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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
 
 WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY: 
 
 STATING 
 
 THE NATURE OF THEIR PRINCIPAL CONTENTS, 
 
 THE PERIODS OF TIME TO WHICH THEY RELATE, 
 
 THE DATES OF THEIR COMPOSITION, 
 
 THEIR MANUSCRIPT SOURCES, AUTHORS, AND EDITORS. 
 
 ACCOMPANIED BY 
 
 A CLASSIFIED ARRANGEMENT AND AN INDEX, 
 
 AND BY SOME ILLUSTRATIVE PARTICULARS THAT HAVE ARISEN SINCE 
 THEIR PUBLICATION. 
 
 BY JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, F.S.A. 
 
 WESTMINSTER: 
 PRINTED BY AND FOR J. B. NICHOLS AND SONS. 
 
 1862. 
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 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. 
 
THE CAMDEN SOCIETY 
 
 Was founded in the year 1838. It was suggested 
 by the success attendant on the Surtees Society, 
 which had been formed a few years before, to honour 
 the memory • of the much-esteemed Historian of 
 Durham, by the publication of documents illus- 
 trating the history of the North of England. The 
 annual subscription to the Surtees Society was Two 
 Guineas.* That to the Camden Society, which took 
 a wider scope, and looked for more general support, 
 was limited to One Pound. In the original pro- 
 spectus its objects were announced to be, " to per- 
 petuate, and render accessible, whatever is valuable, 
 but at present little known, amongst the materials 
 for the Civil, Ecclesiastical, or Literary History of 
 the United Kingdom." William Camden, the 
 Elizabethan historian, and the topographer of his 
 native " Britannia," was chosen for its presiding 
 genius. 
 
 By the popularity of this plan, and by the influ- 
 ential advocacy of several powerful friends (among 
 whom the late Mr. Amyot, Treas. S.A., the late 
 Rev. Dr. Bliss, of Oxford, and Mr. Purton Cooper, 
 
 * Since altered, in 1850, to One Guinea; on which footing the 
 Surtees Society is still well supported, and usefully employed. 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 Q.C, were especially active,) the Camden Society 
 rapidly atchieved a triumph beyond the hopes of 
 its projectors. Of its first book, 500 copies having 
 been taken, a second impression was shortly re- 
 quired ; and a thousand copies were printed of the 
 other works of the year. By the anniversary in 
 1839 the members were beginning to exceed the 
 copies thus provided, and it was then determined 
 to admit 1,200 Members, and to limit the Society 
 to that maximum. This large number also was 
 quickly attained, and there was besides a book of 
 Candidates waiting for future vacancies. 
 
 The number printed of the Society's works con 
 tinned to be 1,250 from No. V. to No. XLII. inclusive. 
 It was afterwards reduced to 1,000, and subsequently 
 to 760 and 600 — so that the latter works of the 
 Society are far less abundant than the preceding, 
 and wUl hereafter be proportionately in greater 
 request for the completion of sets. 
 
 The popularity of the Camden Society led the 
 way to the formation of the ^Ifric, the Shakespeare, 
 the Percy, the Parker, and several other Printing 
 Societies, which it has now for many years survived. 
 It possesses some guarantee for stability in a funded 
 investment of more than £1,000 Three per Cent. 
 Consols, derived from the Compositions paid in 
 lieu of Annual Subscriptions. 
 
 It has now completed the number of eighty 
 volumes : some of them comprising two distinct 
 articles, and the four volumes of the Camden Mis- 
 
PREFACE. V 
 
 cellany containing several.* Their character is so 
 varied that the present descriptive account of them 
 will be useful even to those who possess the series, 
 as well as to the literary world at large. At the 
 close of these remarks, I have attempted to form 
 such a classified list of the whole as will convey a 
 just idea of the value of the literature which the 
 Camden Society has been the means of producing. 
 It will, however, be readily perceived that some of 
 the works might be placed under more than one 
 class. 
 
 I may further remark that, during the career of 
 this Society, several extraneous circumstances have 
 arisen to influence the direction which its opera- 
 tions should take. The formation of the Percy and 
 Shakespeare Societies, already mentioned, for a 
 time withdrew from its attention certain classes of 
 poetical and dramatic literature ; and more recently 
 the production, upon a wide and comprehensive 
 scale, of historical works under the direction of the 
 Master of the Rolls, has rendered it no longer 
 necessary for the Camden Society to make inade- 
 
 * There are in two volumes (25 & 54,) (29 & 36), (59 & 62) 3 works. 
 
 ,, in one volume .... 
 
 Volumes containing two articles (3, 8, 14, 15) 
 The Camden Miscellany, vol. I. 
 
 II. 
 
 '■ — III. 
 
 ■ IV. 
 
 66 
 8 
 6 
 6 
 5 
 6 
 
 100 
 
VI PREFACE. 
 
 quate attempts in a path for which its means are 
 but little calculated. * Upon this subj ect the Council 
 issued the following observations in their Report of 
 the year 1858 : — 
 
 " In closing their Report, the Council beg to con- 
 gratulate the Society on the important steps now 
 taking by the Master of the Rolls (with the sanction 
 of the Government) for the promotion of English 
 Historical Literature, by the publication of Calen- 
 dars of our State Papers and editions of our Early 
 Chronicles. When this Society was instituted, all 
 publication of historical materials at the expense of 
 Government had been suspended. Nor was there 
 any other channel open by which such valuable 
 books as the Domesday of St. Paul's, and many 
 others of this Society's works, could be made 
 known. If the labours of this Society — imperfect 
 substitute as they may have been — have partially 
 supplied the void, or led the way to a state of things 
 more creditable to us as a people conscious of the 
 benefit of sound historical literature, the fact is one 
 of which the Society may feel proud. Whilst those 
 publications are in progress some portion of the 
 original design of the Society will probably fall into 
 partial abeyance. Such books as the Chronicles of 
 Joscelin de Brakelond, Rishanger, and Peterborough, 
 with the others before mentioned, will now find 
 
 * I have noticed, at pp. 3, 43, 55, three instances in which the 
 gentlemen employed under the direction of the Master of the Rolls 
 liavi! already followed in the steps of the Camden Society. 
 
PREFACE. VU 
 
 other channels of publication. But this is not a 
 circumstance which will be in any degree detri- 
 mental to the Society. On the contrary, the limi- 
 tation of our operations to Documents, Letters, 
 Diaries, Poems, and other works not contemplated 
 by the Master of the E-oUs, will probably tend 
 to advance the interest and popularity of the 
 Society's publications, and will justify the Council 
 in printing historical illustrations of a more recent 
 date." 
 
 The editorial work of the Camden Society has 
 been spontaneously undertaken by a succession of 
 gentlemen and ladies, of all ranks and professions 
 (including the late President, Lord Braybrooke,) 
 now amounting to nearly fifty in number, whose 
 labours, generally performed with as much industry 
 and judgment as zeal, have throughout been gra- 
 tuitous—except that copies of their works* have 
 always been allotted to them. 
 
 The order of the publication of the Books, cor- 
 responding with the numbers of this Catalogue, is 
 denoted on the back of each titlepage (except in a 
 few of the early volumes). 
 
 New Members of the Society are admitted, with- 
 out entrance-fee, at the monthly meetings of the 
 Council. 
 
 The Books are not sold singly, but are delivered 
 for each year's Subscription, and to Members only. 
 
 * The number usually presented to Editors is twenty-five; and 
 ten to the contributors of Manuscripts. 
 
VIU PREFACE. 
 
 Arrangements, however, have been recently made 
 by the Council, whereby those who are desirous to 
 complete imperfect sets of Books may do so on 
 favourable terms. 
 
 John Goren Nichols. 
 
 25, Parliament Street, 
 Westminster. 
 
 Preparing for Publication. 
 
 A DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS 
 OF THE ROXBURGHE CLUB. 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CA.TALOGUE OF THE WORKS 
 OF THE SURTEES SOCIETY. 
 
CLASSIFICATION OF WORKS. 
 
 Political Treatises. 
 
 L. Gualteri Mapes de Nugis Curialium, &c. (ISth Century.) 
 LV. 3. Cholmley's Request and Suite of a True-hearted English- 
 man, 1553. 
 LXI. 3. A Relation of some Abuses against the Commonwealth, 
 
 1629. 
 XLV. Sir Roger Twysden's Considerations on the Government 
 of England. (17th Cent.) 
 
 General Chronicles and Histories. 
 
 XXXVI. Polydore Vergil's English History, prior to the Norman 
 
 Conquest. 
 XXXIV. De Antiquis Legibus Liber: a London Chronicle from 
 
 1178 to 1274. 
 XXVIII. The French Chronicle of London, from 44 Hen. HI. to 
 
 17 Edw. III. 
 XL VII. Chronicon Petroburgense, from 1122 to 1294. 
 XXXIX. 1. Register and Chronicle of the Abbey of Aberconway, 
 
 from 1170 to Edward I. 
 XV. The Chronicle of William de Rishanger of the Barons' 
 
 Wars. 
 LXIV. Chronicle of the reigns of Richard II., Henry IV., 
 
 Henry V., and Henry VI. 
 XXXIX. 2. Chronicle of the Rebellion in Lincolnshire in 1470. 
 X. Warkworth's Chronicle of the first Thirteen years of 
 
 King Edward IV. 
 
CLASSIFICATION OF WORKS. 
 
 I. The Restoration of King Edward IV. in 1471. 
 XXIX. Polydore Vergil's History of the reigns of Henry VI., 
 
 Edward IV., and Eichard III. 
 LXXIII. 1. A London Chronicle during the reigns of Henry VII. 
 
 and Henry VIII. 
 XXXV. The Chronicle of Calais, from 1485 to 1540. 
 LIII. Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London, to the year 1556. 
 XLII. Diary of Henry Machyn, Merchant-taylor of London, 
 
 from 1550 to 1563. 
 XL VII. The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of two years of Queen 
 Mary. 
 
 Elder's Letter on the arrival and marriage of Eng 
 
 _ Philip, 1555. 
 
 VII. Hayward's Annals of the first Four Years of Queen 
 Elizabeth. 
 XXXIX. 4. Sir Thomas Coningsby's Journal of the Siege of 
 
 Eouen in 1591. 
 XXXIX. 5. Fleetwood's Narrative of the Battle of Lutzen and 
 
 Death of Gustavus Adolphus. 
 LXXIV. Symonds's Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army, 
 
 1644—1645-6. 
 XIV. 1. Cuffe's Siege of Ballyally Castle in 1641. 
 
 2. Kelly's Macariee Excidium, or the destruction of 
 
 Cyprus (i.e. Ireland) in 1690. 
 
 Ecclesiastical History. 
 
 LVII. The Anoren Riwle, a semi-Saxon treatise on the Rules 
 
 and Duties of Monastic Life. 
 VIII. 1 . History of the Bishoprick of Somerset, from its founda- 
 tion to 1174. 
 
 2. Charters relating to Ecclesiastical Affairs. 
 
 Xin, Jooeline de Brakelond's Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury 
 
 St. Edmund's, 
 LXIX. The Domesday and other early Rentals of St. Paul's, 
 London. 
 
CLASSIFICATION OF WORKS. 
 
 XV. 2. The Miracles of Simon de Montfort. 
 
 XXIV; Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler for Sorcery 
 
 in 1324. 
 LXV. Report on the estates of the Knights Hospitallers in 
 England in 1338. 
 XXXVin. Documents relative to the Collegiate Church of Middle- 
 ham. 
 Apology for Lollard Doctrines, attributed to Wicliffe. 
 Letters relating to the Suppression of the Monasteries. 
 Narratives of the Days of the Reformation. 
 Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell in^l627-8. 
 
 XX. 
 XXVI. 
 
 Lxxvn, 
 
 LV. 4. 
 
 HisTOEiCAL Documents. 
 
 XLIX. Wills and Inventories from Bury St. Edmund's. 
 LX. Grants, &c. from the Crown temp. Edward y. 
 Speeches of Lord Chancellor Russell for opening Parlia- 
 ment, terpp. Edward V. and Richard III. 
 XXXIX. 3. Bull of Pope Innocent VIII. for the Marriage of Henry VII. 
 with Elizabeth of York. 
 XXI. Rutland Papers, temp. Hen. VII. and Hen. VIH. 
 LXVII. Trevelyan Papers, prior to 1558. 
 
 XII. Egerton Papers, chiefly temp. Eliz. and James I. 
 LXXXI. Debates of the Parliament of 1610. 
 LXXX. Proceedings in the County of Kent in connection with 
 the Parliaments of 1640 and the Committee of Re- 
 ligion. 
 XXXI. Proceedings in the Long Parliament. 
 LXI. 1. Proceedings in the County of Kent, 1642-1646. 
 LV. 4. Trelawny Papers, 1644-1711. 
 LII. Accounts of the Secret-Service Money of Charles II, and 
 James II. from 1679 to 1688. 
 
 EoLLS OF Expenses and Inventories. 
 
 LIX and ■) Household Expenses of Richard de Swinfield, Bishop of 
 LXII. 3 Hereford, 1289-90. 
 
Xll CLASSIFICATION OF WORKS. 
 
 LVI. Expenses of John of Brabant and Henry and Thomas of 
 
 Lancaster, 1292-3. 
 LXI. 4. Inventory of the Duke of Richmond's Goods, 1525 ; and 
 Inventory of the Princess dowager's Wardrobe stuif 
 at Baynard's Castle, 1543. 
 LV. 2. Household Expenses of the Princess Elizabeth at Hat- 
 field, 1551-1552. 
 LXXIII. 2. Expenses of the Judges of Assize riding the Western 
 and Oxford Circuits, temp. Elizabeth, 1596-1601. 
 
 Personal Memoirs and Diaries. 
 
 XL. The Services of William Lord Grey of Wilton, K.G. 
 XIX. Diary of Dr. John Dee. 
 LXX. Liber Famelicus of Sir James Whitelocke. 
 XLL Diary of Walter Tonge, Esq., of Devonshire, 1604-1628. 
 LXVL Diary of John Rous, of Suffolk, 1625-1642. 
 XXXn. Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, K.B. 
 LXXIII. 5. Sir Edward Lake's Account of his Interviews with King 
 
 Charles the First. 
 XXXIX. 6. Diary of Dr. Edward Lake, Archdeacon of Rochester, 
 Tutor to the Princesses Mary and Anne, 1677-8. 
 LV. 6. Autobiography and Anecdotes, by William Taswell, 
 
 Student of Christ Church, 1651-1682. 
 XXII. Diary of Dr. Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, 1686-87. 
 LXVIII. Journal of Doctor Rowland Davies, Dean of Ross, 
 1688-9--1690. 
 
 Letters. 
 
 IV. Plumpton Correspondence: in the reigns of Edward IV., 
 Richard HI., Henry VH., and Henry VHI. 
 LXI. 4. Letters of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Som- 
 erset, natural son of King Henry VIII. 
 
CLASSIFICATION OF WORKS. xiii 
 
 XXIII. Letters of Eminent Literary Men of the Sixteenth, Seven- 
 
 teentli, and Eighteentli Centuries. 
 XXVII. Correspondence of tlie Earl of Leycester, during his 
 
 Government of the Low Countries. 
 XL VI. Letters of Queen Elizabeth and James VL, from 1582 
 
 to 1G02. 
 LXXVIU. Correspondence of James VI. with Sir Robert Cecil and 
 
 others in England. 
 LXXIX. Letters written by John Chamberlain during the reign 
 
 of Elizabeth. 
 LXXVI. Letters of George Lord Carewto SirThomasRoe, 1615-17. 
 LVI. Letters and Papers of the Verney Family, to the end of 
 
 1639. 
 LXIII. Letters of King Charles I. to his Queen Henrietta Maria 
 
 in 1646. 
 LVni. Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley. 
 LXXV. Letters of State written by Milton ; with other Original 
 
 Papers Ulustrative of his Life and Writings. 
 LXXI. Letters of Henry Savile, Esq., and George Marquess of 
 
 HaHfax, 1661—1689. 
 XXXIII. Letters of James Earl of Perth, 1688—1696. 
 LXXIII. 6. Letters of Pope to Atterbury when in the Tower of 
 
 London. 
 
 Travels and Topography. 
 
 XXXVn. A Venetian Relation of England, about 1500. 
 
 LI. Pilgrimage of Sir Richard Guylford to the Holy Land, 
 1506. 
 XVII. Travels of Nicander Nucius in England, temp. Hen. VIH. 
 IX. Norden's Description of Essex, 1594. 
 
 Genealogy and Heraldry, 
 XLIII. Camden's Visitation of Huntingdonshire, 1613. 
 
IV CLASSIFICATION OF WORKS. 
 
 LXXIV. Symonds's Church-Notes taken during the marches of 
 
 the Royal Army, 1644—1645-6. 
 XLIV. The Obituary kept by Richard Smyth, 1627—1674. 
 
 Poetry and Old Literature. 
 
 XVI. The Latin Poetry of Walter Mapes. 
 VI. Political Songs of England, from John to Edw. II. 
 XXVIII. French poem on the Execution of Sir Thomas de Turber- 
 ville, 1295. 
 III. Alliterative Poem on the Deposition of King Richard II. 
 — Ricardi Maydiston de Concordia inter Ric. 11. et 
 Civitatem London. 
 LXXII, The French. Romance of Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of 
 
 Dammartin. 
 XXX. The Thornton Romances, from a MS. circ. 1440. 
 XVIII. Three English Metrical Romances, in the North- 
 western Dialect of Lancashire. 
 LXXni. 4. The Childe of Bristow, a Poem by John Lydgate. 
 LXXIII. 3. The Incredulity of St. Thomas, the Skryveners' Pageant 
 in the Corpus Christi Play at York. 
 II. Kynge Johan, a Play, by Bishop Bale. 
 LXI. 2. Biographical Poems, on the Duke of Norfolk, Viscount 
 Hereford, the Earls of Essex, and Queen Elizabeth. 
 XI. Kemp's Nine Dales Wonder, 1600. 
 V. Anecdotes and Traditions. 
 
 Philology. 
 
 XXV.and")„ . ■ -o i 
 y T-^ > rromptoruim Parvulorum. 
 
 Glossaries : see this entry in the Index. 
 
SOURCES OF THE MANUSCRIPTS PRINTED. 
 
 I. In the British Museum. 
 
 Harleian MSS. 
 
 Restoration of Edward IV, 
 
 Sir Nich. Lestrange's Merry Passages and 
 
 Jests (in Anecdotes and Traditions.) 
 Hayward's Four Years of Elizabeth. 
 Chronicle of Joceline de Brakelond. 
 Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler. 
 Promptorium Parvulorum, 
 The Chronicle of Calais. 
 Register and Chronicle of Aberconway. 
 Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, 
 Grants, etc. from the Crown temp. 
 
 Edward V. 
 Lydgate^s Childe of Bristow, 
 Symonds's Diary. 
 Foxe's unpublished Papers. 
 Parliamentary Debates of 1610. 
 
 Cottonian MSS. 
 
 Rishanger's Chronicle of the Barons' 
 
 Wars. 
 Miracles of Simon de Montfort. 
 Letters on Suppression of the Monasteries. 
 The French Chronicle of London. 
 
 Macbyn's Diary. 
 
 Visitation of Huntingdonshire. 
 
 Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London. 
 
 The Ancren Riwle. 
 
 Speeches of Bishop Russell on opening 
 
 Parliament. 
 A London Chronicle. 
 Maps of Calais and Guisnes. 
 
 Royal MSS. 
 
 Polydore Vergil's History. 
 Inventories of the Duke of Richmond and 
 Katharine Princess Dowager. 
 
 iMnsdowne MSS. 
 Aubrey's Remains of Gentilism and Juda- 
 ism (in Anecdotes and Traditions). 
 
 Additional MSS. 
 Mr. John Collet's Commonplace Book (in 
 
 Anecdotes and Traditions). 
 Obituary of Richard Smyth. 
 Abuses against the Commonwealth. 
 
 II. In Other Public Libraries. 
 
 Piiilic Record Office. 
 
 Expenses of John of Brabant and Henry 
 and Thomas of Lancaster. 
 
 The State Paper Office. 
 Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerk- 
 en well. 
 Letters of Henry Duke of Richmond. 
 Part of the Savile Correspondence. 
 Milton's Letters of State. 
 Letters of George Lord Carew. 
 Letters of John Chamberlain. 
 
 Guildhall, London. 
 Liber de Antiquis Legibus. 
 
 Ths College of Arm^. 
 
 Chronicle of the Rebellion in Lincolnshire. 
 Funeral of William Lord Grey of "Wilton. 
 
 The Society of Antiquaries. 
 Chronicon Petroburgense. 
 
 Bodleian Library. 
 
 Maydistim's Latin Poem on Richard II. 
 Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder. 
 Travels of Nieander Nucius. 
 Mapes de Nugis Curialium. 
 Biographical Poems. 
 
XVI 
 
 SOURCES or THE MANUSCRIPTS PRINTED. 
 
 Ashmolean Museum. 
 Dr. Dee's Diary. 
 
 Public Library at Cambridge, 
 Alliterative Poem on Richard II. 
 
 Corpus Chrisii College, Cambridge. 
 Anecdotes of Archbishop Cranmer. 
 
 St. Peter's College, Cambridge. 
 Warkworth's Chronicle. 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 Catalogue of Dr. Dee's Library. 
 
 Trinity College, Dublin. 
 Wicliffe's Apology for Lollard Doctrines. 
 
 Advocates'' IMtrary, Edinlmrgh. 
 Cholmley's Request and Suite of a True- 
 hearted Englishman, 
 
 Lincoln CathedraX Library. 
 The Thornton Romances. 
 
 St. Paul's Cathedral Chmxh, 
 The Domesday of St. Paul's. 
 
 Registers of Bwry St. Edmwn,d''s. 
 Wills and Inventories. 
 
 The Imperial Library, Paris. 
 Romance of Blonde of Oxford. 
 
 Public Library at Valetta. 
 Extent of the Knights Hospitallers, 
 
 III. In Private Possession. 
 
 The Duke of Devonshire. — Bale's Play of 
 King Johan; and part of the Savile 
 Correspondence. 
 
 The Duke of Rutland. — Rutland Papers. 
 
 The Marquess of Salisbury. — Norden's 
 Description of Essex, and the Secret 
 Correspondence of Sir Robert Cecil 
 with James VI. 
 
 Lord Francis Egerton. — The Egerton 
 Papers. 
 
 Lord Viscount Strangford. — Household 
 Book of the Princess Elizabeth. 
 
 Lady Willoughby d'Eresby. — Letters of 
 the Earl of Perth. 
 
 Lady Frances Vernon Harcourt. — Letters 
 of Lady Brilliana Harley. 
 
 Sir Edvi. C. Dcring, Bart. — MSS. con- 
 nected with the Parliaments of 1640. 
 
 Sir Philip Egerton, Bart. — Letters de- 
 scribing the Battle of Lutzen ; and the 
 Services of Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton. 
 
 Sir John Trelawny, Bart. — The Trelawny 
 Papers. 
 
 Sir Walter Trevelyan, Bart. — The Tre- 
 velyan Papers, 
 
 Sir Han-y Vemey, Bart. — The Verney 
 Papers ; and Proceedings in the Long 
 Parliament. 
 
 Sir Thomas Edw. Wiunington, Bart. — 
 Household Roll of Bishop Swinfield. 
 
 J. I. Blackburne, Esq. — Three Early 
 English Metrical Romances. 
 
 Thomas W. Bramston, Esq. — The Bram- 
 ston Correspondence. 
 
 John Speed Davies, Esq. — An English 
 
 Chronicle of Richard III., &c. 
 Rowland Davies, Esq. — The Journal of 
 
 Dean Davies. 
 George Percy Elliott, Esq. — Diary of Dr. 
 
 Edward Lake ; and Autobiographical 
 
 Anecdotes of Dr. Taswell. 
 Mr. William Harper. — Expenses of the 
 
 Judges of Assize. 
 Rev. Joseph Hunter. — Bishop Cartwright's 
 
 Diary. 
 Rev. L. B, Larking. — Twysden on the 
 
 Government of England, 
 Wm. Selby Lowiides,Esq, — Secret Services 
 
 of Charles II. and James II. 
 J. (?. Weller Poley, Esq. — Proceedings in 
 
 the County of Kent. 
 George Roberts, Esq. — Diary of Walter 
 
 Yonge. 
 Rev. Edward Ryder. — Letters of Queen 
 
 Elizabeth and James VI, 
 Rev. Walter Sneyd. — A Venetian Relation 
 
 of England. 
 John Sykes, Esq. M.D. — The Skryveners' 
 
 Play. 
 P. E. Towneley, Esq. — The Plumpton 
 
 Correspondence, 
 Dawson Turner, Esq. — Diary of John 
 
 Rous, 
 George Wentworth, Esq. — Letters of Alex. 
 
 Pope to Bp. Atterbury. 
 Mr. J. C. WiUon. — Letters of King 
 
 Charles I. 
 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 WOEKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 
 
 I. 
 
 Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV. in England, 
 and the finall Recoverye of Ms Kingdomes from 
 Henry VI., a.d. mcccclxxi. Edited by John 
 Bruce, Esq., E.S.A. 1838. Pp. xv. 52. 
 
 A more valuable authority for the events it describes than any 
 previously published. The Editor reviews in his preface the other 
 writers upon whom the history of the period depends, and shows 
 which of them are followed by the chroniclers. He also shows that 
 a narrative of these occurrences preserved at Ghent, and published 
 in the 21st volume of the Archseologia, is but a slight abridgement 
 from the present. Except by Mr. Sharon Turner, this had been 
 used by no historian before its publication as the first work of the 
 Camden Society. It was printed from a transcript of John Stowe, 
 in the Harl. MS. 543 ; the original MS., which belonged to Fleetwood, 
 the well-known recorder of London temp, Eliz., having been lost. 
 So far as it was used in Holinshed, it was converted from a Yorkist 
 into a Lancastrian story, in passing through the hands (as Mr. Bruce 
 suggests) of Fleetwood and Abraham Fleming. 
 
 This earliest and very important work of the Camden Society was 
 appropriated in 1845 by the anonymous compiler of a book entitled 
 " The Chronicles of the White Eose of York," — without asking the 
 consent of the Editor, or the concurrence of the Society. 
 
 B 
 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 II. 
 
 Kynge Jolian. A Play in two Parts. By John 
 Baie. Edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq., 
 E.S.A., from the MS. of the Author in the 
 Library of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. 
 1838. Pp. xvi. 110. 
 
 From Bale's own testimony in his Scriptores it is ascertained 
 that one of his twenty-two dramatic works, in idiomate materno, was 
 De Joanne Anglorum rege. In further proof of the authorship of 
 this play, one half of the MS. was found to be in Bale's own auto- 
 graph, though his name was nowhere attached to it. When committed 
 to Mr. Payne Collier for the use of the Camden Society, it had not 
 long been in the Duke of Devonshire's library ; and it was traced 
 to the possession of the corporation of Ipswich, for which town 
 Mr. Collier conjectures that it may have been originally written.* 
 
 m. 
 
 Alliterative Poem on the Deposition of King 
 
 B/ichard II. 
 BiCARDi Maydiston do Concordia iuter Bic. II. 
 
 et Civitatem London. 
 Edited by Thomas Wri&ht, Esq., M.A., E.S.A., of 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 1838. Pp. Aoii. 64. 
 
 The first of these is an exceedingly curious composition, written 
 with all the satiric vigour of Piers Plowman,^ and very probably by 
 
 * Some curious portions of one of the rarest of Bale's tracts," An expostu- 
 lacion or complaynte agaynst tlie hlasphemjes of a franticke papyst of Hamshyre," 
 are printed in *' Narratives of tlie Days of the Reformation " (Camden Society, 
 1859), pp. 316, et seq. Among the rest, at p. 318, a passage that shows that his 
 "comedies " were really enacted in Hampshire; as, in his " Vocacyon," he states 
 they were in Kilkenny. 
 
 1- Mr. Wright has been the editor of two impressions of the " Visions of Piers 
 Plowman," published in 1842 and 1866. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 
 
 the same author. Only one MS. of it is known, which is in the 
 Public Library at Cambridge (LI. 4. 14), immediately following a 
 copy of the celebrated poem already named. Though difficult to 
 understand on first reading, it will be found to reward a prolonged 
 study; and, in addition to the Editor's notes and glossary, the 
 reader may derive further assistance from articles in the Gentleman's 
 Magazine for October 1838 and March 1849. 
 
 The second article printed in this volume is from one of the 
 Digby manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Its author was a 
 doctor in theology, in great repute at court, and famous for his 
 writings in divinity. His Latin poem, in elegiac verse, describes 
 the reception of Richard the Second into London in 1393, with the 
 pageantry and speeches, which are almost as fully if not so poeti- 
 cally described in the chronicles of Hall and Holinshed, and the 
 doggrels of Lydgate. 
 
 Both these Poems have been re-edited by Mr. Wright in his col- 
 lection of " Political Poems' and Songs relating to English History, 
 vol. i. 1859," published under the direction of the Master of the 
 Polls. 
 
 ly. 
 
 Plumpton Correspondence. A Series of Letters, 
 chiefly Domestick, written in the reigns of 
 Edward IV. Richard III. Henry VII. and 
 Henry VIII. Edited by Thomas Stapleton, 
 Esq., E.S.A., from Sir Edward Plumpton's Book 
 of Letters; with Notices historical and biogra- 
 phical of the family of Plumpton of Plumpton, 
 com. Ebor. 1839. Pp. cxxxviii. 312, and a sheet 
 pedigree. 
 
 In antiquity and extent this family correspondence is only inferior 
 to the celebrated Paston Letters. It is printed, not from the original 
 letters, which are no longer in existence, tjut from a volume tran- 
 
 B 2 
 
4 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OE THE 
 
 scribed by Sir Edward Plumpton, who lived from 1581 to 1654; 
 containing three distinct series: 1. the correspondence of Sir William 
 Plumpton, who died 1480; 2. of his son Sir Eobert, who died 
 1 523 ; and 3. of other members of his family down to the reign of 
 Edward VI. This arrangement Mr. Stapleton has maintained. The 
 MS. (which has been partly copied by Dodsworth, and from his 
 collections partially published by Sir Henry Ellis and others,) was 
 discovered in the library of Peregrine Edward Towneley, Esq. ; and 
 from the Cartulary or Coucher Book of Sir Edward Plumpton, 
 remaining in the same custody, Mr. Stapleton has derived the deeds 
 and evidences of the family, which form the chief materials for his 
 very circumstantial introductory memoir. 
 
 Anecdotes and Traditions, illustrative of Early 
 English History and Literature, derived from 
 MS. sources. Edited by William J. Thoms, 
 Esq., E.S.A. 1839. Pp. xxviii. 134. 
 
 The materials of this volume are derived from three sources 
 amidst the MSS. of the British Museum : — 
 
 1. " Merry Passages and Jests," compiled by Sir Nicholas Le- 
 STRANGE, of Hunstanton, CO. Norfolk, the Harl. MS. 6395. (pp.1-79.) 
 
 2. "Eemains of Gentilism and Judaism," by the well-known John 
 Aubrey,* the Lansdowne MS. 231. " Many interesting passages 
 from this manuscript have been transferred by Sir Henry Ellis to 
 his edition of Brand's Popular Antiquities ; these, with one exception, 
 that of the Funeral Dirge, have been omitted in the present work ; 
 but, combined with those here printed, may be said to comprise 
 everything deserving of publication contained in the volume.'' (pp. 
 80-116.) 
 
 * Some further particulars of this MS. work will be found at p. 113 of the 
 " Memoir of John Aubrey, P.B.S." by John Britton, F.S.A. 1845, 4to. published 
 by the Wiltshire Topographical Society. 
 
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 3. The Commonplace book of Mr. John Collet (born 1633), 
 the Addit. MS. 3890. (pp. 117-126.) 
 
 " Notices of Sir Nicholas Lestrange, Bart., and his family con- 
 nexions. Communicated by J. G. Nichols, Esq. F.S.A." occupy the 
 introductory pages xi.-xxviii. Sir Nicholas was the elder brother 
 of Hamon Lestrange, author of" The Reign of King Charles, 1655,' 
 folio, and of Sir Eoger Lestrange, the voluminous essayist and 
 political pamphleteer. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Political Songs of England, from the reign of 
 John to that of Edward II. Edited and trans- 
 lated by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., E.S.A., of 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 1839, Pp. xviiL 
 
 408. 
 
 These poetical expressions of triumph, or of satire, are contem- 
 porary with the events to which they relate, and are consequently 
 remarkable records of popular language, as well as popular senti- 
 ment. Some are in Norman-French, others in Latin, and others in 
 semi-Saxon English. In an Appendix are considerable extracts 
 from the metrical chronicle of Peter Langtoft, in Norman-French, 
 previously inedited. 
 
 In the series of Historical Works, now proceeding under the 
 direction of the Master of the Eolls, Mr. "Wright has edited a volume 
 of " Political Poems and Songs relating to English History, composed 
 during the period from the accession of Edward III. to that of 
 Richard III. 1859;" which series (commencing where that printed 
 for the Camden Society leaves off) is to be further continued. 
 
DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 YII. 
 
 Annals of tlie first Pour Years of the Reign of Queen 
 Elizabeth, by Sir John Ha.twab,d, Knt., D.O.L. 
 Edited from a MS. in the Harleian Collection, 
 by John Bruce, Esq., E.S.A. 1840. Pp 1. 116. 
 
 Camden and Hayward were in their lives united as the joint 
 historiographers of King James's College at Chelsea. " Whilst 
 Camden was setting forth, in pure and simple Latin, his admirable 
 Britannia and his Annales, and was placing before the world some 
 of the most valuable of the foundations of English History in his 
 collection of Chronicles, Hayward was composing, in our own 
 language, works which, notwithstanding their many defects, were 
 of a higher character, and approached more nearly to a better de- 
 scription of historical writing, than any which had then been pub- 
 lished." (p. viii.) HayTvard published in his lifetime a history of 
 the First Year of Henry the Fourth (1599), and the Lives of the 
 first Three Norman Kings (1613), and left as a posthumous work 
 his Life and Reign of Edward the Sixth, published in 1630, and 
 again in 1636 accompanied " with the beginning of the Eaigne of 
 Queene Elizabeth,'' being a portion of the present work, the re- 
 ■ mainder of which remained unnoticed in the Harleian MS. 6021, 
 until detected by Mr. Bruce. A very careful examination of 
 Hay ward's personal history, as well as his career as a historian, is 
 contained in the Introduction. 
 
 ym. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Documents : viz. 
 
 I. A brief History of the Bishoprick of Somer- 
 set from its Eoundation to the year 1174. 
 
 II. Charters from the Library of Dr. Cox Macro. 
 Now first published by the Bev. Joseph Hunter, 
 
 E.S.A. 1840, Pp. ix. 100. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETT. 
 
 The Editor offered the two portions of this volume together, as 
 either would alone have been too small. for a book: their only con- 
 nexion being, that both belonged to affairs of the early English 
 Chxirch. 
 
 I. The Historiola de Primordiis Episcopatus Somersetensis is in 
 Latin, probably composed by a canon of Wells, in the reign of 
 Henry II., but containing a long quotation from a treatise written 
 by bishop Gyso, who flourished under the Confessor and the Con- 
 queror. Mr. Hunter has appended a translation, and copious anno- 
 tations. 
 
 II. The Charters relating to Ecclesiastical Affairs are of hke cha- 
 racter to those collected in Dugdale's Monasticon. They are twenty- 
 one in number, belong to various counties, and are arranged chro- 
 nologically from the Norman times to that of Henry VIII. Their 
 contents are entirely new to our monastic and local history. Mr. 
 Hunter introduces them with some account of the Manuscript Col- 
 lections of the Rev. Cox Macro, D.D., who died in 1767. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Speculi Britannise Pars : an historical and geogra- 
 pMcal Description of the County of Essex, by 
 John Nokden, 1594. Edited, from the original 
 manuscript in the Marquess of Salisbury's library 
 at Hatfield, by Sir Henet Ellis. 1840, Intro- 
 ductory pages xliv. ; text 42. 
 
 John Norden was a surveyor patronised by Lord Burghley. It is 
 doubtful whether a contemporary "John Norden," the author of 
 many religious books, was the same individual or no. Sir Henry 
 Ellis in the introduction to the present volume has collected much 
 interesting information respecting the works of the surveyor, whether 
 printed or still in manuscript. He appears to have designed to 
 compile a survey of the whole of England in counties, of which the 
 following are in existence : — 
 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 1. Cornwall: published in 1728- 4to. 
 
 2. Essex: contained in the volume before us. 
 
 3. Hertfordshire: published in 1598, 4to; reprinted in 1637 and 
 1723. 
 
 4. Middlesex: published in 1593, 4to; reprinted in 1637, and in 
 1723. To this Sir Henry Ellis (in his Introduction, pp. xi.-xviii.) 
 gives some MS. additions from Norden's autograph in the Harleian 
 MS. 570. 
 
 5. Northamptonshire: published in 1720, 8vo. 
 
 6. Surrey: said to have been sold into Holland. (Gough's British 
 Topography, 1780, p. 261.) 
 
 They are all described by Sir Henry EUis. 
 
 X. 
 
 A Chronicle of tlie Eirst Thirteen Years of the reign 
 of King Edward the ^Fourth, by John Wark- 
 WORTH, D.D., Master of St. Peter's College, 
 Cambridge. Edited, from the MS. now in the 
 library of St. Peter's College, by James Orchard 
 Halliwell, Esq., E.E.S., E.S.A., of Jesus Col- 
 lege, Cambridge, &c. 1839. Pp. xxvii. 70. 
 
 This is a brief but valuable historical fragment, written by way 
 of continuation to a copy of the Brut Chronicle. It was bequeathed 
 by Dr. Warkworth to his college, and its composition attributed to 
 him by Leland, whose abstracts from it are printed in his Collecta- 
 nea. It is not however in Warkworth 's handwriting, as Mr. Halli- 
 well ascertained (p. xxiii.), and in reality there is no evidence of 
 authorship to be found, though Mr. Halliwell has persevered in 
 attributing it to Warkworth. 
 
 The anonymous Editor of " The Chronicles of the White Eose of 
 York" (already mentioned under No. I) has reprinted Warkworth's 
 Chronicle, taking credit for modernising its " obsolete orthography," 
 but he has done so without properly understanding it, as, for 
 example, at p. 114 of his book, "hire-ships "/or their ships; p. 115, 
 
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 "to rejoice (in)" ^r to re- enjoy; in p. 126, "King being in the 
 forward " — or front of the army, is explained as " in sure wardf 
 and in 108 the " law padowe," or lex Paduae, is converted into 
 "pothm'l" 
 
 In another passage, in the same page 108, which relates to the 
 capture of King Henry in Lancashire, occur the words (as there 
 printed) "with others more, which deceived; being at his dinner at 
 Waddington Hall," &c. The reading in the Camden Society's book 
 being, "withe other moo; whiche disseyvide, — beyngne at his 
 dynere at Wadyngton Halle" ; but the writer's real expression was 
 evidently discryvide, and the modern English is, " who discovered 
 him (the King) whilst at his dinner," &c. At p. 16 of the Society's 
 • book, line 15, for profytely read perfytely. 
 
 The following articles in the Gentleman's Magazine may be con- 
 sulted with respect to this period of English history : — 
 
 Dec. 1839, p. 614. Review of Warkworth's Chronicle. 
 
 Jan. 1840, p. 38. Marriage of Edward IV. at Grafton. 
 
 Nov. 1840, p. 489. Picture of Sir John Donne and his wife. 
 
 Oct. 1844, p. 376. The battle of Barnet. 
 
 Feb. 1845, p. 144. Settlement of the Crown in 1460 and in 1470. 
 
 June 1845, p. 593. The battle of Banbury, in 1469. 
 
 See also in the Archseologia, vol. xxix. pp. 127-138, "Observations 
 upon certain events in England during the reign of King Edward the 
 Fourth," by Mr. Halliwell, the Editor of Warkworth's Chronicle. 
 
 XL 
 
 Kemp's Nine Dales Wonder: performed in a Daunce 
 from London to Norwich. With an Introduction 
 and Notes by the Rev. Alexander Dtce. 1840. 
 Pp. xxvi. 35. 
 
 This is a reprint of a very scarce printed Tract, of which the old 
 title is as follows: 
 
 " Kemps nine dales wonder. Performed in a daunce from London 
 to Norwich. Containing the pleasure, paines, and kinde entertaine- 
 
10 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 ment of William Kemp betweene London and that Citty in Hs late 
 Morrice. Wherein is somewhat set downe worth note ; to reproue 
 the slannders spred of him : many things merry, nothing hurtftill. 
 Written by himselfe to satisfie his friends. London, Printed by 
 E. A. for Nicholas Ling, and are to be soldo at his shop at the west 
 doore of Sainte Paules Church, 1600." (With a woodcut repre- 
 senting Kemp dancing his morris, his legs covered with small bells, 
 and Thomas Slye, his attendant, walking before him with pipe and 
 tabor ) 
 
 William Kemp was the original actor of some of Shakespeare's 
 characters, and a comedian of high reputation. Like Tarlton, whom 
 he succeeded " as well in the favour of her Majesty as in the opinion 
 and good thoughts of the generall audience," (Haywood's Apology for 
 Actors,) he usually played the Clown, and was greatly applauded for 
 his buffoonery, his extemporal wit, and his performance of the Jig.* 
 
 Kemp's famous morrice-dance to Norwich was performed in the 
 spring of 1599, -f- and Ben Jonson alludes to it in his " Every Man in 
 his Humour,'' which was produced that same year. There are 
 frequent references to it by other dramatic and occasional writers, 
 and the Editor in his Introduction has assembled a large number of 
 such passages, as well as examined critically the various works 
 which have been (falsely) attributed to the same author. Mr. Dyce's 
 notes also abound with curious remarks. Warton admired so much 
 some poetical lines which are introduced to describe the jovial inn- 
 keeper at Eockland in Essex, that he thought they could not have 
 been written by Kemp, but were most probably contributed by his 
 friend and fellow-player Shakespeare ; and Gifford, the editor of Ben 
 Jonson, declared this little book to be "a great curiosity, and, as a 
 rude picture of national manners, extremely well worth reprinting." 
 
 * " As no piece of that kind is extant, we are unable to ascertain its nature with 
 precision; but it appears to have been a ludicrous metrical composition, either 
 spoken or sung by the Clown, and occasionally accompanied by dancing and 
 playing on the pipe and tabor." Introduction, p. xx. 
 
 f The proverbial expression of a Nine Days' Wonder is traced back more than 
 half a century before Kemp's performance : see Notes and Queries, Second Series, 
 xi. 249, 297, 478. It was scarcely applied with strict truth to Kemp's journey, 
 for his nine days of dancing were not consecutive, and, including his intervening 
 rests (one of which was for five days at Bury), it occupied altogether twenty-four 
 
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 It is therefore surprising that it should not have been before re- 
 printed ; but it seems that only one copy of the original edition is 
 known to exist; it is in the Bodleian Library, and was by Blomefield, 
 the historian of Norfolk, mistaken for a manuscript. 
 
 Kemp's book is dedicated to " mistris Anne Fitton,'' one of the 
 Queen's maids of honour: which name of Anne puzzled Mr. Dyce, 
 as he found that Mary daughter of Sir Edward Fitton (some time 
 President of Munster) was described as " maid of honour to Queen 
 Elizabeth " in Ormerod's History of Cheshire, vol. iii. p. 293. It has 
 been ascertained however that Mary's elder sister Anne (whose 
 name is misprinted Alice in Mr. Ormerod's pedigree) was also a 
 maid of honour, and afterwards wife of Sir John Newdigate, of 
 Harefield, Middlesex. (Gentleman's Magazine, May 1840, p. 510.) 
 
 Xll. 
 
 The Egerton Papers. A Collection of Public and 
 Private Documents, cMefly illustrative of tlie 
 times of Elizabeth and James I., from the original 
 manuscripts, the property of the E-ight Hon. 
 Lord Prancis Egerton, M.P., President of the 
 Camden Society. Edited by J. Payne Collier, 
 Esq., P.S.A. 1840. Pp. viii. 509. 
 
 This very miscellaneous volume is a selection from the papers of 
 lord chancellor Egerton, preserved at Bridgewater House. " Personal 
 and family matters, unless connected with some public event," were 
 reserved by the Editor, with a view to " a separate Life of Lord 
 Ellesmere" (p. vi.) — which has not been pubKshed because the 
 chief materials were communicated to the late Lord Campbell for his 
 Lives of the Chancellors. Other documents from the same source, 
 connected with dramatic history, have been published by Mr. CoUier 
 in his works relating to Shakespeare. This volume is illustrated 
 with many facsimiles of autographs, which were engraved at Lord 
 Francis Egerton's expense. 
 
12 DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP THE 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Chronica JoCEiiiNi de Brakelonda, de rebus gestis 
 Samsonis Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Edmundi, 
 Nunc primum typis mandata, curante Johanne 
 Gage Rokewobe. 1840. Pp. xi. 171. 
 
 This chronicle comprehends the annals of the monastery of St. 
 Edmund from 1173 to 1202. The early pages give a rapid sketch 
 of its state under abbot Hugh, intended as an introduction to the 
 history of Samson de Totingham his successor in 1182. Jocelin de 
 Brakelond the author, who derived his name from one of the ancient 
 streets of St. Edmund's Bury, was chaplain to abbot Samson, and 
 almoner of the abbey. His story (remarks the Editor) is told 
 throughout with a ■ pleasing naivete, and sometimes humour ; the 
 characters are drawn with spirit, and the whole seems written with 
 truth.* As a picture of the internal economy of a large monas- 
 tery it is perhaps unrivalled. An English translation, made by 
 Mr. T. E. Tomlins, Editor of Littleton's Tenures, &c., was published 
 in 1844, under the title " Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth 
 Century.'' The original is part of the Liber Alius of the abbey, now 
 the Harleian MS. 1005. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Narratives illustrative of tbe Contests in Ireland in 
 1641 and 1690. Edited by Thomas OuorTON 
 Cbokek,. 1841. Pp.. xiv. 149. 
 
 This volume consists of two distinct articles : — 
 
 1. The Siege of Ballyally Castle, in the county of Clare, in 1641. 
 By Maukice Cuffe, Esq., of Ennis ; great-grandfather of John Cuffe, 
 who was created Baron Desart in 1733. This occupies only 23 pages. 
 
 * An episode, being an account of the duel fought in 1163 between Henry of 
 Essex and Robert de Montford, the former of whom, being accused of treason 
 whilst acting as the King's standard-bearer in Wales, was vanquished, and became 
 a monk of Reading, is written by a different hand, and in a more ambitious style. 
 
WOBKS or THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 13 
 
 2. Macariffi Excidium, or the Destruction of Cyprus ; describing, 
 under disguised names, the struggle between James II. and Wil- 
 liam III. in Ireland in the year 1690. Its author was Colonel 
 Charles Kelly, a partisan of the former; and the MS. had been for 
 several years in Mr. Crofton Croker's possession. 
 
 Soon after its publication, the same composition was published 
 by the Irish Archseological Society from a MS. in Trinity College, 
 Dublin, translated from the original Latin by Denis Henry Kelly, Esq. 
 of Castle Kelly, a descendant of the author, and illustrated with 
 notes by John O'Callaghan, Esq. 
 
 XV. 
 
 The Chronicle of William de Rishangee, of the 
 Barons' Wars. 
 
 The Miracles of Simon de Montfort, 
 
 Edited from Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, 
 by James Orchaud Halliwell, Esq., E.R.S., 
 E.SA., E.IL.A.S., M.R.S.L., Secretary of the 
 Cambridge Antiquarian Society, &c. &c. &c. 
 1840. Pp. xlii. 162. 
 
 Eishanger was the continuator of the Great Chronicle of St. Alban's, 
 it is said from the time when its former compiler Matthew Paris 
 had been removed by death in the year 1259.* Mr. Halliwell 
 describes in his preface seven distinct historical works by Eishanger. 
 That here edited is De hellis Lewes et Evesham, preserved in the 
 Cotton MS. Claudius D. vi. It is the only known copy, and very 
 full of clerical errors ; some of which presented insuperable diiE- 
 culties to the Editor. It is therefore very desirable that another 
 copy should be discovered. 
 
 * Mr. Halliwell inadvertently states in p. v. that Rishanger was appointed histo- 
 riographer to King Henry II. in 1259; but, immediately after, he shows by 
 an autograph memorandum of Rishanger himself (of which a lithographic facsimile 
 accoigpanies this volume), that he was only sixty-two in 1342, 
 
14 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 A poetical chronicle of the same period, in the MS. Cotton. Otho 
 D. VIII., is introduced by Mr. HaUiwell into his notes. 
 
 The second part of the volume, pp. 67-110, contains the Miracula 
 Simonis de Montfort, from the MS. Cotton. Vespasian A. vi. These 
 miracles are altogether diiFerent from some others ascribed to Mont- 
 fort, related in the Chronicle of Mailros, pp. 232-239. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 The Latin Poems commonly attributed to Walter 
 Mapes; collected and edited by Thomas Wright, 
 Esq. M.A., F.S.A., &c. 1841, Pp. xlix. 371. 
 
 The contents of this work are divided into the following classes : — 
 
 I. Poems bearing the name of Golias (22 pieces). 
 
 II. Other Poems attributed to Walter Mapes (21 pieces). 
 
 m. Poems of a similar character, but not directly attributed 
 to "Walter Mapes (8 pieces). 
 
 The above are all in Latin ; and they are foUowed by an Appendix 
 of Translations and Imitations, in English, and French, with a single 
 piece in Spanish, another in Anglo-Norman, and another in Scotish. 
 
 The Introduction contains a memoir of Mapes, followed by an 
 appendix of illustrative documents. After an able critical review of 
 the collection, the Editor remarks (p. xx.), " On the whole it appears 
 that we have little reason for attributing to Walter Mapes the greater 
 portion of the poetry published in the present volume.'' (See the 
 treatise of Walter Mapes De Ntigis Gurialium, hereafter, No. L.) 
 
 XVII. 
 
 The Second Book of tbe Travels of Nicander 
 Ntjoius, of Oorcyra. Edited from tbe original 
 Greek MS. in tbe Bodleian Library, with, an 
 
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 English. Translation, by tlie Rev. J. A. Okamer, 
 D.D., Principal of New Inn Hall, and Public 
 Orator in the University of Oxford. 1841. Pp. 
 xxvii. 126. 
 
 This work was really executed by the Eev. Isaac Fidler, of New 
 Inn Hall, who transcribed the text, made the translation, supplied 
 the notes, and prepared the index: the Introduction alone being put 
 forth by Dr. Cramer as his own production. 
 
 The book describes England as it appeared to a Greek traveller 
 towards the end of the reign of Henry VHI. It is a portion only of 
 the original work ; which contains also the travels of the writer in 
 Germany ^and other countries. The MS. in the Bodleian Library, 
 which formerly belonged to Archbishop Laud, has been mutilated. 
 Dr. Cramer heard of a more perfect copy in the Ambrosian Library 
 at Milan, but was refused a transcript, because an intention of pub- 
 lication was entertained by one of the officers of that institution. 
 That intention has not yet been performed. 
 
 xvm. 
 
 Three Early English Metrical Romances. With an 
 Introduction and Glossary. Edited frona a MS. 
 in the possession of J, I. Blackburne, Esq., M.P., 
 by John Robson, Esq. 1842. Pp. xliv. 132. 
 
 These romances are: — 
 
 1. The Anturs (i.e. Adventures) of Arther at the Tamewathelan.* 
 
 2. Sir Amadaoe. 
 
 3. The Avowynge of King Arther, Sir Gawan, Sir Kaye, and Sir 
 Bawdewyn of Bretan. 
 
 They are written in the North-Western dialect of Lancashire.f It 
 
 * See the Thornton Romances (Camden Society, 1844), p. xxix. 
 t The dialect of the South-Eastern district is well known by Tim Bobbin's 
 works. 
 
16 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 is characterized especially by the termination of the past tenses and 
 participles in -ud or -ut, and the plural of nouns in us, peculiarities 
 which distinguish the Ireland MS. (now belonging to Mr. Blackburne) 
 from Weber's copy of Sir Amadas, and from the two MSS. of Sir 
 Gawan collated by Sir Frederic Madden. 
 
 The Glossary " is, in the most important parts, a literal copy of 
 Sir Frederic Madden's most excellent one to Sir Gawyne." (Edited 
 for the Bannatyne Club, 1839.) 
 
 The Ireland MS. is in quarto, written on a coarse parchment, the 
 same that is described, but very imperfectly, in Gregson's Fragments 
 of the History of Lancashire. 
 
 A corrected copy of the letter of Petrarch to Boccacio quoted in 
 p. viii. of the Introduction, is given in the Gentleman's Magazine 
 for June 1842, p. 593. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Cata- 
 logue of Ms Library of Manuscripts; from the 
 original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum 
 at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cam- 
 bridge. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, 
 Esq., E.E.S., Hon. M.R.I.A., &c. &c. 1842. 
 Pp. viii. 102. 
 
 Dr. Dee's Diary is gathered from the margins of old Almanacs 
 preserved in the library of the Ashmolean Museum. In addition to 
 some genealogical notes of earlier date, it extends from the year 
 1577 to 1601. Besides his personal adventures, it is curious from 
 the intercourse which this somewhat charlatanical philosopher had 
 with many of the most eminent persons in the court of Queen Eliza- 
 beth. Not the least remarkable passages are those describing his 
 frequent interviews with the Queen herself 
 
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 The Catalogue of his library of manuscripts exists in his own 
 autograph both at Trinity college, Cambridge, and in the Harl. MS. 
 1879. It is transcribed by Ashmole in Aslim. MS. 1142. Although 
 the collection has been long since dispersed, "the Catalogue (remarks 
 Mr. Halliwell,) is valuable for the notices which it preserves oi 
 several middle-age treatises not now extant. He is said to have 
 expended on this collection the sum of 3000Z." 
 
 Mr. Halliwell shortly after undertook to edit for the Camden 
 Society A Selection from the Papers of Dr. Simon Forman, another 
 astrological philosopher and the contemporary of Dee, which are 
 also preserved among Ashmole's MS S. ; but, after 40 pages had been 
 put into type, it was thought advisable to suppress that work, as 
 revealing too freely its writer's frailties. An edition of 100 copies 
 was " Privately printed," but subsequently sold by Mr. Russell Smith. 
 
 XX. 
 
 An Apology for Lollard Doctrines, attributed to 
 WiCLiPPE. Now first printed from a Manuscript 
 in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. With 
 an Introduction and Notes, by James Henthoun 
 Todd, D.D., V.P.R.I.A., EeUow of Trinity CoUege, 
 and Treasurer of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. 
 1842. Pp. Ixiii. 206. 
 
 This treatise is the xxvith article in a volume which once 
 belonged to archbishop Usher; the whole of the contents of which 
 (in number xxix) are described by the Editor in his Introduction. 
 It is the same volume which was also described in the British Maga- 
 zine (in a series of papers upon the MSS. of Wicliffe in the library 
 of the university of Dublin), vol. xiv. p. 275. The editor's notes to 
 this treatise occupy pp. 115-188, and are followed by a glossary. 
 
18 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 XXI. 
 
 E-utland Papers. Origixial Documents illustrative 
 of the Courts and Times of Henry VII. and 
 Henry VIII. selected from the private archives 
 of his Grace the Duke of Rutland. By William 
 Jerdan, F.S.A., M.E-.S.L., Corresponding Mem- 
 ber of the Real Academia de la Historia of Spain, 
 &c. &c. &c. 1842. Pp. xii. 133. 
 
 These papers consist of a device for the Coronation of Henry VII., 
 the livery of Garter at Abbeville on the marriage of Louis XII., 
 papers relating to the Field of Cloth of Gold,* the meeting of 
 Henry VIII. and the Emperor Charles V. at Gravehnes, the visit of 
 Charles V. to England in 1522 ; documents relating to the Household 
 of Henry VIII. ; and claims at the Coronation of Queen Mary. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 The Diary of Dr. Thomas Cabtwright, Bishop of 
 Chester ; commencing at the time of his elevation 
 to that see, August 1686 ; and terminating with 
 the Visitation of St. Mary Magdalene College, 
 Oxford, October 1687. Now first printed from 
 the original MS. in the possession of the Rev. 
 Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. 1843. Pp. xviii. 110. 
 
 Little if any explanation seems necessary in addition to this exact, 
 though brief, titlepage. Bishop Cartwright is chiefly remembered 
 for his pliant conformity to the political, if not to the religious, prin- 
 
 * Other papers relating to this memorable meeting are printed in the Archseo- 
 logia, Tol. xxi. 175; and in the Chronicle of Calais. (Camden Society, No. XXXV.) 
 
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 ciples of James the Second, and for the odious character gi^en him 
 by bishop Burnet.* 
 
 The MS. is described by the editor as a small octavo, bound in 
 black leather; but its history was not traced further than that it 
 contained the book-plate of George Watkin, B.D., of Lincoln College, 
 Oxford ; and that it had been in the hands of a bookseller at North- 
 ampton about fourteen years before it came into the possession of 
 Mr, Hunter. 
 
 xxm. 
 
 Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men of tlie / 
 Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centu- 
 ries. "With Notes and Illustrations by Sir Henbt 
 Ellis, K.H., E.R.S., Secretary of the Society of 
 Antiquaries, and Principal Librarian of the British 
 Museum. 1843. Pp. vii. 460. 
 
 The Editor first intended to confine this collection to the letters of 
 Camden and his learned friends; but he afterwards extended his 
 design and brought it so low in date as the letters of the Abb6 Mann 
 to Sir Joseph Banks. In connection with Camden's letters Sir 
 Henry Ellis has given the bibliographical history of his " Britannia." 
 Many letters are inserted addressed to Sir Robert Cotton; others 
 from the correspondence of Wheloc, Sir Symonds D'Ewes, Strype, 
 Eay, &c. &c. Among those of earlier date are letters from Udall, 
 Cheke, Bernard Gilpin, Ascham, NoweU, Dee, Stubbes, Ocland, 
 Bodley, Speed, and Usher; in later times specimens from TUlotson, 
 Wanley, Prior, Hickes, De Foe, Tanner, Swift, Steele, Ockley, 
 Heame, Nathaniel Lardner, the Earl of Macclesfield, Richard Cum- 
 berland, Dr. Franklin, and other celebrated men. 
 
 * Some notes on his personal history are given in Notes and Queries, I. x. 101. 
 
 C2 
 
20 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 A contemporary Narrative of the Proceedings 
 against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for Sor- 
 cery in 1324, by E-ichard de Ledrede, Bishop of 
 Ossory. Edited by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., 
 E.S.A., &c. 1843. Pp. xlii. 61. 
 
 The text of tHs volume, which is in Latin, is printed from the 
 Harleian MS. 641. Mr. Wright's introduction contains many- 
 curious materials in illustration of ancient superstitions with 
 respect to sorcery: but he has subsequently republished them in 
 a still more popular form, in his " Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, 
 1851," 2 vols. 8vo, 
 
 XXV. AND LIV. 
 
 Promptorium Parvulorum sive Olericorum, Lexicon 
 Anglo-Latinum Princeps, auctore fratre Gax- 
 FRiDo Gbammatico dicto, e Predicatoribus Lenne 
 Episcopi, Northfolciensi, A.D. circa M.CCCC.XL. 
 Olim e prelo Pynsoniano typis mandatum ; nunc 
 primum, commentariolis subjectis, ad fidem co- 
 dicum recensuit Albertus Way. 
 Tomus Prior, 1843. Pp. xi. 318 [A— L.] 
 Tomus Alter, 1853. Pp. 319-439 [M— R inclusive.] 
 
 This edition of our first English-Latin dictionary is formed upon 
 the text of the Harleian MS. 221, that being the most ancient, the 
 most correct, and the most copious known to the Editor. Numerous 
 various readings and additions are given from other MSS. and from 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 2 I 
 
 Pynson's edition ; the authorities for which are denoted by initials : 
 but perhaps the most valuable portion of the work consists in the 
 ample illustrations and examples collected in the Editor's notes. 
 Among the numerous contemporary authorities from which illus- 
 trations were largely drawn were some MSS. of the Latin-English 
 Dictionary entitled the Medulla Cframmatices, and afterwards the 
 Ortus Vocahilorum, which is attributed to the same author as the 
 Promptorium Parvulorum. 
 
 Prefixed are fac-similes from the MS. at King's College, Cambridge, 
 No. 8, and that in Sir Thomas Phillipps's collection No. 8306, being 
 Heber's MS. 1360. 
 
 The work was interrupted by Mr. Way's ill-health and other 
 occupations : it is much to be regretted that it should not be com- 
 pleted, either by his own hands, or under his direction and superin- 
 tendence. 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 Three Chapters of Letters relating to the Sup- 
 pression of Monasteries. Edited from the origi- 
 nals in the British Museum by Thomas Wright, 
 Esq., M.A., E.S.A., &c. Corresponding Member 
 of the B/oyal Institute of Erance (Academie des 
 Inscriptions et Belles Lettres). 1843. Pp. xvi. 
 304. 
 
 The letters and documents in this volume are altogether in number 
 142. The three chapters into which the Editor has arranged them 
 relate to: — 1. The period previous to the passing of the Act for the 
 suppression of the Smaller Monasteries ; 2. From the Dissolution of 
 the Smaller Houses to the passing of the Act for the Dissolution of 
 the Larger Monasteries (commencing at p. 116); 3. The final sup- 
 pression of the Monastic Houses and Confiscation of their property 
 (p. 253). The originals of these letters and documents are chiefly 
 
22 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP THE 
 
 preserved in the Cottonian MS. Cleopatra E. iv., having been pro- 
 bably selected at some early period from the Cromwell Papers now 
 lodged at the State Paper Office. 
 
 Many single letters had been printed by bishop Burnet, and in 
 topographical and other works. Mr. Wright added to these a few 
 documents taken from other collections in the British Museum, 
 especially from the Scudamore papers, a recent acquisition. 
 
 Since the publication of Mr. "Wright's book other letters of the 
 same class, derived directly from the Cromwell Papers, have been 
 edited by Sir Henry Ellis in the Third- Series of his Original Letters, 
 1846; and by Mary Anne Everett Wood (now Mrs. Green), in her 
 collection of the Letters of Eoyal and Illustrious Ladies of Great 
 Britain, published in the same year. 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 Correspondeiice of Eobert Dudley, Earl of Leyces- 
 ter, during his Government of the Low Countries, 
 in the years 1686 and 1586. Edited by John 
 Bruce, Esq., E.S.A., Treasurer of the Camden 
 Society. 18M. Pp. 1. 496. 
 
 This large and important volume is derived partly from a MS. 
 placed at the disposal of the Camden Society by Frederic Ouvry, 
 esquire, and partly from original letters contained in various 
 volumes at the British Museum. Mr. Ouvry's MS. formerly be- 
 longed to Henry Powle, esquire, of Shottesbrooke, speaker of the 
 House of Commons and master of the rolls in the reign of Wil- 
 liam HI. 
 
 Mr. Bruce in his Introduction has developed in a masterly manner 
 the historical value of the documents here printed. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 23 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 The Erencli Chronicle of London. Oroniques de 
 London, depuis I'an 44 Hen. III. jusqu'a I'an 
 17 Edw. III. Edited, from a MS. in the Cot- 
 tonian Library, by George James Aungieb,. 
 1844. Pp. xxi. 112. 
 
 This is tlie only known London chronicle in the French language, 
 and is on that account distinguished as the French chronicle. Of 
 other London chronicles see the account under No. LIII. hereafter. 
 
 The Editor has very amply illustrated, chiefly from other MSS. 
 in the British Museum (of which he gives an account in the 
 Preface,) the several subjects noticed in this chronicle ; together with 
 the genealogies of the mayors and sheriffs who flourished during the 
 period. In the Appendix is printed (from the Cottonian MS. 
 Caligula A. xviii.) a French poem on the Execution of Sir Thomas 
 de Turherville in 1295, supposed to have been written by the author 
 of the poem on the Siege of Carlaverock, which was edited by 
 Sir Harris Nicolas, 1828, 4to. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 Three Books of Poltdore Vergil's EngHsh History, 
 comprising the Reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., 
 and Richard III. from an early Translation pre- 
 served among the MSS. of the old Royal Library 
 in the British Museum. Edited by Sir Henry 
 Ellis, K.H. 1844. Pp. xxxix. 244. 
 
 " Polydore's History during the reigns which form the present 
 volume is indispensable to fill a chasm of near seventy years in the 
 
24 DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 dark period to which they bear relation ; and it is important to know 
 that he wrote this portion of his work whilst many of the persons 
 alluded to in the events of the reigns of Edward the Fourth and 
 Eichard the Third were alive, and who communicated with him (see 
 pp. 185, 209)." Preface, p. xxxii. 
 
 " The compilation of Polydore Vergil's History occupied the 
 labour of twenty-eight years before it was presented to King Henry 
 the Eighth. It was the first of our histories in which the writer 
 ventured to compare the facts and weigh the statements of his pre- 
 decessors ; and it was the first in which summaries of personal cha- 
 racter are introduced in the terse and energetic form adopted in 
 the Eoman classics. In choice of expression, and in the purity of 
 Latin style, Polydore Vergil exceeded all his contemporaries: and 
 the numerous editions of his work in the sixteenth century suffi- 
 ciently shew the estimation in which his contemporaries held him. 
 Locked away in a language unknown to the common reader, his 
 History has suffered disparagement in later times." (P. xxviii.) 
 
 With this high valuation of an English history of which no English 
 translation had been published, the Editor joined an equal apprecia- 
 tion of the old version which he had discovered in the British 
 Museum (MS. Eeg. C. VIII. IX.): " The Translation is free, and of 
 a thorough English character, evidently made by a person power- 
 fully acquainted with the language into which he rendered his 
 author, and weU versed in the colloquial phrases of the period. 
 "Who he was we have yet to learn; but this must be said, that in 
 elegance of expression he rivals his author. As a specimen of 
 language alone the whole Work is worthy of publication." 
 
 Sir Henry EUis assigns this Translation to " a hand of the latter 
 part of the reign of Henry the Eighth." It had been transcribed to 
 the end of the reign of Henry VI. The two next reigns are in a 
 coarser hand, with numerous interlineations and corrections. Those 
 of Henry VII. and Henry VHI. were left untranslated. 
 
 The Editor in his Preface has collected many documents in illus- 
 tration of the biography of Polydore Vergil ; with a series of extracts 
 from his detractors, as well as all the opinions that have been given 
 in his favour. (See No. XXXVI ) 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 25 
 
 XXX. 
 
 The Thornton Romances. The Early English 
 Metrical Romances of Perceval, Isumbras, 
 Eglamour, and Degravant. Selected from Ma- 
 nuscripts at Lincoln and Cambridge. Edited 
 by James Orchard Hali/Iwbll, Esq., E.R.S., 
 Hon. M.I.A., Hon. M.R.S.L., E.S.A., &c. Cor- 
 responding member of the Comit6 des Arts et 
 Monuments. 1844. Pp. Ivi. 312. 
 
 These romances have their general title from having been found 
 in a miscellaneous volume compiled by Eobert Thornton, residing 
 at or near Oswaldkirk in Yorkshire, about the year 1440; and 
 vrhich is now preserved in the library of Lincoln cathedral. Its 
 contents are fully described by Mr. Halliwell in the Introduction to 
 the present volume, pp. xxv.-xxxvi., followed by descriptions of two 
 similar volumes of English poetry, in the Cambridge University 
 Library, Ff. ii. 38, and Ff. i. 6, from which the third and fourth 
 Romances (which are imperfect in the Thornton MS.) were printed 
 in this edition. Mr. Halliwell also refers to such portions of this 
 remarkable Manuscript as have been made public by Eitson, 
 Laing, Madden, Hartshorne, "Wright, Black, and other editors. 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 Verney Papers. Notes of Proceedings in the 
 Long Parliament, temp. Charles I. printed from 
 original pencil memoranda taken in the House 
 by Sir Ralph Verney, Knight, Member for the 
 
26 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 borough of Aylesbury, and now in the possession 
 of Sir Harry Verney, Bart. Edited by John 
 Bruce, Esq., F.S.A. 1845. Pp. xiii. 191. 
 
 " With the exception of some few single speeches, and the brief 
 minutes in the Journals, we have little to which we may appeal, 
 with any thing like an assurance of its fidelity, as a representation 
 of the actual proceedings of the Long Parliament." It is unneces- 
 sary to say more in regard to the historical value of this volume. 
 
 XXXII, 
 
 The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, K.B., 
 of Skreens, in the Hundred of Chelmsford ; now 
 first printed from the original MS. in the pos- 
 session of his lineal descendant Thomas William 
 Bramston, Esq., one of the Knights of the Shire 
 for South Esses. 1845. Pp. xx. 443. 
 
 Sir John Bramston was bom in 1611, the eldest son of Sir John 
 Bramston, Chief Justice of the King's Bench. His personal and 
 family memoirs, which are intermingled with pubUc events and 
 politics, were written in the latter years of a long life. " The auto- 
 biographer, though no doubt accurate enough in respect of events 
 quorum pars fuit, is not to be implicitly depended upon in his narra- 
 tive of public affairs'." See some instances exemplifying this remark 
 in the Eeview published in the Gentleman's Magazine for Feb. 1846 : 
 where also some misprints in the text are pointed out. This volume 
 was edited by Lord Braybeooke, then President of the Society, 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 27 
 
 xxxm. 
 
 Letters from James Earl of Perth, Lord Chancellor 
 of Scotland, &c., to his Sister the Countess of 
 Erroll, and other members of his Eamily. Edited 
 by William Jerdan, M.R.S.L., and Corr. Mem. 
 of the Real Academia de la Historia of Spain. 
 1845. Pp. xvi. 112. 
 
 James Drummond fourth Earl of Perth, appointed Chancellor of 
 Scotland in 1684, became a convert to the church of Rome, and a 
 faithfal adherent to the exiled James II., who whilst at St. Germain's 
 advanced him to the title of Duke of Perth, nominated him a Knight 
 of the Garter, and appointed him First Lord of his Bedchamber, 
 Chamberlain to the Queen, and Governor to the Prince of Wales. 
 The first three letters in this volume were written whilst he was a 
 prisoner in Stirling Castle in 1688: the remainder at various places 
 in the Netherlands and Italy from 1693 to 1696. They contain 
 many interesting notices of the exiled Stuarts and their followers : 
 and were printed from the originals in the possession of Lady Wil- 
 loughby de Eresby. 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 De Antiquis Legihus Liber. Cronica Maiorum et 
 Vicecomitum Londoniarum, et quedam que con- 
 tingebant temporibus illis ab anno MCLXXVIII" 
 ad annum MCCLXXIY"'; cum Appendice. Nunc 
 primumtypis mandata curanteTnoMA Stapleton. 
 1846. Pp. cclxxi. 276. 
 
 The original of this antient London chronicle is still preserved at 
 Guildhall. Mr. Stapleton's Preface, which (it will be seen from 
 the number of pages stated above,) occupies half the volume, is 
 
28 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 occupied in great measure in tracing the descent and representation 
 of Henry FitzAylwin the first mayor of London, through the 
 families of Aguilun, Bardolf, Beaumont, and Lovell, to the present 
 Lord Beaumont and Earl of Abingdon. There is a distinct index 
 to this portion of the work. 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 The Chronicle of Calais, in the reigns of Henry VII. 
 and Henry VIII. to the year 1540. Edited from 
 MSS. in the British Museum, by John Gough 
 Nichols, F.S.A. 1846. Pp. xlii. 228. 
 
 The chronicle which occupies forty-eight pages of this volume is 
 attributed to Kichard Turpyn a burgess of Calais. His claim to the 
 authorship is very doubtful : but it was evidently compiled by one 
 who had access to the ofEcial records of the town. It is printed 
 from a transcript by the chronicler Stowe, now the Harleian MS. 
 542. The appendix consists of documents relating to Calais during 
 the period comprised in the chronicle, or to the other subjects of 
 which it treats. In the introduction an historical sketch is given of 
 the history of Calais during the English occupation ; with facsimiles 
 of a view of Calais, and a map of the adjacent country, both drawn 
 temp. Hen, VHL, and now in the Cottonian collection. 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 PoLTBORE Vekgil's English History, from an early 
 Translation preserved among the MSS. of the old 
 Royal Library in the British Museum. Vol. I. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 29 
 
 contaming tlie first eight books, comprising the 
 Period prior to the Norman Conquest. Edited by 
 Sir Henet Ellis, K.H. 1846. Pp. xv. 324. 
 
 This is the first portion of the same work which has been already 
 described under No. XXIX. The Council were "led to believe 
 that an edition of the whole was desirable, not only as affording a 
 faithful version of a work hitherto confined to the Latin tongue, but 
 as preserving a beautiful translation, made at a period when our 
 language was beginning to assume the character of modem elegance."* 
 The whole work would have occupied two more intermediate 
 volumes: but, as the members of the Society did not appear to 
 appreciate it, it was not continued. 
 
 In the preface to this volume Sir Henry ElHs has made some 
 further additions to Polydore's biography. • 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 A Relation, or rather a True Account, of the Isle 
 of England ; with sundry particulars of the 
 customs of these People, and of the royal reve- 
 nues under King Henry the Seventh, about the 
 year 1500. Translated from the Italian, with 
 Notes, by Charlotte Augusta Snetd. 1847. 
 Pp. xviii. 135. 
 
 This is the earliest Venetian Relation of any foreign country 
 known to be extant. An abridgment of a similar composition by 
 Giovanni Micheli, ambassador from Venice in the reign of Mary, is 
 published by Sir Henry Ellis in his Original Letters, Second Series ; 
 
 * If Sir Henry Ellis's estimate of the language be admitted, the spelling is 
 execrable. To conciliate the taste of the general reader, the orthography should 
 be modernized. 
 
30 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 and extracts from another by Petruccio Ubaldini, a Florentine, in 
 the reign of Edward VI., have been published by Von Eaumer. 
 
 The collection edited by Eugenic Alberi at Florence in 1840 
 contains three Eelations of England, that of Daniele Barbaro in 1551 
 (of which an edition was privately, but very incorrectly, printed by 
 Earl Macartney in 1804), that of Giovanni Micheli in 1557, and an 
 anonymous one temp. Mary. 
 
 Prefixed to the present volume is a list of Venetian Ambassadors 
 to England* from 1502 to 1763, by the late John Holmes, Esq., 
 F.S.A., one of the Keepers of the Manuscripts in the British Museum. 
 It includes references to their Eelations in various collections of 
 MSS., many of them being in that of the Eev. Walter Sneyd, the 
 possessor of the original of that here printed. 
 
 xxxYin. 
 
 Documents relative to the foundation and Antiqui- 
 ties of the Collegiate Oliurch. of Middleham in the 
 County of York; with an Historical Introduction, 
 and incidental notices of the Castle, Town, and 
 Neighbourhood. By the Eev. "William Atthill, 
 Canon and Sub-Dean of Middleham. 1847. 
 Pp. XXX. 112. 
 
 The college of Middleham was founded by a very prominent 
 personage in English history, Eichard Duke of Gloucester, after- 
 wards King Eichard the Third, and, by unusual good fortune, it 
 still maintains its ground in Protestant times. It has otherwise 
 few claims to general interest; and the present book differs in its 
 character from other works of this Society. The " Introduction'' 
 is in fact a modern compilation of the Topographical class; and 
 
 * Mr. Holmes had previously published, in the Crentleman's Magazine for 1840, 
 a Catalogue of the French Ambassadors to England. These and other similar 
 eolleotions by Mr. Holmes (considerably enlarged by his MS. additions) are now 
 preserved among the Additional MSS. in the British Museum. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 3 1 
 
 the " Documents," wMch are put foremost in the title-page, are in 
 reality only an Appendix of such evidences as might be collected in 
 regard to any other coUegiate church. 
 
 xxnx. 
 
 The Camden Miscellany. Volume the Pirst. 1847. 
 
 This Volume contains Six several articles : — 
 
 I. Register and Chronicle of the Abbey of Aber- 
 conway : from the Harleian MS. 3725. Edited 
 by Sir Henkt Ellis. Pp. 23. 
 
 After some historical prolegomena, the first date in this chronicle 
 is 1170. It concludes with some charters granted to the abbey by 
 King Edward I. Its language is Latin. 
 
 II. Chronicle of the Rebellion in Lincolnshire, 1470. 
 Edited by John Gough Nichols, Esq., E.S.A. 
 Lond. and Newc. Pp. 28. 
 
 From a contemporary narrative preserved in a MS. of the College 
 of Arms, Vincent 435, art. ix. It is valuable not only from detailing 
 particulars not elsewhere found ; but as proceeding from a writer 
 instructed by the King's government, and who appeals to documents 
 throughout. 
 
 III. BuU of Pope Innocent VIII. on the Marriage 
 of Henry VII. with Elizabeth of York. Commu- 
 nicated by J. Patnb Collier, Esq., Treas. S.A. 
 Treasurer of the Camden Society. Pp. 7. 
 
 From a folio broadside, attributed to the press of Caxton ; dis- 
 covered by the Editor on the fly-leaf of an old book, and presented 
 by him in 1852 to the Society of Antiquaries. It is an English 
 translation of the Latin Bull printed in Rymer's Foedera, xii. 297. 
 
32 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 IV. Journal of the Siege of E-ouen, 1591. By Sir 
 Thomas Coningsbt, of Hampton Court, co. 
 Hereford. Edited by John Gotjgh Nichols, Esq., 
 F.S.A. Lond. and Newc. Pp. 84. 
 
 This journal is formed from a series of letters. Their writer Sir 
 Thomas Coningsby was one of the officers of the army sent by 
 Elizabeth, under the command of the Earl of Essex, to aid Henri IV. 
 in his resistance to the League. It contains an account of the pro- 
 ceedings of the campaign of 1591 from the 13th August to the 6th 
 September, and from the 3rd October to the 24th December, with 
 many remarkable notices of the other English officers employed. 
 The copy here edited was found in the Harl. MS. 288. A journal 
 of the service performed during the same period by the English 
 forces commanded by Sir John Norris in Bretagne, is appended 
 to Churchyard's "Civill Wars in the Netherlands. 1602." 
 
 V. Letter from George Fleetwood to Ms Father, 
 giving an account of the Battle of Lutzen, and 
 the Death of Gustavus Adolphus. Edited by Sir 
 Philip de Malpas Grey Egebton, Bart., M.P., 
 F.R.S., V.P.G.S. Pp 12. 
 
 From a MS. found in the same box at Oulton Park as the Grey 
 MS. described under No. XL. The writer of the Letter, which is 
 dated " Stateene, the 22th Novemb. stiU. vet. 1 622," was a son of 
 Sir William Fleetwood, of Cranford in Middlesex, Eeceiver of the 
 Court of Wards. Having entered the service of Sweden, he was 
 made a Baron there, and left a son and heir named Gustavus. 
 
 VI. Diary of Dr. Edward Lake, Archdeacon and 
 Prebendary of Exeter, Chaplain and Tutor to 
 the Princesses Mary and Anne, daughters of the 
 Duke of York, afterwards James the Second, in 
 the years 1677-1678. Edited by George Percy 
 Elliott, Esq., Barrister-at-law. Pp. 32. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 33 
 
 This Diary commences just before the marriage of the Princess 
 Mary to the Prince of Orange. It contains some remarkable anec- 
 dotes of Charles the Second, and of various members of his family 
 and court. The original MS. was in the Editor's possession. 
 
 XL. 
 
 A Commentary of the Services and Charges of 
 William Lord Grey of Wilton, K.G., by his son 
 Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton, K.G. With a 
 Memoir of the Author, and illustrative Docu- 
 ments. Edited by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey 
 Egerton, Bart., M.P., P.R.S., V.P.G.S., &c. 
 1847. Pp. xxiv. 83. 
 
 A manuscript found at Oulton park, Cheshire, proved to be the 
 original " Commentarie," written by Arthm Lord Grey, of the mili- 
 tary actions of his father: communicated to Holinshed's Chronicle. 
 The variations appeared to be sufficient to justify this reprint, and 
 the text of Holinshed is appended. Among the documents in the 
 appendix, derived chiefly from the patent rolls, is a long ceremonial 
 of Lord Grey's funeral in 1562, from the College of Arms. Prefixed 
 is a fac-simile of his garter-plate at Windsor, and of a map of the 
 castle and town of Guisnes, in the Cottonian collection, Augustus I. 
 n. 23. 
 
 XLI. 
 
 Diary of Walter Yongb, Esq., Justice of the 
 Peace, and M.P. for Honiton, written at Colyton 
 and Axminster, co. Devon, from 1604 to 1628. 
 Edited by George Roberts, Author of the His- 
 
34 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 » 
 
 tory of Lyme Regis, The Life of the Duke of 
 Monmouth, &c. 1848. Pp. xxxii. 124. 
 
 Walter Yonge, the direct ancestor of the Baronets of that name, 
 was a barrister-at-law, author of " A Manual, or a Justice of the 
 Peace his Vade Mecum, 1642," and sheriff of Devonshire in 1628. 
 He was of the Puritan party : and his Diary chiefly relates to public 
 affairs.* The original MS. belonged to the Editor, having been pur- 
 chased in a lot of old books at a sale at Taunton. 
 
 XLII. 
 
 The Diary of Henry Machtn, Citizen and Merchant- 
 Taylor of London, from A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1563. 
 Edited by John Gou&h NiCHOiiS, P.S.A. Lond. 
 and Newc. 1848. Pp. xxxii. 464. 
 
 The original of this Diary is now among the Cottonian Manu- 
 scripts, Vitellius P. V. considerably injured by fire. It is the same 
 which was largely used by Strype, in his various works, particularly 
 from its earlier portions, and also by Mr. Payne Collier, in his History 
 of the Stage, and by other writers. But the author had not been 
 identified until this publication. Machyn was by trade a furnisher 
 of funerals, his records of which preserve much genealogical in- 
 formation: whilst his details of occurrences in London, particularly 
 those connected with the changes in religious observances, and de- 
 monstrations of popular opinion, are of considerable historical value. 
 He was more than fifty years of agef at the time his Diary commences. 
 " Machyn's Diary " has been frequently cited by Mr. Froude in his 
 recent history of this period: and it is characterized as "one of the 
 most valuable records of the interesting period to which it relates " 
 by the Kev. Dr. Maitland, in his " Essays on subjects connected with 
 the Reformation in England. 1849." 
 
 * A later Diary of the same writer, from 1642 to 1645, is now preserved in the 
 British Museum, Addit. MSS. 18,777—18,780. 
 
 + After a remarkable practice, Machjn dated his birthday by the Wednesday in 
 Whitsun week, so that it was with him a " moveable feast." I did not detect 
 this circumstance before the book was published. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 35 
 
 XLin. 
 
 The Visitation of tlie County of Huntingdon, under 
 the authority of William Camden, Clarenceux 
 King of Arms, by his deputy Nicholas Chablbs, 
 Lancaster Herald, A.D. 1613. Edited by Sir 
 Henry Ellis, K.H. 1849. Pp. xv. 140. 
 
 This volume was undertaken as a tribute to the memory of Camden 
 as a Herald. It is printed from the Cottonian MS. Julius F. viii., 
 and all the trickings of arms, seals, &c. are engraved in wood. It was 
 collated, during its progress through the press, with the MS. C. 3. 
 in the College of Arms, which is regarded as the original of the 
 Visitation. 
 
 Sir Henry Ellis in his preface has collected some interesting 
 notices of Camden in his character of a Herald, together with others 
 of his coadjutor Nicholas Charles. 
 
 XLiy. 
 
 The Obituary of Richard Smyth, Secondary of the 
 Poultry Compter, London : being a Catalogue of 
 all such persons as he knew in their life : extend- 
 ing from A.D. 1627 to A.D. 1674. Edited by Sir 
 Henry Ellis, K.H. Pp. xxii. 124. 
 
 This was printed from a transcript in the Sloane MSS. 886. The 
 original has been since detected in the University Library at Cam- 
 bridge, marked Mm. 4, 36. "It is well and clearly written, but 
 the latter part of it marks the alteration of the hand by the advancing 
 years of the writer. There are many variations in the orthography, 
 and some omissions, in the Camden Society's publication." (Notes 
 and Queries, 1st Series, ii. 309.) 
 
 d2 
 
36 DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 Sir Henry Ellis has given in his preface an account of the life and 
 writings of Smyth, together with his pedigree and some extracts 
 from a priced catalogue (now in the British Museum,) of his books 
 and manuscripts, which were sold by auction in 1683, being (as 
 Oldys says,) the richest Catalogue of any private library that had 
 then been printed. See also further notices of him in Notes and 
 Queries, Second Series, iii. 112, viii. 87, xi. 444. 
 
 XLV. 
 
 Certaine Considerations upon the Government of 
 England. By Sir Roger Twtsden, Kt, and 
 Bart. Edited from the unpublished Manuscript 
 by John Mitchei^l Kemble, Esq., M.A., Mem- 
 ber of the Eoyal Academies of Berlin and Munich, 
 &c. &c. &c. 1849. Pp. Ixxxv. 191. 
 
 The author was the same Sir Roger Twysden who edited the 
 Decern Scriptores in 1652. The introduction contains very interest- 
 ing memoirs of that eminent antiquary and politician* The treatise 
 with other family papers, was placed dn Mr. Kemble's hands by the 
 Eev. Lambert B. Larking, who had married a direct descendant of 
 Sir Eoger. This valuable political treatise is supposed to have 
 been written during its author's retirement after the cessation of the 
 Civil troubles. 
 
 XLVL 
 
 Letters of Queen Elizabeth and King James VI. of 
 Scotland, some of them printed from originals 
 
 * For Sir Roger Twysden'a Journal see the third volume of ArchieoloKia Can- 
 tiana, 1861. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 37 
 
 in the possession of tlie Rev. Edward E,yder, and 
 others from a MS. which formerly belonged to 
 Sir Peter Thompson, Kt. Edited by John Bruce, 
 Esq., Treas. S.A. 1849. Pp. xxii. 180. 
 
 Forty-three of the letters are from the first source mentioned in 
 the title-page, and the remaining fifty-two from the second. Of the 
 former, thirty-two are originals written wholly by the hand of queen 
 Elizabeth. They are traced by the Editor from a family which 
 produced many eminent Scotish statesmen, the Maitlands of Thir- 
 lestane. The other MS. is a volume of transcripts which appears to 
 have been collected for Sir Peter Thompson, the Dorsetshire anti- 
 quary, who died in 1770. The letters range in date from 1582 to 
 1602. Those of Elizabeth "are terse, emphatic, animated; they 
 teem with a native vigour ; they abound in homely natural illustra- 
 tions ; and are forcible, consistent utterances of an independant indi- 
 vidual will. James's letters are not less characteristic. Now ob- 
 sequious and coaxing, now pedantic, now plausible, now pert; in 
 one or two instances aiming at something like courtly gallantry and 
 refinement; but never rising either to dignity of feehng or nobility 
 of expression." The general tenour of this correspondence corrects 
 the ordinary representations of the conduct of Elizabeth towards 
 Scotland : showing that it was consistently regulated by two prin- 
 ciples, — the one, a determination that no continental power should 
 interfere by force of arms in Scotish affairs ; the other, a determina- 
 tion to uphold Protestanism and the Protestant party. 
 
 XL VII. 
 
 Chronicon Petroburgense. Nunc primiun typis 
 mandatum, cnrante Thoma Stapxeton. 1849. 
 Pp. XV. 200. 
 
 This chronicle commences in the year 1122; consists for the first 
 hundred years of brief entries principally relating to public affairs ; 
 
38 DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 during the next fifty becomes a little more minute, and more speci- 
 fically a Peterborough chronicle; but from 1273 to its close in 1294 
 assumes its particular importance. 
 
 The original is in the library of the Society of Antiquaries. A 
 transcript, which had been made for the Eecord Commissioners, was 
 lent to the Camden Society for printing, on the suggestion of Sir 
 Francis Palgrave. 
 
 This was the last task of that laborious antiquary Mr. Stapleton, 
 V.P.S.A. The Preface was written, during his fatal illness in 
 August 1849, by Mr. Bruce, Treas. S.A. 
 
 xLvni. 
 
 The Chronicle of Queen Jane, and of two years of 
 Queen Marj^, and especially of the Rebellion of 
 Sir Thomas Wyat : Written by a resident in the 
 Tower of London. Edited, with illustrative Do- 
 cuments and Notes, by John Goitgh Nichols, 
 Esq., E.S.A. 1850. Pp. yiii. 196. 
 
 The original of this chronicle, now the Harleian MS. 194, is a 
 pocket diary, once in the possession of John Stowe, who derived 
 from it some of the more interesting passages of the period between 
 July 1553 and Oct. 1554. The author has not been positively 
 identified, but there is reason to believe that he was one of the 
 officers of the royal mint, and his name (from a marginal note of 
 Stowe) perhaps Eowland Lea. 
 
 In the appendix are reprinted two rare tracts : 1. " The copie of a 
 pistel or letter sent to Gilbard Potter, &c. 1553; 2. " The copie of 
 a Letter sent in to Scotland, of the arivall and landynge, and moste 
 noble Maryage of the moste illustre prynce Philippe prynce of 
 Spayne. 1555.'' The latter written by John Elder, whose proposal, 
 addressed to Henry VIIL for the Union of England and Scotland, is 
 printed from the Royal MSS. as the first article of the Bannatyne 
 Miscellany. 1824. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 39 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 Wills and Inventories, from the Registers of the 
 Commissary of Bury St. Edmund's and the Arch- 
 deacon of Sudbury. Edited by Samuel Ttmms, 
 Treasurer and Secretary of the Bury and West 
 Suffolk Archaeological Institute. 1850. Pp. xii. 
 300. 
 
 These Wills and Inventories extend from the year 1370 to 1650: 
 and, though from a limited storehouse, are well selected and of con- 
 siderable curiosity. They have an Appendix of some valuable notes, 
 with Indexes of 1. Testators; 2. Persons; 3. Places; 4. Subjects. 
 
 Among the works of the Surtees Society, none received greater 
 welcome than the volumes of York and Durham Wills, and at an 
 early period of the Camden Society it was considered a very desirable 
 object to follow so excellent an example. Though the Registers at 
 Doctors' Commons were closed, except to the payers of enormous 
 fees, there were others at Lambeth Palace full of the most interesting 
 documents of this nature; and both the late Archbishop and the 
 present have most liberally seconded the wishes of the Society. A 
 volume of Lambeth Wills was even commenced at the press ; but some 
 unfortunate miscarriages, and the illness and death of Mr. Stapleton, 
 who had undertaken to supply the requisite assistance, marred this 
 most desirable design. 
 
 L. 
 
 Gtjalteri Mapes de Nugis Curialium Distinctiones 
 quinque. Edited from the unique Manuscript in 
 the Bodleian Library at Oxford, by Thomas 
 Wki&ht, Esq., M.A., E.S.A., etc. 1850. Pp.xvi. 
 
 248. 
 
40 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 Whatever uncertainty attends the authorship of the poetry (see 
 the previous article, No. XVI.) attributed to Walter Mapes, — or 
 Map, vfhich was his real English name, there is no doubt of the 
 present work having proceeded from his pen. " It is the book in 
 which this remarkable man amused himself with putting down his 
 own sentiments on the passing events of the day, along with the 
 popular gossip of the courtiers with whom he mixed — in the reign 
 of Henry II. It contains almost the only authentic details we have 
 relating to the life of its author, besides a great mass of historical 
 anecdotes which are entirely new to us. In fact, the whole book is 
 one mass of contemporary anecdote, romance, and popular legend, 
 interesting equally by its curiosity and its novelty." (Preface.) 
 
 No other MS. is known but that in the Bodleian Library, with 
 the exception of the Epistle inserted in the fourth " Distinction " or 
 division (pp. 142-154,) entitled Dissausio Valerii ad Rufinum philo- 
 sophum ne uxorem ducat, which occurs as an anonymous production 
 in several MSS. and was printed among the suppositious works of 
 St. Jerome. 
 
 LI. 
 
 The Pylgrymage of Sir Richard Guylforde to the 
 Holy Land, A.D. 15G6, from a copy believed to 
 be unique, from the press of Richard Pynson. 
 Edited by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., Sec. S. A., 
 Principal Librarian of the British Museum. 1851. 
 Pp. xvi. 92. The Preface is followed by a sheet 
 pedigree of the family of Guldeford of Hempsted, 
 Kent. 
 
 This is one of the few works of the Camden Society that are re- 
 prints of the early productions of typography. The original is in 
 the Granville Library at the British Museum. The name of the 
 
WOEKS OP THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 41 
 
 author does not appear, but lie was probably the chaplain attendant 
 upon Sir Richard Guylford, who died on this journey when at Jeru- 
 salem.* In the Gentleman's Magazine for June and Sept. 1851, 
 and Jan. 1852, are three articles (by the present writer) upon Pil- 
 grimage to the Holy Land, in which it was shown that most of the 
 descriptive passages of this book, as well aa those of the Pilgrimage 
 of Eichard Torkington in 151 Z,! were derived from some Latin 
 manual J then current in the hands of the pilgrims, and which was 
 either an abridgment of the great work by Bernhard de Breidenbach 
 on the same subject, first published at Mentz in the year 1483, or 
 else was the common source of some of the details given by that 
 author. Torkington sometimes corresponds with Guylford, even in 
 the narrative of his personal adventures ; but on the whole it appears 
 more probable that they both copied from some former writer, rather 
 than that Torkington actually copied Guylford. 
 
 LII. 
 
 Moneys received and paid for Secret Services of 
 Cliarles II. and James II. from 30th March, 
 1679, to 26th December, 1688. Edited from a 
 MS. in the possession of William Selby Lowndes, 
 
 * Sir Richard Guylford (who was a Knight of the Garter,) died at Jerusalem, , 
 Sept. 6, 1506, the day after his principal comrade, John Whitby, Prior of Gis- 
 borough in Yorkshire. 
 
 t The Pilgrimage of Richari TorHngton, Parson of Mulberton in Norfolk, is a 
 small MS. volume formerly in the possession of Mr. R. B. Wheler of Stratford 
 upon Avon. Considerable extracts from it were published in the Gentleman's 
 Magazine for October 1812, and they are reprinted in Fosbroke's British Mona- 
 chism. Those which are added in the Magazine for Jan. 1852 exhaust all his 
 most remarkable passages. Torkington 's Pilgrimage and that of William Wey 
 were both for some time on the list of Suggested Works of the Camden Society. 
 The latter has been subsequently printed for the Roxburghe Club, 1857. 
 
 J As shown by the names of places being generally in the Latin genitive case. 
 
42 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 Esq., by John Yonge Akerman, Esq., Eellow 
 and Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of 
 London. 1861. Pp. x. 240. 
 
 This was the account rendered by Henry Grey, Esq. some time 
 after the accession of William III. He had received during nine 
 years and three quarters the sum of 565,573Z. 15s. 5|tZ., and ex- 
 pended the whole, except a balance of 34H. 5s. 6|rf. The payments 
 are scarcely of the kind which might be expected from the title. 
 They are principally divisable into two classes: 1. Extraordinary 
 expenses incident to the management of the King's private estate, 
 and the repairs and improvements of his residences ; and 2. Payments 
 and gratuities to private persons, for incidental services. There are 
 frequent payments to agents, as, for example, to William Chiffinch, 
 for expenses that are not described. Indexes of Persons, Places, and 
 Matters, render the contents of the volume readily available. 
 
 Lin. 
 
 Chronicle of the Grey Eriars of London. Edited 
 by John Gough Nichols, E.S.A. Lond. and 
 Newc. 1852. Pp. xxxv. 108. 
 
 This is one of the London Chronicles, being formed on the ground- 
 work of a list of the Mayors and Sheriffs, and dating according to 
 the mayoralty year, to which the year of our Lord and "the year of 
 the King's reign are made to accommodate themselves, in a way 
 explained in the preface. The Latin chronicle entitled " Liber de 
 Antiquis Legibus," and " The French Chronicle of London," (both 
 printed for the Camden Society, Nos. XXXIV. and XXVIU.) are also 
 chronicles of this class. Mr. Nichols has enumerated (in p. vii.) 
 eight such chronicles besides the present, including the large and 
 well-known work of Fabyan ; and the brief London Chronicle of the 
 times of Henry VII. and Henry VIII., printed in the Camden Mis- 
 cellany, vol. IV., may be added to the list. 
 
WOEKS OP THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 43 
 
 The present chronicle most nearly resembles that contained in the 
 very miscellaneous volume first printed in 1502 and reprinted in 
 1811, edited by F. Douce, Esq., as "TAe Customs of London, otherwise 
 called Arnold's Chronicle.^ But their similarity ceases after the year 
 1502; and towards the end of the reign of Henry VII. this chronicle 
 begins to have a character of peculiar importance, its compiler being 
 ■watchfully attentive to the religious changes of the times. It termi- 
 nates in the year 1556. It was little used by Stowe,* though he 
 possessed the original, and it wholly escaped the attention of Strype. 
 The distinctive title given to it by the Editor is owing to its being 
 found in the Register-book of the Grey Friars of London, which is 
 now bound as part of the Cotton. MS. Vitellius F. xn. Mr. Nichols, 
 at p. xxxi., has described the contents of this Register, of which he 
 had previously edited the first portion, being a catalogue of the 
 sepulchral monuments in the Grey Friars' church, in the fifth volume 
 of the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, 1838. The histori- 
 cal account, which next follows, in Latin, of the order and house of 
 the Franciscans, was published by Stevens in the first volume of his 
 additions to Dugdale's Monastioon (1718-23), translated into English, 
 and is reprinted (still with very numerous errors of names,) in the 
 new edition of that great work (1817-29), but has lately been pub- 
 lished in the original Latin in the volume of Monumenta Franciscana, 
 edited by J. S. Brewer, M.A., 1858, under the direction of the 
 Master of the Rolls. Then comes the present Chronicle ; and the 
 book concludes with some genealogical tables in illustration of scrip- 
 tural and English history, but of no value. 
 
 LIV. (See p. 20.) 
 
 * One of the most curious passages extracted by Stowe from this Chronicle, that 
 relating to the execution of Agnes lady Hungerford (there erroneously called 
 Alice), for the alleged murder of her husband, has been further illustrated — though 
 not entirely cleared of its mystery, by an article in the XXXVIIIth Tolume of 
 the Arohseologia, entitled, " An Inventory of the Goods of Dame Agnes Hunger- 
 ford," &c. 
 
44 DESCEIPTITE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 LV. 
 
 The Camden Miscellany. Volxime the Second. 
 1853. 
 
 This Volume contains Six Articles: viz. — 
 
 I. Account of the Expenses of John of Brahant, 
 and Henry and Thomas of Lancaster, A.D. 1292-3. 
 Edited by Joseph Btjktt, Esq., of the Public 
 Record Office. 1853. Pp. xvi. 18. 
 
 John son of the Duke of Brabant was contracted in marriage to 
 Margaret daughter of King Edward I. in the year 1278, before the 
 princess was three years of age. In 1284, when John was fifteen, 
 he came to reside in England, and he remained here until his father's 
 death in 1294. His companions during the year 1292-3, Thomas 
 and Henry of Lancaster, were the King's nephews, and both of them 
 afterwards Earls of Lancaster. This household book traces the 
 movements of these princes from Berwick and the Scotish border to 
 various places in the midland and southern counties, and records 
 their expenses, as kept by Richard of Loughborough. The original 
 roll is among the records of the Treasurer of the Eeceipt of the 
 Exchequer. 
 
 II. Household Expenses of the Princess Elizabeth 
 during her residence at Hatfield, October 1, 1551, 
 to September 30, 1552. Edited by Viscount 
 STUANapoBD, G.O.B., G.C.H., E.R.S., Director 
 S.A., &c. &c. 1853. Pp. iv. 48. 
 
 The household book here printed belonged at various times to 
 Gregory Ballard, LL.B , registrar of the diocese of Oxford, who 
 gave it (to some person unknown) in the year 1652; to Gustavus 
 Brander, Esq. ; to Samuel Tyssen, Esq ; and to William Barnes, 
 Esq., of Eedland hall near Bristol ; by whose widow (after it had 
 been bought in at the sale of his library for 150?.,) it was given to 
 
WOEKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETT. 45 
 
 Lord Viscount Strangford. It was described in Tlie Antiquarian 
 Repertory, vol. i. p. 64, and in Nichols's Progresses of Queen Eliza- 
 beth, vol. i. p. vii. The account is rendered by Thomas Parry, Esq., 
 Cofferer of the Lady Elizabeth, and each of its twenty-six pages bear 
 the signature of the princess and that of her chamberlain Sir Walter 
 Buckler. There are five initial letters, very spiritedly drawn in pen 
 and ink, one of which (representing Justice,) is engraved in the 
 Antiquarian Repertory, and two others (Nature* and Temperance,) 
 in the present edition. 
 
 III. The Request and Suite of a True-hearted 
 Englishman, written by William Cholmlet, 
 Londyner, in the year 1553. Edited, from the 
 original MS. in the library of the Faculty of 
 Advocates of Edinburgh, by W. J. Thoms, E.S.A. 
 1853. Pp. vi. 20. 
 
 This interesting political treatise has (since its publication by the 
 Camden Society,) been largely quoted by the historian Froude. It 
 relates to commercial matters, and particularly the trade in wool and 
 cloth. Its author is identified as William Gholmley, of London, 
 grocer, whose vrill was proved in the prerogative court of Canterbury 
 in 1554. 
 
 IV. The Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerk- 
 enwell in March 1627-8 : and a Letter found in 
 their House, (as asserted,) directed to the Eather 
 Rector at Bruxelles. Edited by John Gottgh 
 Nichols, E.S.A. 1852. Pp. 64. 
 
 * By milk sent forth from her breaate Nature is revivifying the body of a man 
 cut into pieces; with this motto — 
 
 Guncta fovens lapsa instauro, peritura deduco. 
 The noble Editor apparently did not perceive the meaning of this design, remark- 
 ing in his Introduction that "the subject has completely baflBed me, though I 
 have sought for it in all the works on Emblems, &c. to which I could procure 
 access." 
 
46 DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 The Narrative of this Discovery was written by Sir John Coke, 
 secretary of state, not by Sir Robert Heath, the attorney-general, as 
 I supposed at the time when it was printed. The original is pre- 
 served in the State Paper Office ; together with the documents upon 
 which it was founded. Some of these, which were missing, having 
 been recovered, are printed and described in the Fourth volume of 
 the Camden Miscellany, as a Supplement to the present work. I am 
 informed by my friend Mr. Bruce that others have since turned up. 
 
 The Letter found among some Jesuites, &c. (which was printed in 
 1643 as a pamphlet, and imperfectly in Prynne's " Hidden Workes 
 of Darkenes brought to Publick Light," and in Rushworth's Histo- 
 rical Collections,) has been ascertained to have been a political squib, 
 the production of Sir John Maynard, K.B, the M. P. for Calne: see 
 the " Supplement" (in the Camden Miscellany, vol. IV.) p. 10. 
 
 V. Trelawny Papers. Edited by Wn^iiiAM Dttruant 
 Cooper, P.S.A. 1853. Pp. 23. 
 
 These papers extend in date from 1644 to 1711, and are connected 
 with the well-known Jonathan Trelawny, successively Bishop of 
 Bristol, Exeter, and Winchester, and his father and grandfather, 
 
 VI. Autobiograpliy and Anecdotes, by William 
 Taswell, D.D., sometime Rector of Newington, 
 Surrey, Rector of Bermondsey, and previously 
 Student of Christ Church, Oxford. A.D. 1651- 
 1682. Edited by Geor&e Perot Elliott, Esq., 
 Barrister-at-law. Pp. 40. 
 
 Dr. Taswell was a son-in-law of Archdeacon Lake, whose Diary 
 forms a portion of Vol. I. of the Camden Miscellany. His personal 
 anecdotes relate chiefly to the years which he spent at Westminster 
 School and in the University of Oxford. They were translated by 
 his grandson from an original written in Latin, which is lost. 
 
WORKS OP THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 47 
 
 LVI. 
 
 Letters and Papers of the Verney Eamily down to 
 the end of the year 1639. Printed from the 
 original MSS. in the possession of Sir Harry 
 Yerney, Bart. Edited by John Brttce, Esq. 
 1853. Pp. xiv. 308, and a sheet pedigree. 
 
 These papers commence in the reign of Edward I. but are not 
 numerous before the seventeenth century. The Editor has inter- 
 woven them with a continuous history of the family, so that they 
 are presented to the reader in the most attractive form. Among the 
 subjects noticed are, — in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV. 
 the clever management by which Sir Ralph Verney, the Yorkist 
 lord mayor, was able to recover for his son the lands of the Lancas- 
 trian Sir Eobert Whittingham ; in the reign of Henry VII. the gay 
 life led by the courtier Sir Ralph Verney,* the chamberlain of 
 princess Margaret, and one of her attendants into Scotland; in the 
 reign of queen Mary the details of Dudley's conspiracy, in which two 
 of the Verneys were implicated, and in respect to which our histo- 
 rians have been much at fault; in the reign of James I. the journey 
 of Prince Charles into Spain, upon which Sir Edmund Verney was 
 attendant ; and the adventures of the EngHsh pirates in the Mediter- 
 ranean ; in the reign of Charles I. the forced loans and the excessive 
 amount assessed upon Hampden, and a variety of other matters of 
 public interest. The latter part of the volume relates principally to 
 the armament set forth against the Scotish covenanters in 1639; of 
 
 * Mr. Bruce has established (p. 31,) the marriage of Sir Ealph with Eleanor 
 sister to Sir Richard Pole, K.G., the father of Cardinal Pole and his brethren, by 
 Margaret (of Clarence) Countess of Salisbury. He has inadvertently styled 
 Geoffrey Pole, the father of Sir Richard and Eleanor, " Sir Geoffrey Pole, E.G." 
 He was plain ** Geoffrey Pole, of Buckinghamshire.'' (Collectanea Topogr. et 
 Geneal. i. 130.) 
 
 Mr. Bruce has also (at p. 47) identified as Sir Ralph Temey's a tomb at King's 
 Langley which had been traditionally reported to be that of Piers Gaveston. 
 
48 DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 which the letters of Sir Edmund Verney contain the best known 
 account. 
 
 It was the Editor's intention to continue this work in another volume . 
 
 LVII. 
 
 The Ancren Riwle ; a Treatise on the Rules and 
 Duties of Monastic Life. Edited and translated 
 from a Semi- Saxon MS. of the Thirteenth Cen- 
 tury. By James Morton, B.D., Vicar of Hol- 
 beach, Prebendary of Lincohi, and Ohaplaia to 
 the Right Hon. Earl Grey. 1853. Pp. xxviii. 
 480. 
 
 The original of this work, both in the Saxon-English and in a 
 Latin version, exists in various manuscripts, of which the Editor 
 gives an account in his Preface. The text he has preferred is the 
 Cottonian MS. Nero A. xivj ; and, contrary to the opinion of Wanley 
 and of Planta (in the Catalogue of the Cottonian MSS.), Mr. Morton 
 gives reasons to conclude that it was first written in English not in 
 Latin. It had been usually attributed to the pen of Simon of Ghent, 
 bishop of Salisbury 1297-1315; but, as its language is certainly 
 more antient, Mr. Morton suggests that it was written by "William 
 Poore, an earlier bishop of that see, 1217-1228, who was born and 
 died at Tarrent in Dorsetshire, and probably addressed this compo- 
 sition to the nuns of that place, when he reconstructed and enlarged 
 their abbey. It may therefore be regarded as an example of the 
 West of England dialect of the thirteenth century. Both as a 
 picture of monastic life and as a monument of our national language 
 it is highly curious; and it is a matter of wonder that its editio 
 princeps should not have appeared before the formation of the 
 Camden Society. An elaborate glossarial index is appended. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOOIETT. 49 
 
 Lvm. 
 
 Letters of tlie Lady BriUiana Harley, wife of Sir 
 Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan, Knight of 
 the Bath.. With Introduction and Notes by 
 Thomas Tatloe Lewis, A.M., Vicar of Bridstow, 
 Herefordshire. 1854. Pp. lii. 275. 
 
 These Letters were copied from the originals in the possession of 
 Lady Frances Vernon Harcourt, a descendant of the writer. 
 
 Lady BriUiana was a daughter of Edward Lord Viscount Conway, 
 and received her name in allusion to her birth at the BriU in Holland, 
 whilst her father was Lieut.-Governor there. Her husband Sir 
 Koberk Harley was a very active member of the Long Parliament, 
 and a leading supporter of the Eepublican party in the county of 
 Hereford. His wife defended the castle of Brampton Bryan when 
 besieged by the Koyalists in 1643; it surrendered after three weeks, 
 and her death ensued three months after. Her letters, which are 
 chiefly addressed either to her husband or her eldest son, are 
 charming efiiisions of domestic affection, in the midst of danger and 
 difficulty. 
 
 A - LIX. AND LXII. 
 
 A Boll of the Household Expenses of Bichard de 
 Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, during part of the 
 years 1289 and 1290. Edited by the Rev. John 
 Webb, M.A., E.S.A., M.B.S.L. 1854. 
 
 Volume II. Abstracts, Illustrations, Glossary, 
 and Index. 1855. Together, pp. ccxxxii. 270. 
 
 The great value of this work consists in the elaborate manner in 
 which it is edited by that erudite antiquary the Rev. John Webbi 
 
 E 
 
50 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 •who, in his Abstract and Illustrations, consisting of more than two 
 hundi-ed pages, has brought together a very copious store of 
 interesting information in elucidation of the state of society, both 
 religious and civil, in the reign of Edward I. The Appendix, of 42 
 pages, contains several important documents relating to the church 
 of Hereford and the canonisation of bishop CantUupe. 
 
 LX. 
 
 Grants, etc. from the Crown during the reign of 
 Edward the Fifth, from the original Docket- 
 Book, MS. Harl. 433. And two Speeches for 
 opening Parliament, by John Russell, Bishop 
 of Lincoln, Lord Chancellor. With an Historical 
 Introduction, by John Gough Nichols, F.S.A. 
 Lond. and Newc. 1854. Pp. Ixvii. 96. 
 
 The text of this volume forms but a small portion of that valuable 
 historical record, the Harleian MS. 433 ; a rough register or draft- 
 book into which public business of all kinds, transacted by the 
 clerks in personal attendance upon King Richard the Third, was 
 entered from day to day. The portion here printed is limited to 
 the two months of the nominal rule of Edward the Fifth. The 
 whole MS. was described by Humphrey Wanley, in his Catalogue of 
 the Harleian Manuscripts, more fully than any other, occupying 
 sixty-five folio pages (vol. i. pp. 256-311); still it was found 
 that he had arbitrarily passed over nearly two-fifths of the contents, 
 and a fresh abstract was consequently prepared in the year 1835, in 
 the Manuscript Department of the British Museum, with a view to 
 an improved Catalogue of the Harleian Collection. This is now ac- 
 cessible as the Additional MS. 11,269: but the labour would have 
 been better bestowed upon an index to the original. The record 
 itself ought to be printed, but it is a task too large for the Camden 
 Society, the members of which require variety in their books. 
 
WOKKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 51 
 
 In his Introduction the Editor has reviewed the history of the 
 short reign of Edward the Fifth ; and has proved that Mr. Sharon 
 Turner vras mistaken in concluding that a parliament was held 
 during that period, and that the Duke of Gloucester assumed the 
 functions of Protector upon such authority. The brief Patent Roll 
 of Edward V., of vfhich Mr. Nichols describes the contents, shows 
 that Eichard had become Protector on the 14th of May, 1483. 
 A parliament was summoned for the 25th of June, and for that 
 occasion the speech of the lord chancellor, supposed by Mr. Sharon 
 Turner to have been made in the presence of Edward V., was pre- 
 pared. The parliament was deferred by supersedeas, as appears by 
 a writ received at York on the 21st of June.* 
 
 The Speeches of bishop Bussell, the chancellor, which are preserved 
 in the Cottonian MS. Vitellius E. x. are, in reality, the imperfect 
 drafts of three: 1. that prepared for the parliament of Edward V.; 
 2. that prepared for the 11th Nov. 1483, when Eichard first pro- 
 posed to meet his parliament as Bang; and 3. that actually delivered 
 to his parliament on the 23rd Jan. 1483-4; but in the third the 
 material of the second is worked up again. These compositions, 
 which in their character are believed to be unique,f and are very 
 remarkable examples of the English language at that day, are ap- 
 pended by Mr. Nichols to his Introduction. The term then generally 
 applied to the chancellor's speech was a Collation. A Latin oration 
 by the same prelate made to Charles duke of Burgundy in 1470, 
 when Dr. Eussell went as one of the commissioners with the 
 Garter, was printed at the time at Bruges, and is reprinted in 
 the first volume of Dr. Dibdin's edition of Ames's Typographical 
 Antiquities. 
 
 * In Mr. Gairdner's preface to " Letters and Papers illustrative of the Reigns of 
 Richard III. and Henry VII." 1861, p. xviii. it is alleged that I have misunderstood 
 this important incident of Richard's usurpation : for " the parliament really did 
 meet, but the meeting was an informal one." Mr. Gairdner refers to the gathering 
 at Baynard's Castle, on the 25th of June, the very day that had been appointed 
 for the parliament at Westminster. I do not, however, perceive that such meeting 
 lasted beyond the day, or can be maintained to have amounted to a parliament. 
 
 J. G. N. 
 
 f A brief political sermon (in English), preached by the bishop of Exeter at 
 St. Paul's on the accession of Edward IV. in 1461, is edited by Mr. Halliwell in 
 the Archaeologia, vol. xxix. p. 128, from the Cottonian MS. Vespasian E. vii. 
 
 E 2 
 
52 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP THE 
 
 LXI. 
 
 The Camden Miscellany, Volxime the Third. 
 1855. 
 
 This Volume contains five Articles (the fourth and fifth being 
 placed under one title), viz. : — 
 
 I. Papers relating to Proceedings in the County of 
 Kent, A.D. 1642-A.D. 1646. Edited by Richard 
 Almack, Esq., P.S.A., from original MSS. in the 
 possession of John George Weller Poley, Esq. 
 Pp. vii. 68. 
 
 These documents furnish an authentic account of the proceedings 
 of the Parliamentary party in Kent at the beginning of the Civil 
 war, having been preserved by Thomas Weller, gentleman, of Ton- 
 bridge, virho was Treasurer of the subscription moneys collected 
 under the authority of the deputy lieutenants. 
 
 II. Ancient Biographical Poems, on the Duke of 
 Norfolk, Viscount Hereford, the Earl of Essex, 
 and Queen Elizabeth. Erom Gough's Norfolk 
 MSS. in the Bodleian Library. Edited by 
 J. Payne Collieb, Esq. Pp. 26. 
 
 These poems, whose authors are unknown, are from a MS. com- 
 piled by a Sufiblk gentleman named Thomas Brampton. Some of 
 his own verses, dated 1594, are printed at p. 5. 
 
 III. A Relation of some Abuses which are com- 
 mitted against the Common-Wealth; together 
 with a freindlie Reprehension of the same. Com- 
 posed especiallie for the benefit of this countie of 
 Durhame, December the xxvj"> 1629, by a poore 
 
WORKS OF THE OAMDEN SOCIETY. 53 
 
 Ereind and Welwisher to the Common- Wealth. 
 Edited, from the original MS. preserved in the 
 British Museum, by Sir Eredekio Madden, 
 K.H., E.E.S. Pp. iv. 35. 
 
 The author, A. L,, was a poor bachelor, without land or estate, 
 resident at no great distance from the city of Durham, and dates his 
 Dedication to Eichard Hunt, D.D., Dean of Durham, on the 26th 
 Dec. 1629. He sets forth, in an earnest manner, the Abuses he 
 laments to witness in his native county and the kingdom in general, 
 which he classes under four heads, namely, the waste of woods, the 
 pulling down of castles and fortresses, the decay of martial discipline, 
 and the vanities of the people, in drinking, smoking, and apparel. 
 His remarks have much curiosity, both as regards manners in 
 general, and some particular statements that he makes. 
 
 IV. Inventories of the Wardrobes, Plate, Chapel 
 Stuff, &c. of Henry EitzEoy, Duke of Richmond ; 
 and of the Wardrobe Stuff at Baynard's Castle, 
 of Katharine Princess Dowager, Edited, with a 
 Memoir and Letters of the Duke of Richmond, 
 by John Gouan Nichols, E.S.A. Pp- c. 55. 
 
 These Ipyentories (both preserved in the Eoyal MS. 7 F. XIV.) 
 are — 
 
 1. The Inventory of the Duke of Kichmondes Goodes, taken by 
 John Gostwyk, 25 July, 18 Hen. VIII. (1526) — i.e. upon his de- 
 parture from London to reside in the North of England as Lord 
 Warden of the Marches. 
 
 2. A View taken by Sir Edward Baynton, 13 Feb. 26 Hen. VIII. 
 (1534-5) of all Warderobe Stuffe remaining within Eaynardes 
 Castille, whiche late was the Princesse dowgiers. 
 
 They have an Index, with glossarial explanations ; and in the 
 Preface the Editor has given a list of other contemporary documents 
 of a similar character. 
 
 The Memoir contains very fuU particulars of the Duke of Kich- 
 mond's establishment as Lieutenant or Viceroy in the North of 
 
54 Cescriptive catalogue of the 
 
 England, and also of his education under Dr. Croke; togetlier with 
 twenty-one of his letters to the King, Wolsey, and Crumwell, derived 
 from the State Paper Office, the Rolls Hotise, and the British 
 Museum. 
 
 LXII. (See p. 49.) 
 
 Lxin. 
 
 Charles I. in 1646. Letters of King Charles the 
 First to Queen Henrietta Maria. Edited by John 
 Bruce, Esq., E.S.A., Dir. Camd. Soc. 1856. 
 Pp. xxxi. 104. 
 
 Seventy-one letters, nearly all of them from Charles to his Queen, 
 Vfritten in that fatal year when he trusted himself to the Scots army. 
 They are from a cppy-book which accidentally came into the pos- 
 session of Mr. Joseph Conway Witton, of Bath, early in 1855 ; and 
 which is supposed to have been a transcript from a book into which 
 the letters, originally written in cypher, were transcribed for the 
 Queen's use. A few of the letters had been previously published 
 from the King's draft copies in Clarendon's State Papers. Mr. Bruce's 
 Introduction is a luminous essay on the unfortunate King and his 
 treacherous politics. " The great lesson to be deduced from this 
 book is, that they who set themselves in opposition to Charles in his 
 lifetime judged accurately of his character, and of the dangers to 
 which the country was exposed under his government." It is further 
 clear from these letters that the fortunes of England were laid with 
 the most abject humility at the feet of the exiled Queen. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 55 
 
 LXIV. 
 
 An English Clironicle of the reigns of E-ichard II., 
 Henry IV., Henry V., and Henry VI., written 
 before the year 1471 ; with an Appendix, con- 
 taining the 18th and 19th years of Richard II., 
 and the Parliament at Bury St. Edmund's 25th 
 Henry VI . ; and Supplementary Additions from 
 the Cotton. MS. Chronicle called " Eulogium." 
 Edited by the Rev. John Silvester Davies, 
 M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford. 1856. 
 
 The Clironicle from which Mr. Davies has most diligently edited 
 this volume, under the experienced advice of Sir Frederic Madden, 
 and of Mr. Macray of the Bodleian Library, author of the Manual 
 of British Historians, is a copy of that most prevalent form of our 
 English annals called the Brut Chronicle,* which was successively 
 in the possession of the old chroniclers Stowe and Speed (both of 
 whose annotations it contains), and which had descended from the 
 latter to the Editor's father, John Speed Davies, Esq. The Editor 
 Las carefully specified at page x. of his Preface those portions of this 
 Chronicle which are " new," or peculiar to itself. The two first 
 articles of the Appendix, mentioned in the title-page, are from a 
 Chronicle written in 1448 by Eichard Fox of St. Alban's, now in 
 the Duke of Bedford's library at Woburn. The supplementary 
 extracts from the Eulogium\ are added to supply portions deficient 
 in the text, it having been found that the English compiler had 
 obtained his materials very considerably by translation from that 
 Latin chronicle (MS. Cotton. Galba, E. vii.) 
 
 * On the histot7 of the Brut Chronicle there is an interesting paper by Sir 
 Frederic Madden commencing the Second Series of Notes and Queries in 1856. 
 
 t Now edited by Frank Soott Haydon, Esq. B.A., under the direction of the 
 Master of the Rolls. 
 
56 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP THE 
 
 LXV. 
 
 The Knights Hospitallers in England : being the 
 K-eport of Prior- Philip de Thame to the Grand 
 Master Elyan de Yillanova for.A.D. 1338. Edited 
 by the Rev. Lambert B. Larking, M.A., with 
 an Historical Introduction by John MiTCHEiiL 
 Kemble, M.A. 1857. Pp. Ixxii. 301. 
 
 The original of this record, an Extent of the Hospitallers' lands 
 in England, is in the Public Library at Valetta, in Malta, and was 
 first examined by Mr. Larking when passing the winter of 1838-9 
 in that island for the benefit of his health. The able Introduction 
 by Mr. Kemble, occupying pp. xii.-lxxii. contains a very complete 
 analysis of the whole document. The indexes also are particularly 
 copious. 
 
 LXVI. 
 
 Diary of John E-ous, Incumbent of Santon Down- 
 ham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642. Edited by 
 Mart Anne Everett Green, Author of " Lives 
 of the Princesses of England," Editor of "Letters 
 of Hoyal and Illustrious Ladies." 1856. Pp. 
 xii. 143. 
 
 A Diary in which public and private events are intermixed and 
 interspersed with some remarkable political poetry. The writer was 
 nephew to Sir Thomas Rous of Dennington, ancestor of the Earls of 
 Stradbroke. The MS. was in the possession of Mr. Dawson Turner. 
 
•WORKS or THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 67 
 
 LXVII. 
 
 Trevelyan Papers prior to A.D. 1558. Edited by 
 J. Payne" OoiiLiEE, Esq. 1857. Pp. ix. 219. 
 
 Consisting botli of papers of miscellaneous character -preserved in 
 the archives of the Trevelyan family, and of documents relating to 
 that family derived from the public records. Towards the end are 
 considerable extracts from two volumes of the Accounts of Bryan 
 Tuke esquire, treasurer of the chamber of Henry VIII., and from a 
 similar Account of Sir William Cavendish, treasurer of the chamber 
 to Edward VI. From the last, considerable extracts are also made 
 by Mr. John Gough Nichols in illustration of " The Literary Remains 
 of King Edward VI." printed for the Eoxburghe Club. All these 
 three valuable volumes have been presented by Sir Walter Trevelyan 
 to the Department of Public Eecords. 
 
 A second volume of Trevelyan Papers is partly printed. (1862.) 
 
 Lxvm. 
 
 Journal of the Very Rev. Rowland Davies, LL.D., 
 Dean of Ross, (and afterwards Dean of Cork,) 
 from Marcli 8, 1688-9, to September 29, 1690. 
 Edited, with Notes, and an Appendix, and some 
 account of the Author and his Eamily, by 
 Richard Caulpield, B.A., Member of the 
 Society of Antiquaries of Normandy, &c. 1857. 
 Pp. xiv. 188. 
 
 This Journal relates to a short but busy period of the writer's 
 life, during which he was chiefly resident in England in consequence 
 of the temporary supremacy of the party of James 11. in Ireland, 
 
58 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 sojourning partly in London, and for some months as a curate at 
 Yarmouth in Norfolk. In the latter part he is following the campaign 
 in Ireland, including the battle of the Boyne, the siege of Limerick, 
 &c. It was printed from a transcript in the possession of his great- 
 great-grandson Rowland Davies, Esq. of Cork, the original MS. 
 being lost or mislaid. 
 
 N.B. Two leaves of this work, being pp. *121-124*, and intended 
 to foUow p. 120, were, together with a page of Index relating to 
 them, issued to the Members of the Society with the following 
 Publication, 
 
 LXIX. 
 
 The Domesday of St. Paul's of the year M.CO.XXII. ; 
 or, E-egistrum de Visitatione Maneriorum per 
 E/obertum Decanum ; and other original Docu- 
 ments relating to the Manors and Churches 
 belonging to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's 
 London in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. 
 With an Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations, 
 by William Haxe Hale, M.A., Archdeacon of 
 London. 1858. Pp. xvii. cxxxvii. 211. 
 
 The principal document of this volume resembles the Domesday 
 book of the royal exchequer, but amplified into a full enumeration 
 of the tenants and their lands. It is the book marked K in the archives 
 of St. Paul's, which is inscribed with the word DOMESDEYE on its 
 outside cover. A fragment of the earlier Domesday of Bishop Ralph 
 de Diceto is added from the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian Library, 
 as well as several other inquisitions and rentals of various dates 
 from the records of the Dean and Chapter. The Editor in his 
 Introduction has minutely commented upon their contents. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 59 
 
 A similar volume by the same Editor relating to the Church of 
 Worcester is one of the works of the Camden Society now in the 
 press. (1862.) 
 
 LXX. 
 
 Liber Pamelicus of Sir James Whitelockb, a Judge 
 of the Court of King's Bench in the Reign of 
 James I. and Charles I., now first published from 
 the original Manuscript. Edited by John Brttce, 
 Esq., V.P.S.A. 1858. Pp. xx. 131. 
 
 Sir James was the father of Bulstrode Whitelocke, author of the 
 Historical Memorials, and of the Journal of his Swedish Embassy, 
 re-edited by Henry Reeve, Esq., F.S.A., 1855. He was himself the 
 writer of several treatises included in Heame's Curious Discourses. 
 The present composition relates chiefly to his personal and family 
 history, and to that of his legal contemporaries, of whom some very 
 interesting characters and anecdotes are given. It is printed from 
 the autograph manuscript in the possession of a descendant. 
 
 Lxn. 
 
 Savile Correspondence. Letters to and from Henry 
 Savile, Esq., Envoy at Paris, and Vice-Chamber- 
 lain to Charles II. and James II., including 
 Letters from his brother George Marquess of 
 Halifax. Printed from a Manuscript belonging 
 
60 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 to Ms Grace the Duke of Devonshire, and from 
 originals ia her Majesty's State Paper Office. 
 Edited hy William Dubhant Coopee, P.S.A., 
 Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts 
 Historical Society. 1858. Pp. xxiv. 316. 
 
 The introduction contains a memoir and pedigree of the family 
 of Savile. The title-page fully explains the general contents of the 
 book, the date of the letters ranging from 1661 to 1689. 
 
 Lxxn. 
 
 The Eomance of Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of 
 Dammartin. By Philippe de Beimes, a Trou- 
 vfere of the Thirteenth Century. Edited, from 
 the unique MS. in the Imperial Library at Paris, 
 by M. Le Boitx de Linct. 1858. Pp. xxvii. 
 214. 
 
 Philippe de Eeimes was the author of two metrical romances in 
 French, both preserved in the same volume; of which the other, 
 entitled the Roman de la Mandkine, was edited by M. Francisque 
 Michel for the Bannatyne Club in 1840. " The poem of Blonde of 
 Oxford and Jean of Dammartin belongs to none of what are called 
 the cycles of medieval romance, but it is a simple narrative of 
 familiar incidents such as belonged in the thirteenth century to 
 everyday life; and it is a most interesting picture of medieval 
 manners, equally vivid and minute.'' The substance of the story is 
 given in the Introduction. 
 
WOKK.S or THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 61 
 
 LXXIII. 
 
 The Camden Miscellany. Volume the Fourth. 
 1859. 
 
 This Volume contains, — 
 
 I. A London Chronicle during the Reigns of Henry 
 the Seventh and Henry the Eighth. Edited, from 
 the original MS. in the Cottonian Library of the 
 British Museum, by Clakence Hopper. 1859. 
 Pp. 21. 
 
 From tlie MS. Cotton. Vespasian A. xxv. Commencing in 1500 
 and extending to 1545. 
 
 II. The Expenses of the Judges of Assize riding the 
 Western and Oxford Circuits, temp. Elizabeth, 
 1596-1601. Edited, from the MS. Account-book 
 of Thomas Wahnysley, one of the Justices of the 
 Common Pleas, by William Dtjrkant Coopee, 
 P.S.A. 1858. Pp. 60. 
 
 The MS., which came from papers belonging to the family of Lord 
 Petre, descendants of Mr. Justice Wahnysley, was lent to the Editor 
 by Mr. Wm. Harper, of Bury, Lane. Besides the expenses of the 
 Judges, it contains lists of the numerous presents that were made of 
 provisions for their table, and of the places and persons which 
 entertained them. 
 
 III. The Skryveners' Play, The Incredulity of St. 
 Thomas. Prom a Manuscript in the possession 
 of John Sykes, Esq., M.D., of Doncaster. Edited 
 by J. Patne Collieu, P.S.A. 1859. Pp. 18. 
 
 This is one of the fifty-seTen Pageants of the great Corpus-Christi 
 Play at York ; of which the perfect series (formerly in the hands of 
 
62 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 Thoresby, Horace Walpole, and Mr. Heywood Bright,) is now locked 
 up in the inaccessible collection of Lord Ashbumham.* " The 
 manuscript was doubtless the very prompt-book used by the person 
 denominated Book-holder, whose duty it was to watch and assist 
 the hesitating performers in the delivery of their parts." It appears 
 to have been preserved in the city archives of York, from which it 
 was edited (very inaccurately) by Mr. J. Croft, F.S.A., in his 
 Excerpta Antiqua, 1797. Having wandered into private hands, it 
 has been presented by Dr. Sykes (since the printing of this edition) 
 to the Literary and Philosophical Institution of York. 
 
 IV. Th.e Childe of Bristowe, a Poem by John 
 Ltdgatb. Edited, from the original MS. in the 
 British Museum, by OiiAHENCE Hoppeb. 1869. 
 Pp. 28. 
 
 A legendary tale of a son making restitution for the extortions of 
 a usurious father, from the Harl. MS. 2382. A version of the same 
 story occurring in the Cambridge University MS. Ff. ii. 38, was 
 edited by Mr. J. O. Halliwell in a Collection of Early English Poetry, 
 1846, 8vo. See the Thornton Romances, (Camden Society, 1844,) 
 p. xli. 
 
 V. Sir Edward Lake's Account of his Interviews 
 with Charles I. on being created a Baronet, and 
 receiving an Augmentation to his Arms. Edited 
 by T. P. Langmead, Esq. 1858. Pp. 20. 
 
 Dr. Edward Lake, the King's Advocate-general for Ireland, having 
 been driven from that kingdom by the rebels, joined the royal army, 
 and received sixteen wounds in the battle of Edgehill. On the first 
 
 * Three sets of English miraole-plays have been published: that of Widkirk, 
 under the title of the Towneley Mysteries, by the Surtees Society in 1836 ; those of 
 Coventry and Chester by the Shakespeare Society in 1841 and 1843-7. Mr. Edward 
 Towneley had, still earlier, in 1822, presented to the Roxburghe Club "Judicium, 
 a Pageant. Extracted from the Towneley MS. of Ancient Mysteries." The first 
 publication of the Abbotsford Club was "Ancient Mysteries," from the Digby MS. 
 1835; and its second "The Weavers' Pageant," 1836. 
 
WORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 63 
 
 anniversary of that battle he had an interview with the King at 
 Oxford, and in the following summer another at Worcester. In 
 memory of his wounds a part of his armorial augmentation was a 
 banner charged with a cross between sixteen shields, and for a crest, 
 "a chevalier in a fighting posture, his left arm hanging down useless, 
 and holding a bridle in his teeth, his scarf red, his sword, face, 
 arms, and horse cruentated." 
 
 VI. The Letters of Pope to Atterbury, wten in the 
 Tower of London. Edited by John Gough 
 Nichols, P.S.A. 1859. Pp. 22. 
 
 These letters, from an old transcript communicated by George 
 Wentworth, Esq., of WooUey Park, Yorkshire, (and of which a cor- 
 responding transcript exists among Cole's MSS. in the British 
 Museum,) are apparently in the state in which they were written, 
 differing in some remarkable respects from the form in which they 
 were afterwards published by their author, and have hitherto been 
 printed. 
 
 VII. Supplementary Note to the Discovery of the 
 Jesuits' College at Olerkenwell in March 1627-8 : 
 printed in the Second Volume of the Camden 
 Miscellany. By John Goitgh Nichols, E.S.A. 
 1859. Pp. 10. 
 
 (See before, under No. LV.) 
 
 LXXIV. 
 
 Diary of the Marches of the Hoyal Army during the 
 great Civil War; kept by Richard Stmonds. 
 Now first published from the original MS. in the 
 
64 DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 Britisli Museum. Edited by Ohaeles Edward 
 Long, M.A. Trin. Coll. Cambridge. 1859. Pp. 
 xiy. 296. 
 
 This Diary extends from April 10, 1644, to Feb. 11, 1645-6. It 
 is contained in four pocket volumes, which, after having been dis- 
 persed, are now reassembled in the British Museum. Though valu- 
 able for its historical passages, its main contents are church-notes 
 and other heraldic memoranda. Extracts have been formerly pub- 
 lished in Nichols's History of Leicestershire, Hutchins's History of 
 Dorsetshire, and other topographical works. 
 
 The author, like many others of his family, held the office of one 
 of the oursitors in Chancery; but he became one of the troop of 
 horse commanded by Lord Bernard Stuart (created Earl of Lich- 
 field^ in the King's army. He has left several other manuscript 
 volumes, as well of his notes made in England as during his travels 
 in Eranoe and Italy, many of which are now in the British Museum, 
 and are described by Mr. Long in his Preface ; also three volumes 
 of collections for the county of Essex, now in the library of the 
 College of Arms. 
 
 LXXV. 
 
 Origiaal Papers illustratire of the Life and Writings 
 of John Milton, including sixteen Letters of State 
 written by him, now first published from MSS. in 
 the State Paper Office. With an Appendix of 
 Documents relating to his connection with the 
 Powell famUy. Collected and edited, with the 
 permission of the Master of the Rolls, by 
 W. Douglas Hamilton, of H. M. State Paper 
 Office, and University College, London, author of 
 
WORKS or THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 65 
 
 " Outlines of the Constitutional History of 
 England," &c. 1859. Pp. viii. 139. 
 
 The " letters of state " are in Latin, written by Milton during the 
 Commonwealth, in his capacity of Secretary for Foreign Tongues. 
 These form only a small portion of the documents industriously col- 
 lected and very carefully edited in this volume. 
 
 LXXVI. 
 
 Letters of George Lord Oarew to Sir Thomas E,oe, 
 Amhassador to the Court of the Great Mogul, 
 1615-1617. Edited by John Maclean, E.S.A., 
 Keeper of the Records of H. M. Ordnance in the 
 Tower of London, Editor of the Life of Sir Peter 
 Carew, Knt. 1860. Pp. xiv. 160. 
 
 George Lord Carew, afterwards Earl of Totnes, was when he 
 wrote these letters Master of the Ordnance and Vicechamberlain to 
 the Queen of James I. His friend Sir Thomas Eoe was gone on a 
 mission to the Great Mogul, at the expense of the East India Com- 
 pany. Eoe's letters and negotiations during a subsequent embassy to 
 the same potentate during the years 1621-28 were edited in 1740 in 
 a folio volume by the historian Carte, under the patronage of the 
 Society for the Encouragement of Learning. The letters now pub- 
 lished were also in Carte's possession, and how they came into the 
 State Paper Office, where they are now preserved, has not been 
 explained. Carte accurately described them as " a journal of 
 occurrences, as well in England as in other parts of Europe, from 
 1613 to 1617, containing short memorials of fact, like Camden's 
 summary of King James's reign." They are in reality News Letters, 
 and afford an example that men in very eminent positions did not 
 disdain that species of composition, before printed news-papers were 
 yet issued. In several places (pp. 54, 80, 139,) Carew terms them 
 
66 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
 
 his gazettes. They were written in the way of a journal, as inci- 
 dents occurred, or foreign intelligence arrived, and transmitted to 
 the writer's very distant correspondent only at four intervals, in 
 April 1615, and in JFanuary of the three following years. Sir 
 Thomas Eoe sent a "journall" in return (p. 47). 
 
 Lxxvn. 
 
 Narratives of the Days of the Reformation, chiefly 
 from the Manuscripts of John Eoxe the Martyr- 
 ologist, with two Contemporary Biographies of 
 Archbishop Cranmer. Edited by John Gough 
 Nichols, P.S.A. 1859. Pp. xxviii. 366. 
 
 The contents of this volume are selected from such of the MSS. 
 of Foxe's collections now in the British Museum as were not used 
 by himself in the Book of Martyrs, and were only pubKshed imper- 
 fectly in the works of Strype. The Anecdotes of archbishop Cranmer, 
 by his secretary Ealph Morice, are from the original MS. now in 
 Corpus Christi college library at Cambridge. The other principal 
 articles in this volume are, — The Reminiscences of John Louth, 
 Archdeacon of Nottingham; The Autobiography of Thomas Han- 
 cock, minister of Poole ; The Defence of Thomas Thackham, minister 
 of Eeading, in regard to his conduct toward Julins Palmer ; The 
 Autobiographical Anecdotes of Edward Underhill, Gentleman Pen- 
 sioner, "the hot Gospeller"; The Troubles of Thomas Mowntayne, 
 Eector of St. Michael Tower-Eyal, related by himself; a brief 
 Chronicle by a monk of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, extending from 
 1532 to 1538; and a Summary of Ecclesiastical Events in the year 
 1554. 
 
 LXXVIII. 
 
 Correspondence of King James VI. of Scotland with 
 Sir Robert Cecil and others in England, during 
 
WOEK8 OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 67 
 
 the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; with an Appendix 
 containing papers illustrative of Transactions 
 between King James and Robert Earl of Essex, 
 Principally published for the first time from 
 Manuscripts of the Most Noble the Marquis of 
 Salisbury preserved at Hatfield. Edited by John 
 Bruce, Esq., E.S.A. 1861. 
 
 This very essential contribution to tlie history of the period 
 originated in two purchases, one made by the Camden Society, and 
 the other by the Editor, of transcripts taken many years ago of 
 some of the letters now published. By the liberality of the Marquis 
 of Salisbury the defects of those transcripts were remedied, and the 
 accuracy and completeness of the work was insured. It forms the 
 more important portion of the same correspondence of which the 
 letters written by or to Lord Henry Howard were edited by Lord 
 Hailes in a small volume, under the title of " The Secret Correspon- 
 dence of Sir Robert Cecil with James VI. King of Scotland," printed 
 at Edinbxirgh in 1766. 
 
 LXXIX. 
 
 Letters written by John Chamberlain during the 
 Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Edited from the 
 Originals by Sabah Williams. 1861. Pp. xii. 
 
 188. 
 
 Mr. John Chamberlain is one of the best known of the writers of 
 news-letters in the days in which he lived. He is full of intelligence 
 both natural and acquired, untired both in gathering and communi- 
 cating; with an easy style, much classical elegance, and unflagging 
 liveliness and spirit. His letters have never yet been edited as they 
 ought to be: though many of them have appeared in Nichols's Pro- 
 
68 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
 
 gresses of Elizabeth and James, and in " The Court and Times of 
 King James I." as well as elsewhere. The present volume contains 
 the earlier portion of his letters addressed to Mr. Carleton (after- 
 wards Lord Viscount Dorchester,) in the reign of Elizabeth. 
 
 His personal history has for the first time been developed in the 
 Preface. He was the son of a London alderman, whose interesting 
 Will, lately discovered by Mr. Bruce, is destined for the next volume 
 of the Camden Miscellany. 
 
 Miss Williams, the industrious and amiable Editor of this volume, 
 prematurely died on the eve of its publication. 
 
 LXXX. 
 
 Proceedings principally in the County of Kent, 
 in connection with tlie Parliaments called in 
 1640, and especially with the Committee of 
 Religion appointed in that year. Edited hy the 
 Rev. Lambert B. Larking, M.A. from the col- 
 lections of Sir Edward Dering, Bart. 1626-1644. 
 With a Preface by John Bbtjce, Esq. E.S.A. 1861. 
 Pp. K. 248. 
 
 This volume contains, 1. Various documents, thirty-five in num- 
 ber, connected with the Parliaments of 1640; 2. Sir Edward 
 Bering's notes made as chairman of the Committee of Religion ; 3. 
 Petitions against the Clergy from places in Kent, with their answers 
 and other papers relating thereto (in number seventy). The in- 
 formation conveyed is of much importance in reference to the state 
 of the Church, and the administration of archbishop Laud. The 
 preface by Mr. Bruce contains a very interesting sketch of the 
 domestic and public career of Sir Edward Bering, already well 
 known both as a parliamentary orator and an antiquary. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 The Roman Numerals, which are attached to the names of Authors and Editors, 
 refer to the numbers of the Society's Volumes : the Arabic Figures refer to the pages 
 of the present Catalogue. The entries in Italic will conduct the reader to the 
 Classified List of Works. 
 
 Aberconway Register and Chronicle, 30 
 
 Abuses against the Commonwealth, 52 
 
 Akebhan, John Yonge, LII. 
 
 Alberi, Eugenic, 30 
 
 Aluack, Richard, LXI. 1 
 
 Ambassadors, Venetian and French, 30 
 
 Amyot, Thomas, iii. 
 
 Ancren Riwle, 48 
 
 Anecdotes and Traditions, 4 
 
 Anne, Princess (afterwards Queen) , 32 
 
 Arnold's Chronicle, 43 
 
 Ashbufnham, Lord, 62 
 
 Ashmole, Ellas, 17 
 
 Atterbury, Bishop, letters of Pope to, 63 
 
 Atthill, Rev. William, xxxviii. 
 
 Aubrey, John, v. 3 
 
 A0NGIER, Gr. J. XXTIII. 
 
 Bale, John, ii. 
 
 Ballyally Castle, Siege of, 12 
 
 Barbaro, Daniele, 30 
 
 Barons' Wars, Chronicle of the, 13 
 
 Baynard's Castle, 53 
 
 Biographical Poems, 52 
 
 Black, W. H. 25 
 
 Bliss, Rev. Dr. iii. 
 
 Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dam- 
 martin, romance of, 60 
 
 Brabant, John of, expenses of, 44 
 
 BrakeloMd, Josceline de, xiii. 
 
 Brampton, Thomas, 52 
 
 Bramston, Sir John, xxix. 
 
 Beatbrooke, Lord, xxxii. 
 
 Brewer, Rev. J. S. 43 
 
 Bruce, John, i. vii. xxvii. xxxi. xlti. 
 Preface to XLVII. LVI. LXiii. LXX. 
 Lxxviii. Preface to lxxx 
 
 Brut Chronicle, the, 55 
 
 Bull of Pope Innocent VIII. 31 
 
 Burnet, bishop, 19, 22 
 
 BuRTT, Joseph, LV. 1 
 
 Bury St. Edmund's, Brakelond's Chro- 
 nicle of, 12 ; Wills and Inventories, 39 
 
 G 
 
 Calais, Chronicle of, 28 
 
 Camden, William, xliii. Pp. 6, 19 
 
 Canterbury, Chronicle by a monk of, 66 
 
 Cantilupe, bishop, canonisation of, 50 
 
 Carlaverock, the Siege of, 23 
 
 Carleton, Dudley, (Lord Dorchester,) 68 
 
 Carte, 65 
 
 Carew's Letters, 65 
 
 Cartwright, bishop Thomas, xxii. 
 
 Caulpield, Richard, Lxviii. 
 
 Cavendish, Sir William, 57 
 
 Caxton the printer, 31 
 
 Cecil, Sir Robert, Secret Correspondence 
 with James VI. 66 
 
 Chamberlain's Letters, 67 
 
 Charles I. his journey into Spain, 47 ; 
 Letters to Queen Henrietta Maria in 
 1646, 54 ; Interviews with Sir Edw, 
 Lake, 62 
 
 Charles II. anecdotes of, 33 ; Secret 
 Services, 41 
 
 Charles, Nicholas, xliii. 
 
 Chester miracle-plays, 62 
 
 Cholmley, William, LV. 3 
 
 Chronicles and Histories, ix. 
 
 " Chronicles of the White Rose," 1, 8 
 
 Churchyard's Civill Wars in the Nether- 
 lands, 32 
 
 Clarendon's State Papers, 54 
 
 Clerkenwell, Jesuits' College in, 45 
 
 Cloth of Gold, Field of, 18 
 
 Coke, Sir John, LV, 4 
 
 Collet, John, v. 3 
 
 Collier, J. Payne, ii. xii. xxxix. 3. 
 LXI. 2. Lxvii. Lxxiii. 3. Fage 34 
 
 Commonwealth, Abuses against the, 52 
 
 CONINGSBY, Sir Thomas, xxxix. iv. 
 
 Cooper, Mr. Purton, iii. 
 
 Cooper, W. D. lv. 5. lxxi. lxxiii. 2 
 
 Corpus Christi play, 61 
 
 Coronation of Henry VII. 18; of Queen 
 Mary, ibid. 
 
INDEX, 
 
 Correspondence, see Letters 
 
 Covenanters, the Scotlsb, 47 
 
 Coventry miracle -plays, 62 
 
 Cramer, Rev. Dr. xvii. 
 
 Cranmer, archbishop, biographies of, 66 
 
 Cbokeb, T. Crofton, xiv. 
 
 CuFFE, Maurice, xiv. 1 
 
 Daties, Rev. Rowland, lxviii. 
 
 Dee, Dr. John, xix. 
 
 Dering, Sir Edward, lxxx 
 
 Devonshire, Duke of, 2, 60 
 
 Dialects: of Lancashire, 15 ; of the West 
 of England, 48. iSee Glossaries 
 
 Diaries, vi. 
 
 Documents (Historical) x. 
 
 Dodsworth, Roger, 4 
 
 Domesday of St. Paul's, 58 
 
 Durham, state of the county in 1629, 53 
 
 Dudley's Conspiracy, 47 
 
 Dyce, Rev. Alexander, XI. 
 
 Ecclesiastical History, x. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Documents, 6 
 
 Edward IV. Warkworth's Chronicle of, 
 8 ; Restoration of, 1 : Polydore Vergil's 
 history, 23 
 
 Edward V. Grants, etc. from the Crown, 
 50; history of bis reign, 51 
 
 Edward VI. Literary Remains of, 57. 
 See Macbyn's Diary and Grey Friars' 
 Chronicle 
 
 Egerton Papers, 11 
 
 Egerton, Lord Chancellor, 11 
 
 Egerton, Lord Francis, 12 
 
 Egerton, Sir Philip, xxxix. 5, XL. 
 
 Elder, John, lxviii. 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen, Hayward's Four Years 
 of, 6 ; Letters to James VI. 36 ; inter- 
 views with Dr. Dee, 16; her expenses 
 as Princess, 44; poem on, 52 
 
 EUesmere, Lord, see Egerton 
 
 Elliott, G. P. xxxix. 6. lt. 6 
 
 Ellis, Sir Henry, ix. xxiii. xxix. 
 
 XXXVI. xxxix. 1. XLIII. XLIV. LI. 
 
 4 (bis), 29 (bis) 
 
 England, described, temp. Hen. VIII. 
 15; Venetian Relation of, 29; Twys- 
 den'e Considerations upon the Govern- 
 ment of, 36; Commercial affairs in 
 1553, 45; Abuses against the Common- 
 wealth in 1 629, 52 
 Essex, Norden's Description of, 7 
 Essex, Henry of, his treason and fate, 12 
 ^— Robert Earl of, 32; poem on, 62; 
 his transactions with James VI. 67 
 
 Walter Earl of, poem on, 52 
 
 Eulogium 55 
 
 FiDLKR, Rev. Isaac, xvii. 
 
 Fitton, mistress Anne, 11 
 
 FitzAylwin first Mayor of London, his 
 
 representatives, 28 
 Fleetwood, George, xxxix. 5 
 Fleetwood, Recorder, 1 
 Fleming, Abraham, 1 
 Forman, Dr. Simon, papers of, 17 
 Fox, Richard, Chronicle of, 55 
 Foxe, John, his unpublished papers, 66 
 French Ambassadors to England, 30 
 Froude, 34, 45 
 Funerals, 33, 34 
 
 GaLFRIDUS GrEAMMATICnS, XXV. LIT. 
 
 Gardiner, S. R. lxxxi. 
 
 Gaveston, Piers, his reputed tomb, 47 
 
 de Ghent, bishop Simon, 48 
 
 Glossaries: to Poem on Richard II. 3; 
 to Romances in the Lancashire dialect, 
 16; to Wicliffe's Apology for Lollard 
 doctrines, 17; to the Ancren Riwle, 
 48; to Household Roll of Bishop Swin- 
 field, 493; to Inventories, 53. There 
 are also distinct Glossarial Indexes to 
 Macbyn's Diary; to Grants, &c. of 
 Edward V. ; and to the Narratives of 
 Days of the Reformation. See Promp- 
 torium 
 
 Golias (his Latin Poetry), 14 
 
 Green, Mrs. M. A. E. lxvi. 22 
 
 Grey op Wilton, Arthur Lord, XL. 
 
 Grey of Wilton, William lord, services, 33 
 
 Grey Friars' Chronicle, 42 
 
 Guisnes, map of, 33 
 
 Gustavus Adolphus, death of, 32 
 
 Gyso, bishop. Till. 1 
 
 Hailes, Lord, 67 
 
 Hale, Archdeacon, LXIX. 
 
 Halifax, George Marq. of, his letters, 59 
 
 HaLLIWELL, J. O. X. XT. XIX. XXX. 
 
 51 note, 62 
 
 Hamilton, W. Douglas, lxxt. 
 
 Hampden, John, 47 
 
 Hancock, Thomas, Autobiography of, 66 
 
 Harley, Lady Brilliana, letters of, 49 
 
 Hartshome, Rev. C. H. 25 
 
 HaydoD, F. S. 55 
 
 Hayward, Sir John, tii. 
 
 Hearne's Curious Discourses, 59 
 
 Henry IV. Chronicle of, 56 
 
 Henry V. Chronicle of, 65 
 
 Henry VI. Chronicle of, 56 ; Polydore 
 Vergil's History of, 23 ; his capture at 
 Waddington hall, 9 
 
 Henry VII. bull for his marriage, 31 
 
 Hereford, cathedral church of, 50 
 
 Hereford, Walter Viscount, poem on, 62 
 
 Hisiwy, see Chronicles, Documents, Eccle- 
 siastical History, Letters, and Poetry. 
 
 Holinshed, 33 
 
INDEX, 
 
 Holmes, John, xxxvii. 
 Household, Royal : documents temp. 
 Hen. VIII. 18 ; of Henry YIII. and 
 Edward VI. 57 
 Household expenses of John of Brahant, 
 and Henry and Thomas of Lancaster, 
 44; of the Princess Elizabeth, i6i£^./ 
 of Richard de Swinfield, bishop of 
 Hereford, 49; of Judges of Assize, 61 
 
 Hopper, Clarence, Lxxiii. 1, 4 
 
 Howard, Lord Henry, 67 
 
 Hungerford, Agnes lady, 43 
 
 HuMTEB, Rev. Joseph, Till. XXII. 
 
 Huntingdonshire Visitation, 35 
 
 Inventories : of the wardrobes, &c. of the 
 Duke of Richmond and Katharine 
 Princess Dowager, 53. See Wills. 
 
 Ireland, contests in, 12, 58 
 
 James II. Secret Services, 41 ; his struggle 
 in Ireland, 12, 58 
 
 James VI. Letters of, 36, QQ 
 
 Jane, Chronicle of Queen, 38 
 
 Jebdan, William, xxi. xxxiii. 
 
 Jerome, Saint, 40 
 
 Jesuits' College in Clerkenwell, 45 
 
 Johan, King, Bale's play of, 2 
 
 Judges of Assize, expenses of, 61 
 
 Kelly, Charles, xiv. 2 
 
 Kelly, Denis Henry, 13 
 
 Kemble, J. M. XLV. Preface to Lxv. 
 
 Kemp's Nine dales' Wonder, 9 
 
 Kent, Proceedings in, 1642-6, 52 
 
 1640, 68 
 
 Knights Hospitallers in England, 56 
 
 Kyteler, Dame Alice, 20 
 
 Laing, David, 25 
 
 Lake, Dr. Edward, xxxix. 6 
 
 Lake, Sir Edward, Lxxiii. 5 
 
 Lambeth, the Wills at, 39 
 
 Lancashire dialects, 15 
 
 Lancaster, Henry and Thomas of, their 
 household expenses, 44 
 
 Langmead, T. p. LXXIII. 5 
 
 Langtoft, Peter, vi. 
 
 Larking, Ret. L B. lxt. lxxx. P. 36 
 
 Laud, Archbishop, 15, 68 
 
 Lea, Rowland, xltiii. 
 
 Leland, John, 8 
 
 Le Roux de Linct, M. lxxii. 
 
 Lestrange, Sir Nicholas, TI. 
 
 Letters, viii. 
 
 Lewis, Rev. T. T. Lvm. 
 
 Leycester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, Cor- 
 respondence from the Low Coun- 
 tries, 22 
 
 Library, of Dr. Dee, 16; of Richard 
 Smyth, 36 
 
 Lincolnshire Rebellion in 1470, 31 
 
 Literary Men, Letters of, 19 
 
 Lollard Doctrines, Apology for, 1 7 
 London Chronicles, -42, 61 ; the French 
 Chronicle of , 23 ; De Antiquis Legibus 
 Liber, 27; Maohyn's Diary, 34 
 Long, C. E. lxxit. 
 Louth, John, reminiscences of, 66 
 Low Countries, government of the, 22 
 Lutzen, battle of, 32 
 Macartney, Earl, 30 
 Machyn, Henry, XLii. 
 Maclean, John, Lxxvi. 
 Macro, Dr. Cox, 7 
 
 Madden, Sir Fred. lxi. 3. Pp. 16, 25, 55 
 Mailros, Chronicle of, 14 
 Map, or Mapes, Walter, Poetry of, 14 ; 
 
 De Nugis Curialium, 39 
 Mary I. Queen, Chronicle of two years 
 of, 38; see Machyn 's Diary and Grey 
 Friars' Chronicle. 
 Mary, Princess (afterwards Queen Mary 
 
 II.), 32 
 Master of the Rolls, works edited under 
 
 his direction, vi. 3, 5, 43, 55 
 Maydiston, Richard, ill. 
 Maynabd, Sir John, LV. 4 
 Michele, Giovanni, 29, 30 
 Middleham collegiate church, 30 
 Milton, John, his Letters of State, 64 
 Miracles of Simon de Montfort, 14 
 Miracle-plays, 62 
 
 Monasteries, charters of, 7; letters on the 
 suppression of, 21; the Ancren Riwle, 
 48; see St. Edmund's Bury. 
 Montfort, Simon, miracles of, 14 
 Morice, Ralph, anecdotes by, &Q 
 Morrice dance, Kemp's, 10 
 Morton, Rev. James, ltii. 
 Mowntayne, Thomas, troubles of, QQ 
 News-letters, of George Lord Carew, Q5j 
 
 of Mr. John Chamberlain, 67 
 Nieander Nucius, travels of, 16 
 Nichols, John Gough, t. 3. xxxv. 
 xxxix. 2, 4. XLII. xltiii. liii. lt. 4. 
 Lx. LXI. 4. lxxiii. 6, 7. lxxvii. 
 Nicolas, Sir Nicholas H. 23 
 Nine days' Wonder, 10 
 NORDEN, John, IX. 
 
 Norfolk, Thomas Duke of, poem on, 52 
 Norris, Sir John, 32 
 Nucius, Nieander, xtii. 
 Obituary of Richard Smyth, 35 
 O'Callaghan, John, 13 
 Oxford University, 46 
 Palgrave, Sir Francis, 38 
 Palmer, Julins, his story, QQ 
 Paris, Matthew, 13 
 Parliaments of 1640, 66 ; the Long, 25 
 
 bishop Russell's Speeches for 
 
 opening, 51 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Personal Memoirs and Diaries, xii. 
 
 Perth, James Duke of, his letters, 27 
 
 Peterborough, Chronicle of, 37 
 
 Petrarch to Boccaccio, letter of, 16 
 
 Philip prince of Spain, arrival and mar- 
 riage of, 38 
 
 Phillipps, Sir Thomas, 21 
 
 Pilgrimage of Sir Richard Guylforde, 40 ; 
 of Torkington, 41; of Wey, ib. 
 
 Plumpton Correspondence, 3 
 
 Poetry, xiv. 
 
 Pole, Sir Richard, K.G. his family, 47 
 
 Political Songs, 5' 
 
 Political Treatises, ix. 
 
 Polydore Vergil, 23, 28 
 
 Poore, bishop William, 48 
 
 Pope, Alex. Letters to Atterbury, 63 
 
 Potter, Gilbert, Letter to, 38 
 
 Promptorium Parvulorum, 20 
 
 Pynson the printer, 20, 40 
 
 von Raumer, 30 
 
 Reformation, Narratives of the Days of, 66 
 
 DE Reimes, Philippe, Lxxii. 
 
 Relations of England, Italian, 29 
 
 Richard II. poems on, 2 ; Chronicle of, 55 
 
 Richard III. King, 50 ; his foundation at 
 Middleham, 30 
 
 Richmond and Somerset, Henry Fitzroy 
 Duke of, Inventory, Memoir, and Let- 
 ters, 53 
 
 RiSHANGEB, William, xv. 
 
 Ritson, Joseph, 25 
 
 RoBEBis, George, XLi. 
 
 RoBSON, John, XVIII. 
 
 Roe, Sir Thomas, 65 
 
 ROKEwooD, John Gage, xm. 
 
 Rolls of Expenses and Inventories, xi. 
 
 Romances, English, from Mr. Black- 
 burne's MS. 16 ; the Thornton, 25 
 
 French, 60 
 
 Rouen, Siege in 1691, 32 
 
 Rous, John, Lxvi. 
 
 Russell, bishop John, lx. 
 
 St. Alban's, Chronicle of, 13 
 
 St. Edmund's Bury, Brakelond's Chro- 
 nicle of, 12 ; Wills and Inventories, 39 
 
 St. Paul's Domesday and Rentals, 58 
 
 Savile Correspondence, 59 
 
 Secret Services of Charles II. and James 
 IL 41 
 
 Skryveners' Play, the, 61 
 
 Smyth, Richard, xLiv. 
 
 Snetd, Charlotte A. xxxvii. 
 
 Sneyd, Rev. Walter, 30 
 
 Somerset, history of the Bishoprick of, 6 
 
 Sorcery and Magic, 20 
 
 Speed, 55 
 
 Stapleton, Thomas, it. xxxiv. xlvii. 
 
 Stowe, John, 1, 28, 38, 43, 65 
 
 Stbamgfobd, Lord Viscount, lt. 2 
 
 Strype, Rev. John, 34 
 
 Swinfield, Bp. Household Expenses, 49 
 
 Taswell, William, lt. 6 
 
 Thackham, Thomas, his Defence, 66 
 
 Thompson, Sir Peter, 37 
 
 Thoms, W. J. v. lt. 3 
 
 Thornton, Robert, xxx. 
 
 Thornton Romances, 25 
 
 Todd, Rev. Dr. 20 
 
 Tomlins, T. E. 12 
 
 Torkington's Pilgrimage, 41 
 
 Towneley Mysteries, the, 62 
 
 Towneley, P. E. 4 
 
 Trelawny Papers, 46 
 
 Trevelyan Papers, 57 
 
 Tuke, Bryan, 67 
 
 Turbervile, Sir T. French poem on, 23 
 
 Turner, Sharon, 1, 61 
 
 TuKPTN, Richard, xxxv. 
 
 TwYSDEN, Sir Roger, xlt. 
 
 Ttmms, Samuel, XLix. 
 
 Ubaldini, Petrucoio, 30 
 
 Underhill, Edward, 66 
 
 Usher, archbishop, 17 
 
 Valerii ad Rufinum, Dissuasio, &c. 40 
 
 Venetian Ambassadors to England, 30 
 
 Vekgil, Polydore, xxix. xxxTi. 
 
 Verney Papers, 25, 47 
 
 Visitation of Huntingdonshire, 35 
 
 Wanley, Humphrey, 50 
 
 Waekworth, John, x. 
 
 Way, Albert, xxit. lit. 
 
 Webb, Rev. John, Lix. LXii. 
 
 Westminster School, 46 
 
 Wey's Pilgrimage, 41 
 
 Whitelocke, Sir James, Lxx. 
 
 Wickliffe's Apology for the Lollards, 17 
 
 Widkirk miracle-plays, 62 
 
 Williams, Sarah, Lxxix. 
 
 Wills and Inventories, 39 
 
 Witchcraft, 20 
 
 Wood, M. A. E. see Green 
 
 Wool, the trade in, 45 
 
 Worcester cathedral church, 58 
 
 Wright, Thomas, iii. vi. xvi. xxit. 
 
 XXVI. L. 
 
 Wyat, Sir Thomas, Rebellion of, 38 
 Yarmouth, 68 
 YONGE, Walter, XLI. 
 York miracle-plays, 61 
 
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