrerius (John), 68. Fitzgerald (Gerald), Earl of Kil- dare, 65. Francus, 67. Francus II. of France, 67. Freebairn (Robert), 60. Fuller (Thomas), 44. \ This mark affixed to a number, fignifies that the name occurs three times on that page in different articles. io6 Index II. Fulman (William), 8, 89.* Gale (Thomas), 2, 3, 6, 15, 17, 18, 20,* 30, 37, 39, 41, 89, 90. Garden (John), 68. Gathelus, 68, 85. Gibbons (Richard), 8 1 . Gibfon (Bp. Edmund), 88. GifFard (Bp. William), 90. GDes (Rev. Dr. J. A.), 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 16, 47. Gloucefter (Rob. Earl of), 88. Goodall (Walter), 39, 54. Gordon (Patrick), 46. Grace (Sheffield), 69. Gregory the Great (Pope), 19, 39- Gruter (J.), 69, 73. Guizot (F.), 96. Gunn (Rev. W.), 3. Gunton (Symon), 96. Gurney (Mifs), 88. Guy, Earl of Warwick, 63, 86. Habington (Thomas), 2. Haenel (Guftavus), 40, 41, 65. Hall (Antony), 35, 43. Halliwell (James O.), 32, 59, 63- Hanmer (Meredith), 50, 78. Hardy (Th. Duffus), 10,95. Harley (Edward), Earl of Ox- ford, 21. Harold, 14. Harpsfeld (John), 81. Harris (Walter), 15, 38, 50. Hatcher (Henry), 47. Hawthornden (Lady), 65. Hearne (Thomas), 10, 16, 19, 21, 22, 29,* 30,* 31, 35,37, 38, 39»43. 5I'* S^> 53.54. 57. 59. 63. 86, 92,* 93. Heftor, 67. Hengift, 25, 38. Henry the Second, 14, 16, 18, 21, 22. Henry the Third, 21, 28. Henry the Fourth, 48, 7 1 . Henry the Fifth, 51,53,55,57. 92. Henry the Sixth, 53, 55, 56,93. Henry the Seventh, 84. Henry the Eighth, 57, 71, 75. 79- Henry III. of France, 85. Henry V. of Germany, 1 4. Henry the Lion, Duke of Sax- ony, 96. Herbert (William), 62. Hog (T.), 35. Hooker (John), 23, 77. Huillard-BrehoUes (A.), 26. Hunter (Rev. Jos.), 89. Hurft (Rev. Wm.), 5. Hyde (Edward), Earl of Claren- don, 38. James L of Scotland, 54, 68, 86. James II. of Scotland, 93. James III. of Scotland, 68. James V. of Scotland, 68, 80. James VI. of Scotland, 79, 94. Jamiefon (Rev. Dr.), 46, 60, 6 1 . Jebb (Samuel), 85. Ingram (Rev. Dr. J.), 88. Innes (Thomas), 65, 94. Innocent VIII. (Pope), 67. John (King), 20, 22, 23, 24. Johnftone (Rev. James), 47, 87, 90. Jofephus, 24. Jofleline (John), 2, 97. Jovius (Paul), 74. Irving (Dr. David), 68. Keith (Bp.), 64. Kennet (Bp. White), 66. Kildare (Earl of), fee Filzge- Index II. 107 Kingftan (John), 64, 76. Kyteler (Dame Alice), 52. Langebek (J.), go. Langton (John), 54, Laurendus (Renatus), 5. Layton (Dr. Rich.), 27. Ledrede (Bp. Rich, le), 52. Leew (Gerard de), 62. Legh (Dr. Th.) 27. Leibnitz (G. W.), 22, 96. Lekprevik (Robert), 60. Leland (John), 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10,* II, 12,* 14, 16, 17, 19,* 21, 26, 30. 33. 35' 41. 42,45, 58, 61,63,64. Le Neve (John), 23. Lewellin, 74, Lewis (Rev. John), 62. Lothian (Marquis of), 94. Lowndes (Wm. Th.), 82. Luynes (Due de), 26. Lydgate (John), 93. Mc. Gavin (William), 75. Machlinia (William), 62. Mackeiizie (George), 72. Mac-Murrough, King of Lein- fter, 15. Macpherfon (David), 49. Maitland (— ), 6g. Malcolm III. of Scotland, 8. Man (James), 79. Margaret of France, Queen of England, 33. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 8. Marjoribanks (Michael), 84. Martene (D. E.), 24. Mary I. of England (Queen), 76,81. Mary of Scotland (Queen), 80, 84, 85, 86. Maferes (Baron Fr.), 1 1 . Maximilian I. of Germany, 67. Methodius, 24. Montfort (Simon de). Earl of Leicefter, 32. Montgomery (Roger), Earl of Shrewfbury, 1 1 . Moore (Bp. John), 58. More (Sir John), 66. Mofes, 39. Murray (James, Earl of), 80. Newberie (Ralph), 1 3. Newcourt (Richard), 73, 83. Nicolas (Sir Harris), 51,92,93. Nicolfon (Bp. William), 25, 26, 34, 41,43, 55, 56, 62, 85. Notary (Julian), 62. No well (Alexander), 77. 0'Conor(Rev. Dr. Ch.), 7, 1 5, 87, 89. Odelinus, 1 1 . OiFa, I. and IL Kings of Mer- cia, 26. Ormond (James, Earl of), 37. Otho IV. of Germany, 22, 96. Outlawe (William), 52. Owen (Robert), 4, 13. Pantaleon (Henry), 82. Parker (Archbp. Matthew), 6, 26, 54, 55, 81. Patrick (Bp. Symon), 96. Pecock (Bp. Reginald), 82. Pegge (Dr. Samuel), 27. Peter (8.), 49, 67. Peter of Blois. 8. Petrie (Henry), 2. Philip Auguftus of France, 22. Phillipps (Sir Thomas), 41. Picard (John), 19. Pinkerton (John), 46. Piftorius (J.) 7. Pits (John), 3, 10,* 16, 17, 30, 31. 39'4».43. 54. 58/61, 97- Polonus (Martm), 52, io8 Index II. Poftumus (Silvius), 67. Powel (David), 13. Prevoft (Auguftus le), 1 1 . Proftor (John), 73. Ptolemy, 91. Pynfon (Richard), 62, 64. Rabanus Maurus, 2. Raftall (William), 64. Raynes (John), 64. Richard the Firft, 16,* 17, 18, 89. Richard the Second, 34,43,48, 63,9'- Richard the Third, 66, 84. Ritfon (Jofeph), 1, 90. Robert, Duke of Normandy, 6 8 . Robert de Monte, 20. Roberts (Rev. Peter), 4. Rochfort (Sir John), 42. Rollo, II, 55, 68. Roper (William), 92. Ruddiman (Thomas), 80. Savile (Sir Henry), 7, 8, 11, 1 2, 18. Schulz (A.), 95. Selden (John), 9, 13, 41, 52. Seres (William), 71. Seton (Charles), Earl of Dum- fermline, 65. Seymour (Edward), Duke of Somerfet, 83. Seymour (Rev. M. H.), 83. Sharpe (Rev. John), 1 1. Sheares (W.), 66. Short (Peter), 82. Sinclair (Bp. Henry), 85. Smith (John), 5. Sotheby (Leigh), 79. Sparke (Jofeph), 37, 96. Speed (John), 66. Spelman (Sir Henry), 35. Spenfer (Edmund), 78. Spenfer (Bp. Henry le), 58. Stanyhurft (Richard), jj. Stapleton (J.), 5. Stephen (King), 12, 14, 16, 35, 88.* Stevens (Capt. John), 5. Stevenfon (Jofeph), 2, 3, 5, 16, 95- Stewart (Sir David), 54. Stowe (John), 33, 66, 76, 78. Struvius (B. G.), 7. Stukeley (Rev. Dr. Wm.), 46, 48. Sulgrave (Henry de), 28. Surius (Laurentius), 1 4. Swafham ( — ), i6. Tanner (Bp. Thomas), i, 2, 3, H' 23. 31. 39' 52' S4» 58' 71,83. Thin (Francis), 78, 83, 86. Thompfon (Aaron), 12. Thomfon (Thomas), 86, 93, 94. Tottyl (Richard), 66, 76. Townfend (Rev. George), 82. Treveris (Peter), 42. Trivet (Sir Thomas), 34. TurnbuU (W. B. D. D.), 92. Twyfden (Roger), 10, 13, 14,* 17, 18, 19, 20, 45. Vergil (Polydore), 2. Umfraville (Sir Robert), 56. Voihus (Ger. J.), 3, 10, 16,97. Vowell (John), fee Hooker. Urban VI. (Pope), 49. Ulher (Archbp. James), 41. Wallace (Sir William), 60. Waly (John), 66. Ware (Sir James), 23, 38, 50, 78,91. Wats (Dr. Wm.), 26, 32. Watt (Dr. Robert), 82. Waynflete (Bp. Wm.), 59. Index II. 109 Weever (John), 43. Wharton (Rev. Henry), 28, 41, 42, 48, 49, 58, 88. Wheloc (Abraham), 5, 88. WiclifFe (John), 82. William the Firft, 8,21, 26, 68, 94. William the Third, 66. Wife (Rev. Francis), 6. Wolfe (Reynold), 26. Wood (Antony a), 59, 73. Worde (Wynkyn de), 14, 41, 62. Wright (Thomas), 53. Wyat (Sir Thomas), 73. Wynne (W.), 13. -i^