-1400
Geoffrey
Chaucer,
Maréchal.
Maréchal.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02
1906.
An abridged edition of Caxton's version
was published in 1902, ed. Rawlings, G. R.
Livere de reis de Brittanie, le, et le livere de reis de Engleterre. Ed.
Glover, J. Rolls Series. 1865.
London. Chroniques de (14th cent. ). Aungier, G. J. Camden Soc. 1844.
Marie de France. See vol. 1, pp. 469, etc.
Méon, D. M. Fabliaux et contes des poètes fr. des XI°—XV° siècles (Barbazan's);
new ed. 4 vols. Paris, 1808. Nouveau recueil. 2 vols. Paris, 1823. See
also other works on fabliaux in the bibliography to vol. I, chap. xvii of
the present work.
Michel, F. Chroniques anglo-normandes . . . Xrº and xirº siècles. 3t. Rouen,
1836–40.
Normandy, Narratives of the expulsion of the English from (1449-50), Ed.
Stevenson, J. Rolls Series. 1863.
Peter of Langtoft. See vol. 1, pp. 478, etc.
Psalters, etc. Ed. Michel, F. Oxford, 1860; and Paris, 1876.
Robert de Gretham, Greetham or Greatham (13th cent. ). Compiler of
religious works for the use of lay-folk. See Paris, G. , Litt, du Moyen
Age, $ 152; Meyer, P. , Les MSS Français de Cambridge, Romania,
XXXII, 28.
St Auban, Vie de. Ed. Atkinson, R. 1876.
Samson de Nanteuil. Version of Book of Proverbs. MS Harl. 4388.
Suchier, H. and Birch-Hirschfeld, A. Gesch. der franz. Lit. Leipzig, 1900.
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Chapter XVIII
509
Suchier, H. and Birch-Hirschfeld, A. Reimpredigt. Halle, 1879.
Bibliotheca Normannica. Halle, 1879 ff.
Thaon, P. de. See vol. 1, p. 460.
Twicé, Guillaume de. Art de Vénerie. Eng. trans. MS. Brit. Mus. Cott.
Vesp. B. XII. See also ed. MS Phillipps 8336, Middle Hill Press, 1840.
Wace. See vol. 1, pp. 447, etc.
William the Clerk. For the various works that have passed under the name
of this Anglo-Norman thirteenth century poet see Le Roman des Aven-
tures de Fregas, ed. Michel, F. , Abbotsford Club, Edinburgh, 1841 (an
Arthurian shepherd boy story); Meon's Fabliaux (see above); Le
Bestiaire divin de G. clerc de Normandie, ed. Hippeau, Ch. , Caen, 1852;
Das Tierbuch des norman. Dichters G. le C. , Reinsch, R. , Leipzig, 1892;
Le Besant de Dieu, ed. Martin, E. , Halle, 1869 ('un des plus beaux poèmes
moraux que nous ait laissés le moyen âge, Piaget, A. , in Julleville, t. 11,
182). The Priest and Alison tale would appear to be by another Norman
William
## p. 510 (#528) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
1070 Hereward's rising at Ely. c. 1263-1274 Walter de Merton's
12th cent. ff. Religious plays.
foundations at Malden and Oxford.
1100-1135. King Henry I.
1265-1321 Dante.
1119 P. de Thaun's Comput. A. 1270-1287 Guido delle Colonne.
c. 1130 P. de Thaun's Bestiaire. 1272–1307 King Edward I
1135-1154 King Stephen.
1272? -1305 Sir William Wallace.
c. 1148 Gaimar's History.
1274 Dominicans at Cambridge.
(? ) 1149 Vacarius teaches civil law 1274 Foundation of Merton College,
at Oxford.
Oxford.
1154-1189 King Henry II.
1280-1284 Hugo de Balsham's scho-
f. 1160-1180 Chrétien de Troyes. lars in Cambridge and founda-
1162 St Thomas à Becket, abp of tion of Peterhouse.
Canterbury (murdered, 1170). 1298 Battle of Falkirk.
c. 1167 Canute Song.
c. 1300-1349? Richard Rolle of Ham-
1167 Oxford as a studium generale. pole.
f. 1170 Wace.
1300-1325 Auchinleck MS.
c. 1173 Garnier de Pont Sainte 1300 ? -1352? urence Minot.
Maxence.
1304-1374 Petrarch.
1173-4 Jordan Fantosme.
1305-1377 The Popes at Avignon.
f. 1180 Marie de France.
c. 1307 Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle.
1189-1199 King Richard Cour de 1307-1327 King Edward IL.
Lion.
1313-1375 Boccaccio.
1193-1280 Albertus Magnus.
1314 Battle of Bannockburn.
c. 1196 Ambroise's Hist. de la guerre c. 1320-1395 John Barbour.
sainte.
c. 1320-1384 John Wyclif.
1199-1216 King John.
1325 7-1408 John Gower.
ft. 1200 Layamon.
1326-1412 John Trevisa.
12147-1294 Roger Bacon.
1327-1377 King Edward III.
1216-1272 King Henry III.
1330 Nicole Bozon.
1217 Dominicans settle in Paris. 1330-1335 Guillaume de Deguile-
1221 Dominicans at Oxford.
C.
ville's Pilgrimages.
1224 Franciscans at Oxford and c. 1337-1340? Froissart.
Cambridge.
1338 Vows of the Heron.
c. 1226 Histoire de Guillaume le 1340 ?
-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer,
Maréchal.
c. 1340. Tale of Gamelyn.
f. 1230-1250 Bartholomaeus Angli- ? 1342-1442 Juliana of Norwich.
1349, 1361, 1369 The Black Death.
1230 ? -1298 Jacobus a Voragine. 1349? Death of William Ockham.
c. 1237 Romance of the Rose, Wil- c. 1350 The alliterative revival.
liam of Lorris, continued (c. 1278) c. 1350 Higden's Polychronicon.
by John Clopinel of Meun. 1351 Statute of Labourers.
1253 Death of Robert Grosseteste. 1355 Gray's Scalacronica.
c. 1263 Foundation of Balliol Col- 1360 Death of Richard Fitz Ralph,
lege.
abp of Armagh.
cuis.
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Table of Principal Dates
511
1362 ff. Piers Plowman.
1413 St Andrews recognised as a
1362 Pleadings in law courts to be studium generale.
conducted in English.
1414 The Lollard Act.
1362–1364 Parliaments opened by 1415 The Crowned King.
English speeches.
1415 Battle of Agincourt.
1364 Death of Ranulf Higden.
1415 Council of Constance condemns
c. 1368-c. 1450 Thomas Occleve.
Wyclifite 'errors. '
c. 1370-c. 1450 John Lydgate.
1417 End of the Great Schism.
1370-80 Vernon MS.
1417 Execution of Sir John Old.
1371 Earliest (French) MS of the castle.
Mandeville travels.
1418 Peterhouse library catalogued.
1373-1393 William of Wykeham 1422-1471 King Henry VI.
founds Winchester.
c. 1420 Wyntoun’s Orygynale Cro-
1376 Barbour's Bruce.
nykil.
c. 1376-1377 Death of Sir Hew of 1421-1466 John Paston, letter-
Eglintoun.
writer.
1377-1399 King Richard II.
1421-1428-1491 William Caxton.
1378-1417 The Great Schism. 1422 Yonge's translation of Secreta
1379-1386 William of Wykeham Secretorum.
founds New College, Oxford. c. 1423 The Kingis Quair.
1379–1471 Thomas à Kempis.
c. 1425-c. 1500 Robert Henryson.
1381 Peasants' revolt: Wat Tyler, 1431 François Villon born.
John Ball.
1440-1441 Henry VI founds King's
1382 The earthquake council.
College, Cambridge, and Eton.
C. 1382 Gower's Vox Clamantis. 1442–1479 Sir John Paston, letter-
C. 1383 Chaucer's Troilus and Cri. writer.
seyde.
1450-1620 Period of Middle Scots.
c. 1384-1387 Fordun's Scotichronicon. At. 1450-1482 Richard de Holand.
C. 1386 Chaucer's Legend of Good 1450 MS of some Robin Hood
Women.
ballads.
C. 1387 Canterbury Tales begun.
1450 Jack Cade's rebellion.
1387 Trevisa's translation of Poly- 1450 Glasgow recognised as a str-
chronicon.
dium generale.
1388 Execution of Thomas Usk. c. 1450 Printing at Mainz.
1388 Otterburn (Percy and Dou- 1453 Constantinople captured by the
glas).
Turks.
1390 Confessio Amantis first com- 1455-1471 Wars of the Roses.
pleted.
c. 1455 Pecock's Repressor.
1391–1447 Humphrey duke of Glou- 1456 Sir Gilbert Hay's translations.
cester,
c. 1460 Blind Harry's Wallace.
1391 Chaucer's Astrolabe.
c. 1460-c. 1520 William Dunbar.
1393-1464 John Capgrave.
1461-1483 King Edward IV.
1396 Death of Walter Hylton. c. 1470 Fortescue's De Laudibus Le-
1398 Trevisa's translation of Bar- gum Angliae.
tholomaeus.
1474-5-c. 1530 Stephen Hawes.
1399-1413 King Henry IV.
c. 1475-1522 Gavin Douglas.
1401 The statute De Heretico Com. c. 1475 Recuyell of the Histories of
burendo.
Troy, the first book printed in
1401 Execution of Sawtrey.
the English language.
1401-1402 Jacke Upland.
1476 Caxton press at Westminster.
1403 Stationers' guild incorporated. 1477 Dictes and Sayings of the
1405 Archbishop Sorope's revolt.
Philosophers, the first dated
1406 The English capture Prince book issued in England.
James (James I of Scotland). c 1477 Caxton's edition of the Can.
1413-1422 King Henry V.
terbury Tales.
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512
Principal Dates
Table of of
1480 The first London press (John 1500 King's College, Aberdeen,
Lettou's).
completed.
1483 King Edward V.
1503 Arnold's Chronicle (in which
1483-1485 King Richard III.
was first published The Nut
1483 Caxton's Golden Legend.
Brown Maid).
1484 Caxton's Book of the Knight 1505–1506 Hawes's Passet yme of
of the Tower.
Pleasure.
1485 Battle of Bosworth.
1509-1547 King Henry VIII.
1485-1509 King Henry VII.
1510 Dean Colet founds St Paul's
1485 Sir Thomas Malory's Morte school.
d'Arthur published (finished 1511 The
1511 The Pilgrimage of Sir
1469).
Richard Guilforde (Guildford's
1486–1487 John Mirk's Liber Festi- dates are 1455 ? -1506).
valis published.
1513 Battle of Flodden.
1490 Caxton's Eneydos.
c. 1515 Asloan MS.
1492 Columbus sets sail from 1516 Fabyan's Chronicles printed.
Spain and discovers the West 1519 Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Indies.
1523-1525 Berners's translation of
1494 The Venetian press of Aldus Froissart's Chronicle printed.
begins work.
1532 First collected edition of Chau-
c. 1495 Wynkyn de Worde's edition cer (Thynne's).
of Trevisa's Bartholomaeus. 1568 Bannatyne MS.
1497 Cabot reaches America.
c. 1650 MS of Percy folio.
1498 Execution of Savonarola. 1765 Percy's Reliques printed.
1498 Erasmus comes to Oxford. 1775 Tyrwhitt's edition of Chancer.
## p. 512 (#531) ############################################
ERRATA.
p. 159 1. 36 For 1386 read 1388.
p. 161 1, 36 For Francis read William.
p. 303 l. 29 For Gray read Grey.
p. 368 1. 41 For John read James.
p. 412 1. 27 For Jarrow read Yarrow.
p. 415 1. 25 For Delmey read Deloney.
## p. 512 (#532) ############################################
## p. 513 (#533) ############################################
Alboin, in Confessio Amantis, 151
Alceone, in Confessio Amantis, 151
Aloestis, in The Legend of Good Women,
176; in The Court of Love, 220
Alcock, John, bp of Ely (1430-1500), 323,
355, 358
Alcluyd, 74
Aldingar, Sir, 412
Alexander III (of Scotland), 100, 101,
109
de Villa Dei, 359, 366 ; Doctrinale
Puerorum, 363
Sir William (1567 ? -1640), 95
the Great (Secreta Secretorum), 301;
legends of, 112
Alexander, The Buik of, 104
to Aristotle, The Letter of, 80
Alexandri, Historia, 151
Alexandria, 13, 131
Alfred, king, 341; Boethius, 186
of Beverley (f. 1143), 76
Alithia (Philosophy), in Wyclif's Tria-
logus, 65
Allan-a-Maut, 279
Allison Gross, 414
Alma redemptoris mater, in Chaucer's
The Prioress's Tale, 359
Alne, Robert, Fellow of Peterhouse, 366
Alps, the, 119
Amalekites, 10
Ambroise, Histoire de la Guerre Sainte,
420
Ambrose, St, 265
in The Example of Virtue, 227
America, first English book on, 330
Amours, F. J. , 113, 115, 121, 126
Amphitryon, in Confessio Amantis, 148
Ancren Riwle, the, 300
André of Toulouse, Bernard Andreas or,
Les Douze Triomphes de Henry VII,
223, 471
Andrea, Joannes, 364
Andreae, Antonius, Commentary on Ari-
stotle's Metaphysics, 318
Andrew of Wyntoun (1350 ? -1420 ? ), 100,
103, 104, 117, 121, 122, 129; see also
Orygynale Cronykil, 91, 115, 239, 280
Andrew Lammie, 412
Androwe, Lawrence (r. 1510–1537),
printer, 330
Andromeda, 79
Anelida. See under Chaucer
33
.
INDEX
Aachen, 74
Abacuk, in The Palice of Honour, 261
Abbey of the Holy Ghost, 308
Abbotsford, 284
Abbreochy, diocese of Moray, 115
Aberdeen, town and county, 88, 99, 100,
102, 103, 127, 128, 259, 369, 371;
King's College, 869
Abraham, 424
(or Faith), in Piers the Plowman,
27
Abry, Louis, 81
Absence, Song of, 283
Acoursius, 350, 363
Acheron, 265
Achilles, in Confesssio Amantis, 148
Achitophel, in The Palice of Honour, 260,
261
Acis and Galatea, in Confessio Amantis,
147, 151
Activa-Vita, in Piers the Plowman, 26, 27
Adam, 103
of Usk (f. 1400), 496
Adam, in The Golden Legend, 335
Bell, Clim of the Clough, and
William of Cloudesley, 408, 416, 501
Adamnan, Št (6252-704), 131
Addison, J.
was published in 1902, ed. Rawlings, G. R.
Livere de reis de Brittanie, le, et le livere de reis de Engleterre. Ed.
Glover, J. Rolls Series. 1865.
London. Chroniques de (14th cent. ). Aungier, G. J. Camden Soc. 1844.
Marie de France. See vol. 1, pp. 469, etc.
Méon, D. M. Fabliaux et contes des poètes fr. des XI°—XV° siècles (Barbazan's);
new ed. 4 vols. Paris, 1808. Nouveau recueil. 2 vols. Paris, 1823. See
also other works on fabliaux in the bibliography to vol. I, chap. xvii of
the present work.
Michel, F. Chroniques anglo-normandes . . . Xrº and xirº siècles. 3t. Rouen,
1836–40.
Normandy, Narratives of the expulsion of the English from (1449-50), Ed.
Stevenson, J. Rolls Series. 1863.
Peter of Langtoft. See vol. 1, pp. 478, etc.
Psalters, etc. Ed. Michel, F. Oxford, 1860; and Paris, 1876.
Robert de Gretham, Greetham or Greatham (13th cent. ). Compiler of
religious works for the use of lay-folk. See Paris, G. , Litt, du Moyen
Age, $ 152; Meyer, P. , Les MSS Français de Cambridge, Romania,
XXXII, 28.
St Auban, Vie de. Ed. Atkinson, R. 1876.
Samson de Nanteuil. Version of Book of Proverbs. MS Harl. 4388.
Suchier, H. and Birch-Hirschfeld, A. Gesch. der franz. Lit. Leipzig, 1900.
## p. 509 (#527) ############################################
Chapter XVIII
509
Suchier, H. and Birch-Hirschfeld, A. Reimpredigt. Halle, 1879.
Bibliotheca Normannica. Halle, 1879 ff.
Thaon, P. de. See vol. 1, p. 460.
Twicé, Guillaume de. Art de Vénerie. Eng. trans. MS. Brit. Mus. Cott.
Vesp. B. XII. See also ed. MS Phillipps 8336, Middle Hill Press, 1840.
Wace. See vol. 1, pp. 447, etc.
William the Clerk. For the various works that have passed under the name
of this Anglo-Norman thirteenth century poet see Le Roman des Aven-
tures de Fregas, ed. Michel, F. , Abbotsford Club, Edinburgh, 1841 (an
Arthurian shepherd boy story); Meon's Fabliaux (see above); Le
Bestiaire divin de G. clerc de Normandie, ed. Hippeau, Ch. , Caen, 1852;
Das Tierbuch des norman. Dichters G. le C. , Reinsch, R. , Leipzig, 1892;
Le Besant de Dieu, ed. Martin, E. , Halle, 1869 ('un des plus beaux poèmes
moraux que nous ait laissés le moyen âge, Piaget, A. , in Julleville, t. 11,
182). The Priest and Alison tale would appear to be by another Norman
William
## p. 510 (#528) ############################################
TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
1070 Hereward's rising at Ely. c. 1263-1274 Walter de Merton's
12th cent. ff. Religious plays.
foundations at Malden and Oxford.
1100-1135. King Henry I.
1265-1321 Dante.
1119 P. de Thaun's Comput. A. 1270-1287 Guido delle Colonne.
c. 1130 P. de Thaun's Bestiaire. 1272–1307 King Edward I
1135-1154 King Stephen.
1272? -1305 Sir William Wallace.
c. 1148 Gaimar's History.
1274 Dominicans at Cambridge.
(? ) 1149 Vacarius teaches civil law 1274 Foundation of Merton College,
at Oxford.
Oxford.
1154-1189 King Henry II.
1280-1284 Hugo de Balsham's scho-
f. 1160-1180 Chrétien de Troyes. lars in Cambridge and founda-
1162 St Thomas à Becket, abp of tion of Peterhouse.
Canterbury (murdered, 1170). 1298 Battle of Falkirk.
c. 1167 Canute Song.
c. 1300-1349? Richard Rolle of Ham-
1167 Oxford as a studium generale. pole.
f. 1170 Wace.
1300-1325 Auchinleck MS.
c. 1173 Garnier de Pont Sainte 1300 ? -1352? urence Minot.
Maxence.
1304-1374 Petrarch.
1173-4 Jordan Fantosme.
1305-1377 The Popes at Avignon.
f. 1180 Marie de France.
c. 1307 Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle.
1189-1199 King Richard Cour de 1307-1327 King Edward IL.
Lion.
1313-1375 Boccaccio.
1193-1280 Albertus Magnus.
1314 Battle of Bannockburn.
c. 1196 Ambroise's Hist. de la guerre c. 1320-1395 John Barbour.
sainte.
c. 1320-1384 John Wyclif.
1199-1216 King John.
1325 7-1408 John Gower.
ft. 1200 Layamon.
1326-1412 John Trevisa.
12147-1294 Roger Bacon.
1327-1377 King Edward III.
1216-1272 King Henry III.
1330 Nicole Bozon.
1217 Dominicans settle in Paris. 1330-1335 Guillaume de Deguile-
1221 Dominicans at Oxford.
C.
ville's Pilgrimages.
1224 Franciscans at Oxford and c. 1337-1340? Froissart.
Cambridge.
1338 Vows of the Heron.
c. 1226 Histoire de Guillaume le 1340 ?
-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer,
Maréchal.
c. 1340. Tale of Gamelyn.
f. 1230-1250 Bartholomaeus Angli- ? 1342-1442 Juliana of Norwich.
1349, 1361, 1369 The Black Death.
1230 ? -1298 Jacobus a Voragine. 1349? Death of William Ockham.
c. 1237 Romance of the Rose, Wil- c. 1350 The alliterative revival.
liam of Lorris, continued (c. 1278) c. 1350 Higden's Polychronicon.
by John Clopinel of Meun. 1351 Statute of Labourers.
1253 Death of Robert Grosseteste. 1355 Gray's Scalacronica.
c. 1263 Foundation of Balliol Col- 1360 Death of Richard Fitz Ralph,
lege.
abp of Armagh.
cuis.
## p. 511 (#529) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
511
1362 ff. Piers Plowman.
1413 St Andrews recognised as a
1362 Pleadings in law courts to be studium generale.
conducted in English.
1414 The Lollard Act.
1362–1364 Parliaments opened by 1415 The Crowned King.
English speeches.
1415 Battle of Agincourt.
1364 Death of Ranulf Higden.
1415 Council of Constance condemns
c. 1368-c. 1450 Thomas Occleve.
Wyclifite 'errors. '
c. 1370-c. 1450 John Lydgate.
1417 End of the Great Schism.
1370-80 Vernon MS.
1417 Execution of Sir John Old.
1371 Earliest (French) MS of the castle.
Mandeville travels.
1418 Peterhouse library catalogued.
1373-1393 William of Wykeham 1422-1471 King Henry VI.
founds Winchester.
c. 1420 Wyntoun’s Orygynale Cro-
1376 Barbour's Bruce.
nykil.
c. 1376-1377 Death of Sir Hew of 1421-1466 John Paston, letter-
Eglintoun.
writer.
1377-1399 King Richard II.
1421-1428-1491 William Caxton.
1378-1417 The Great Schism. 1422 Yonge's translation of Secreta
1379-1386 William of Wykeham Secretorum.
founds New College, Oxford. c. 1423 The Kingis Quair.
1379–1471 Thomas à Kempis.
c. 1425-c. 1500 Robert Henryson.
1381 Peasants' revolt: Wat Tyler, 1431 François Villon born.
John Ball.
1440-1441 Henry VI founds King's
1382 The earthquake council.
College, Cambridge, and Eton.
C. 1382 Gower's Vox Clamantis. 1442–1479 Sir John Paston, letter-
C. 1383 Chaucer's Troilus and Cri. writer.
seyde.
1450-1620 Period of Middle Scots.
c. 1384-1387 Fordun's Scotichronicon. At. 1450-1482 Richard de Holand.
C. 1386 Chaucer's Legend of Good 1450 MS of some Robin Hood
Women.
ballads.
C. 1387 Canterbury Tales begun.
1450 Jack Cade's rebellion.
1387 Trevisa's translation of Poly- 1450 Glasgow recognised as a str-
chronicon.
dium generale.
1388 Execution of Thomas Usk. c. 1450 Printing at Mainz.
1388 Otterburn (Percy and Dou- 1453 Constantinople captured by the
glas).
Turks.
1390 Confessio Amantis first com- 1455-1471 Wars of the Roses.
pleted.
c. 1455 Pecock's Repressor.
1391–1447 Humphrey duke of Glou- 1456 Sir Gilbert Hay's translations.
cester,
c. 1460 Blind Harry's Wallace.
1391 Chaucer's Astrolabe.
c. 1460-c. 1520 William Dunbar.
1393-1464 John Capgrave.
1461-1483 King Edward IV.
1396 Death of Walter Hylton. c. 1470 Fortescue's De Laudibus Le-
1398 Trevisa's translation of Bar- gum Angliae.
tholomaeus.
1474-5-c. 1530 Stephen Hawes.
1399-1413 King Henry IV.
c. 1475-1522 Gavin Douglas.
1401 The statute De Heretico Com. c. 1475 Recuyell of the Histories of
burendo.
Troy, the first book printed in
1401 Execution of Sawtrey.
the English language.
1401-1402 Jacke Upland.
1476 Caxton press at Westminster.
1403 Stationers' guild incorporated. 1477 Dictes and Sayings of the
1405 Archbishop Sorope's revolt.
Philosophers, the first dated
1406 The English capture Prince book issued in England.
James (James I of Scotland). c 1477 Caxton's edition of the Can.
1413-1422 King Henry V.
terbury Tales.
## p. 512 (#530) ############################################
512
Principal Dates
Table of of
1480 The first London press (John 1500 King's College, Aberdeen,
Lettou's).
completed.
1483 King Edward V.
1503 Arnold's Chronicle (in which
1483-1485 King Richard III.
was first published The Nut
1483 Caxton's Golden Legend.
Brown Maid).
1484 Caxton's Book of the Knight 1505–1506 Hawes's Passet yme of
of the Tower.
Pleasure.
1485 Battle of Bosworth.
1509-1547 King Henry VIII.
1485-1509 King Henry VII.
1510 Dean Colet founds St Paul's
1485 Sir Thomas Malory's Morte school.
d'Arthur published (finished 1511 The
1511 The Pilgrimage of Sir
1469).
Richard Guilforde (Guildford's
1486–1487 John Mirk's Liber Festi- dates are 1455 ? -1506).
valis published.
1513 Battle of Flodden.
1490 Caxton's Eneydos.
c. 1515 Asloan MS.
1492 Columbus sets sail from 1516 Fabyan's Chronicles printed.
Spain and discovers the West 1519 Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Indies.
1523-1525 Berners's translation of
1494 The Venetian press of Aldus Froissart's Chronicle printed.
begins work.
1532 First collected edition of Chau-
c. 1495 Wynkyn de Worde's edition cer (Thynne's).
of Trevisa's Bartholomaeus. 1568 Bannatyne MS.
1497 Cabot reaches America.
c. 1650 MS of Percy folio.
1498 Execution of Savonarola. 1765 Percy's Reliques printed.
1498 Erasmus comes to Oxford. 1775 Tyrwhitt's edition of Chancer.
## p. 512 (#531) ############################################
ERRATA.
p. 159 1. 36 For 1386 read 1388.
p. 161 1, 36 For Francis read William.
p. 303 l. 29 For Gray read Grey.
p. 368 1. 41 For John read James.
p. 412 1. 27 For Jarrow read Yarrow.
p. 415 1. 25 For Delmey read Deloney.
## p. 512 (#532) ############################################
## p. 513 (#533) ############################################
Alboin, in Confessio Amantis, 151
Alceone, in Confessio Amantis, 151
Aloestis, in The Legend of Good Women,
176; in The Court of Love, 220
Alcock, John, bp of Ely (1430-1500), 323,
355, 358
Alcluyd, 74
Aldingar, Sir, 412
Alexander III (of Scotland), 100, 101,
109
de Villa Dei, 359, 366 ; Doctrinale
Puerorum, 363
Sir William (1567 ? -1640), 95
the Great (Secreta Secretorum), 301;
legends of, 112
Alexander, The Buik of, 104
to Aristotle, The Letter of, 80
Alexandri, Historia, 151
Alexandria, 13, 131
Alfred, king, 341; Boethius, 186
of Beverley (f. 1143), 76
Alithia (Philosophy), in Wyclif's Tria-
logus, 65
Allan-a-Maut, 279
Allison Gross, 414
Alma redemptoris mater, in Chaucer's
The Prioress's Tale, 359
Alne, Robert, Fellow of Peterhouse, 366
Alps, the, 119
Amalekites, 10
Ambroise, Histoire de la Guerre Sainte,
420
Ambrose, St, 265
in The Example of Virtue, 227
America, first English book on, 330
Amours, F. J. , 113, 115, 121, 126
Amphitryon, in Confessio Amantis, 148
Ancren Riwle, the, 300
André of Toulouse, Bernard Andreas or,
Les Douze Triomphes de Henry VII,
223, 471
Andrea, Joannes, 364
Andreae, Antonius, Commentary on Ari-
stotle's Metaphysics, 318
Andrew of Wyntoun (1350 ? -1420 ? ), 100,
103, 104, 117, 121, 122, 129; see also
Orygynale Cronykil, 91, 115, 239, 280
Andrew Lammie, 412
Androwe, Lawrence (r. 1510–1537),
printer, 330
Andromeda, 79
Anelida. See under Chaucer
33
.
INDEX
Aachen, 74
Abacuk, in The Palice of Honour, 261
Abbey of the Holy Ghost, 308
Abbotsford, 284
Abbreochy, diocese of Moray, 115
Aberdeen, town and county, 88, 99, 100,
102, 103, 127, 128, 259, 369, 371;
King's College, 869
Abraham, 424
(or Faith), in Piers the Plowman,
27
Abry, Louis, 81
Absence, Song of, 283
Acoursius, 350, 363
Acheron, 265
Achilles, in Confesssio Amantis, 148
Achitophel, in The Palice of Honour, 260,
261
Acis and Galatea, in Confessio Amantis,
147, 151
Activa-Vita, in Piers the Plowman, 26, 27
Adam, 103
of Usk (f. 1400), 496
Adam, in The Golden Legend, 335
Bell, Clim of the Clough, and
William of Cloudesley, 408, 416, 501
Adamnan, Št (6252-704), 131
Addison, J.
