1567 Fenton's
Tragicall
Discourses.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03
Bremen, 1881.
Spies, H. Studien zur Geschichte des onglischen Pronomens im 15 und 16
Jahrh. Halle, 1897.
Stern, G. Über das persönliche Geschlecht unpersönlicher Substantiva bei
Shakespeare. Programm. Dresden, 1881.
Swearingen, G. F. Die englische Schriftsprache bei Coverdale. Berlin, 1904.
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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
rum, vol.
1475 The Babees' Boke.
1509 Bishop Smyth and Sir Richard
1478 (? ) First book printed at Ox- Sutton found Brasenose College,
ford.
Oxford.
1485–1489 Linacre and Grocyn go 1509–1547 King Henry VIII.
to Italy.
1510–1513 Erasmus at Cambridge.
1485-1509 King Henry VII.
c. 1510 Cocke Lorells bote.
1486 Bartolommeo Diaz circum- c. 1510 (? ) The Parson of Kalen-
navigates the Cape.
borowe.
1489 Villon's poems (first dated 1513 Gawain Douglas's trans. of the
edition).
Aeneid printed.
1490 Sanazzaro's Arcadia.
1513 Macchiavelli's Prince (pub.
1491 Death of Caxton.
1532).
1491 Marsilio Ficino's works pub- 1513 Battle of Flodden.
lished at Basel.
1514 Greek text of New Testament
1492 Columbus discovers the West printed at Alcalá, through instru-
Indies.
mentality of cardinal Ximenes.
1494 Sebastian Brant's Narren- 1514 Epistolae Obscurorum Viro-
schiff printed at Basel.
(vol. 11, 1517).
1494-1515 Aldus Manutius prints 1515 Earliest known edition of Eu-
editiones principes of Greek lenspiegel.
authors.
1516 More's Utopia (Latin).
1497 Sebastian Cabot reaches Ame- 1516-1563 Eulenspiegel in English.
rica.
1516 Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.
1498 Execution of Savonarola. 1516 Death of Battista Spagnuoli
1499 Erasmus visits England.
(Mantuanus).
1499 Pinzon and Amerigo Vespucci 1516 Froben publishes Erasmus's
rediscover America.
Greek Testament at Basel.
1503 Erasmus's Enchiridion Militis 1516 Bishop Fox founds Corpus
Christiani.
Christi College, Oxford.
1503 The Lady Margaret endows c. 1516 Skelton's Magnyfycence.
professors of Divinity at Oxford 1517 Luther's theses at Wittenberg.
and Cambridge.
1518 Linacre founds the Royal Col-
1505 The Lady Margaret founds lege of Physicians.
Christ's College, Cambridge. 1519 Cortes reaches the capital of
1506 Death of Columbus.
Mexico.
Before 1508 Skelton's Phyllyp 1519-1555 Charles V.
Sparowe.
c. 1519 Skelton's Colyn Clout.
Before 1509 Skelton's Bowge of 1520 Straits of Magellan crossed.
Courte.
1520 Death of Raphael.
1509 The Ship of Fools.
1521 Major's Historia majoris Bri-
1509 Erasmus's Moriae Encomium. tanniae.
1509 The Lady Margaret founds St 1521 Melanchthon's Loci Communes.
John's College, Cambridge. 1521 Diet of Worms.
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Table of Principal Dates
1521-1522 John Siberch prints books
at Cambridge.
1522-1523 Skelton's Why come ye
nat to courte.
1524 Berners's Froissart.
1524 Luther and Walther's first
German hymn book.
1525 Tindale's New Testament,
Worms.
1525 Wolsey founds Cardinal col-
lege, Oxford, on the site of the
monastery of St Frideswide (re-
endowed as Christ Church, 1546).
c. 1526 A C. Mery Talys.
1526 Vives: De Subventione Pau-
perum.
1527 Death of Macchiavelli.
1528 Rede me and be not wrothe.
1528 Simon Fish's Supplication.
1528 Castiglione's Il Cortegiano.
1528 Execution of Patrick Hamilton.
c. 1528 Lyndsay's Dreme.
1528 Death of Dürer.
1529 Guevara's Dial of Princes
(trans. Berners, 1531).
1530 Death of Cardinal Wolsey.
1530 Death of Sanazzaro.
1531 Elyot's Governour.
1531 Death of Zwingli.
1531 (pub. after) The Hye Way to
the Spyttel Hors.
1532–1564 Rabelais: Pantagruel.
1533 Death of Ariosto.
1534 Ignatius Loyola founds the
Society of Jesus.
1535-1539 Suppression of religious
houses.
1535 The first complete English
Bible (Coverdale's lst edition)
printed.
1535 Act of Supremacy.
1535 Execution of Sir Thomas
More.
1536 Esecution of William Tindale.
1536 Death of Erasmus.
1536 Calvin's Christianae Religi-
onis Institutio.
1536 Bellenden's translation of
Boece.
1536 (? ) The Complaynt of Rode-
ryck Mors.
1537 The first Bible (Coverdale's
2nd edition) printed in England.
1537 The Institution of a Christian
Man.
1538 Kirchmayer's Pammachius.
1539 The Great Bible.
1540 The English Bible set up in
churches.
1540 Lyndsay's Satyre of the Thrie
Estatis performed (printed 1602).
1540 Regius Professorships of Di.
vinity, Greek, Hebrew, Law and
Physio established at Cambridge
and Oxford.
1540 John Cheke regius professor
of Greek at Cambridge.
1541 Henry VIII's first act against
sorcery and magic.
1541 Death of Paracelsus.
1542-1547 Andrew's Boorde's Fyrste
Boke · of the Introduction of
Knowledge.
1542, 1548, 1550 Hall's Chronicle.
1543 The Necessary Doctrine and
Erudition of a Christian Man.
1543, 1557 The history of King
Richarde III.
1543 Death of Copernicus.
1544 The Litany in English.
1544 Death of Clément Marot.
1545 Montemayor's Diana Enamo-
rada.
1545 Ascham's Toxophilus.
1545 King Henry's Primer.
1545 Council of Trent opens.
1546 Leland's Laboriouse Journey
and Serche.
1546 Henry VIII founds Trinity
College, Cambridge, by combin-
ing earlier halls, etc.
1546 Death of Luther.
c. 1546 The Gude and Godlie Bal.
latis.
1547 The first book of Homilies.
1547 Execution of the earl of
Surrey.
1547-1553 King Edward VI.
1548 John Bon and Mast Parson.
c. 1548, 1549 The Complaynt of
Scotland.
1548, 1549, 1562 Sternhold and Hop-
kins's Psalms.
1549 Joachim du Bellay: Défense
et Illustration de la Langue
Française.
1549 La Pléiade (Pierre de Ronsard,
Jodelle, Bellean, Baïf, Daurat,
Pontus de Thyard and Joachim
du Bellay).
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559
1549 The first prayer-book of Ed- 1561 Merchant
Taylors School
ward VI.
founded.
1549 Dedekind's Grobianus.
1562 Jewel's Apology for the
1550 Robert Crowley's One and Church of England.
Thirty Epigrams.
1562 (written after) Sir Humphrey
c. 1550 The Wyll of the Devyll.
Gilbert's Queene Elizabethes
1551 More's Utopia trans. into Achademy.
English by Robynson.
1563 Sackville's Induction.
1552 (? ) Birth of Sir Walter Ralegh. 1563 Barnabe Googe's Eglogs.
1552 The second prayer-book of 1563 Council of Trent closes.
Edward VI.
1564 Bullein's Dialogue against the
1552 Christ's Hospital founded.
Fever Pestilence.
1553 Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique. 1564 Birth of Marlowe.
1553 Execution of Servetus.
1564 Birth of Galileo.
1553 Death of Rabelais.
1564 Death of Calvin.
1553-1558 Queen Mary I.
1565 Smith's Commonwealth of
1554 Lazarillo de Tormes.
England written (printed in
1555 Execution of Latimer.
1583).
1556 Death of Nicholas Odall, 1565 Death of Michelangelo.
author of Ralph Roister 1565 Cinthio's Hecatommithi.
Doister.
c. 1565-1566 TheGeystes of Skoggan.
1556 Execution of Cranmer.
1566 Buchanan's Psalms (2nd ed. ).
1557 Tottel's Miscellany.
1566 Gascoigne's Supposes and Jo-
1557 Tusser's Hundreth good casta at Gray's Inn.
pointes of husbandrie.
1566 Gresham founds the Royal
1557 North's trans. of Guevara's Exchange.
El Relox de Principes.
1566-1567 Painter's Palace of Plea-
1557 Recorde's Whetstone of Wit
(the first English algebra). 1567 Harman's Caveat (2nd ed. ).
1557 Death of Pietro Aretino.
1567 Fenton's Tragicall Discourses.
1557 Stationers' company incorpor- 1567 Turbervile's Epitaphs, Epi-
ated.
grams, etc.
1558 Margaret of Navarre's Hepta- 1568 The Bishops' Bible.
1568 William Allen founds Douai.
1558 Knox's First Blast of the 1570 Ascham’s Scholemaster.
Trumpet against the Monstruous 1571 The Act for the Incorporation
Regiment of Women.
of the universities of Oxford and
1558-1603 Queen Elizabeth.
Cambridge.
1559 A Mirror for Magistrates (first 1572 Massacre of St Bartholomew.
quarto).
1572 Society of Antiquaries founded
1559 Foxe's Actes and Monuments, by Parker.
in Latin (in English, 1563). c. 1573 First edition of Gascoigne's
1559 Jacques Amyot translates works.
Plutarch.
1573 (? ) Birth of Ben Jonson.
1559 Act of Uniformity.
1574 Scot's Perfite Platforme of a
1559 The Elizabethan prayer-book. Hoppe-Garden.
1560 Buchanan's Franciscanus. 1575 Gascoigne's Notes of Instruc-
1560 Death of Melanchthon.
tion.
1561 Awdeley's Fraternitye of Va- 1575_Elizabeth visits Leicester at
cabones.
Kenilworth.
1561 Hoby's trans. of Castiglione's . 1575 Tasso completes Gerusalemme
Il Cortegiano.
Liberata (1st complete ed. 1581).
1561 Gorboduc acted in Inner 1575 Birth of Jacob Boehme.
Temple Hall.
1576 The Petite Pallace of Pettie
1561 Scaliger's Poetics.
his Pleasure.
sure.
meron.
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Table of Principal Dates
1576 The Paradyse of Daynty 1588 Greene's Pandosto and Peri-
Devises.
medes the Blacksmith.
1577-1580 Drake's voyage round the 1588 The Spanish Armada.
world.
1589 The Marprelate tracts.
1578 Lyly's Euphues.
1589 Nashe's Anatomie of Ab-
1578 Holinshed's Chronicles.
surditie.
1578 A Gorgious Gallery of Gal. 1589 Greene's Menaphon.
lant Inventions.
1589 The Arte of English Poesie.
1578 Birth of William Harvey. 1589, 1598-1600 Hakluyt's Princi-
1579 The Shepheards Calender. pall Navigations.
1579 North's trans. of Plutarch. 1590 Greene's Mourning Garment
1580 Sidney's Arcadia begun (pub- and Never too late.
lished, 1590).
1590 Lodge's Rosalynde.
1580 Lyly's Euphues and his Eng- 1590 The Faerie Queene, Books
land.
I-III.
1580 Stow's Chronicles of Eng. 1591 Greene's Notable Discovery of
land.
Coosnage.
1580 Gabriel Harvey's attempts on 1591 Trinity College, Dublin, found-
behalf of classical metres.
ed.
1580 Montaigne's Essays (1st ed. ). 1592 Nashe's Pierce Pennilesse.
1580 Death of Camoeng.
1592 Greene's Quip for an Upstart
1580–1584 Sidney's Astrophel and Courtier and Blacke Bookes Mes-
Stella written (pub. 1591).
senger.
1581 Mulcaster's Positions.
1592 Greene's Groatsworth of Wit
1581 Thomas Howell's Devises.
(licensed).
1582 Mulcaster's Elementarie. 1592 Daniel's Delia.
1582 Camden's Britannia (trans. by 1592 Constable's Diana.
Philemon Holland, 1610).
1592 Death of Montaigne.
1582 Watson's EKATOMIIAOIA. 1593 Giles Fletcher's Licia.
1582 Codex Bezae given to Cam- 1593 Thomas Lodge's Phillis.
bridge University,
1593 Barnabe Barnes's Parthena
1582 Edinburgh University founded. phil and Parthenophe.
1582 Death of St Teresa.
1593 Death of Marlowe.
Before 1583 Sidney's Apologie for 1594 Hooker's Ecclesiastical Po-
Poetrie written (printed 1595). lity, 1-Iv.
1583 Stubbes's Anatomy of Abuses. 1594 Nashe's Unfortunate Travel-
1584 A Handefull of pleasant ler and Terrors of the Night.
delites.
1594 Drayton's Idea.
1584 Reginald Scot's Discoverie of 1594 La Satyre Ménippée.
Witchcraft.
1595 Spenser's Amoretti.
1584 Sir Walter Mildmay founds 1595 Richard Barnfield's Cynthia.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 1595 Death of Tasso.
1585 Death of Pierre de Ronsard. 1595-1596 The Faerie Queene, Books
1585 Elizabeth assumes protection IV-VI.
of Netherlands.
1596 Ben Jonson's Every Man in
1586 Knox's Historie of the re- his Humour.
formatioun of Scotland.
1596 Gresham College founded.
1586 Webbe's Discourse of English 1597 Bacon's Essayes (1st ed. ).
Poetrie.
1597 National scheme for relief of
1586 Death of Sir Philip Sidney.
the poor formulated.
1587 Penry's Aequity.
1598 Emanuel Ford's Parismus.
1587 Albericus Gentilis, regius pro-
1598 Death of Burghley.
fessor of civil law, Oxford.
1598 Restoration of the University
1587 Execution of Mary Stewart.
Library, Oxford, by Sir Thomas
1588 Udall's Diotrephes.
Bodley.
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561
1598 Edict of Nantes.
1605 Bacon's Advancement of
1598, 1603 Stow's Survey of the Learning.
Cities of London and Westmin- 1605 Gunpowder plot.
ster.
1605–1615 Don Quixote.
1599 Nashe's Lenten Stuffe.
1611 The Authorised Version.
1599 The Passionate Pilgrim. 1611 Speed's Historie of Great
1599 Guzman d'Alfarache.
Britaine.
1599 Death of Spenser.
1615 Camden's Annales.
Part 1.
1600 England's Helicon.
(Part 11, 1627, 1629. )
1600 Gilbert's De Magnete.
1616 Death of Shakespeare.
1600 Execution of Giordano Bruno. 1616 Death of Cervantes.
1600 Foundation of the East India 1619 Drayton's Ideas Mirrour.
Company.
1620 Bacon's Novum Organum.
1602 Campion's Observations in the 1625-1649 King Charles I.
Art of English Poesy.
1628 Coke: The first part of the
1602 (? ) Daniel's Defence of Ryme. Institutes of the Laws of Eng-
1603 Florio's trans. of Montaigne.
land.
1603-1625 King James I. of Eng- 1633 Fulke Greville's Caelica pub-
land.
lished.
1604 Breton's Passionate Shep- 1641 Cavendish's Life and Death of
heard.
Thomas Woolsey (printed).
E. L. III.
36
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INDEX OF NAMES
[Ff. after an entry implies that there are references to the same subject on at least
two immediately succeeding pages. )
63
Abel, in The Cytezen and Uplondyshman,
63
Aberdeen, 122, 137, 155
* Abraham man,' in The Fraternitye of
vacabones, 102
Achilles, 231
Tatius, Clitophon and Leucippe,
351
Acolastus, 363
Adam, in The Cytezen and Uplondyshman,
Amaryllis, in The Shepheards Calender,
222, 226
Ambodexter, in A Dialogue. . . against the
fever Pestilence, 109
America, 97
Ammonius, An 14
Amoret (Spenser's), 236
Amyntas, in The Cytezen and Uplondysh-
man, 63
and Eve, 130
Addison, Joseph, 304, 373
Adversyte, in Magnyfycence, 77
Aesculapius, in The Faerie Queene, 234
Aesop's Fables, 22
African church, the, 411
Agathon (Plato's), 216
Agincourt, battle of, 314, 325
Agricola, Rodolphus, 50, 424
Agrippa, Cornelius, 11, 112, 363, 365;
Occulta Philosophia, De, 112
Alamanni, Luigi, 173
Alane (Alesius), Alexander (1500-1565),
140, 141; Edinburgh, description of,
141; Cohortatio ad Concordiam, 141 ;
Epistola contra Decretum quoddam
Episcoporum in Scotia, 141; Responsio
ad Cochlaei Calumnias, 141
Albanact, 192
Albany, John, duke of, 70
Alciati, Andrea, 423
Alcina, in Orlando Furioso, 231
Alcock, John (1430-1500), 66
Aldus Manutius, Romanus, 5, 427
Alesius ; Aless. See Alane, Alexander
Alexander, Sir William (1567 ? -1640),
earl of Stirling, Aurora, 257, 266, 267
the Great, 24, 61
Alexis (Vergil's), 264
Alfred, king, 160
Alinda, in Rosalynde, 358
Alington, Syr Giles, Knight, 57
Allen, William (1532-1594), cardinal, 422
Allington, Kent, 167
Alma, house of, in The Faerie Queene,
233
Almaine, the Black (a tune), 190
Almanacs, 19
Alphus (Mantuan's), 223
Alys Esy, in Cocke Lorell's bote, 84
Amadis and Palmerin cycles, 359
Ancren Riwle, 440
Anne Boleyn, 16, 26, 167, 168, 175,
332, 336, 337
mastres, friend of John Skelton,
71
of Cleves, 175
Anthony Now-Now, in The Gentle Craft,
370
Antonius, in A Dialogue . . . against the
fever Pestilence, 108
Antwerp, 18, 43, 208
Apollodorus, 86
Aquinas, St Thomas, 4, 9, 19, 416
Arbuthnot, Alexander (1538–1583), 137
Arcadia and Arcadianism, 265, 310, 348,
352, 353, 356, 357 ff. , 367, 370. See also
under Sidney
Arcadian shepherds, in Piers Plainnes
seaven yeres Prentiship, 367
Archimago, in The Faerie Queene, 231
Arden, forest of, 355
Aretino, in The Unjortunate Traveller,
366
Arfeville, Nicolas d', 156
Argentile, in Albion's England, 357
Ariosto, Ludovico, 23, 176, 204, 210,
229 ff. , 236, 244, 262, 305; Orlando
Furioso, 230 ff. , 236
Aristophanes, 20
Aristotle, 6, 20, 23, 50, 109, 233, 291,
305, 416, 420, 425, 430; Aldine edition
of, 5; Ethics, 430
Armada, the, 188, 211, 244
Armida, in Orlando Furioso, 230
Artegall, in The Fasrie Queene, 231, 234,
236
Arthar, prince, in The Faerie Queene,
230, 232 ff. , 237
prince of Wales, 6, 8
Arthur, Morte d', 233, 237
Arthure, Awntyrs of, 278
Arthurian romance, 359
Articles, Ten, 13
## p. 563 (#585) ############################################
563
Index of Names
Arundel, Thomas (1353–1414), archbishop Bellum fugurthinum, translation of, 56
of Canterbury, 42
Chasteau de labour, Le, translation of,
Arundel's (earl of) yeomen, in Widow 56
Edith, 89
Contra Skeltonum, 66
Ascham, Roger, 290 ff. , 308, 310, 311, Eclogues, 56, 57, 62 ff. , Codrus and
317. 318, 327, 341, 348, 419, 421, 425, Minalcus, 64, Cytezen and Up.
431 ff. , 438, 444, 446, 447, 454
londyshman, 63, 64
Imitatione, De, 433
Introductory to write and to pronounce
Report and Discourse of the affairs of Frenche, 56, 57
Germany, 432
Myrrour of Good Maners, The, trans-
Scholemaster, The, 311, 341, 433 ff.
lation of, 57, 341
Toxophilus, 308, 433, 445
Narrenschiff, Das, translation of, 57
Ashford, Kent, 395
St George, Life of, 57
Ashton, Thomas (d. 1578), 428, 429
St Thomas of Canterbury, Life of, 57
Aslackton, Nottinghamshire, 32
Sallust, 57
Athens, in The Anatomy of Wit, 345 Ship of Fools, The, 56, 57, 60 ff. ,
Atlante, in Orlando Furioso, 231
64 ff. , 71, 74, 79, 485
Aubrey, John (1626–1697), 323
Barker, John (f. 1464), 99
Augsburg Interim, 34
Barkham, John (1572 2-1642), 324
Augustine, St, 9, 19, 400, 416; De Barlow, Jerome, 80
Civitate Dei, 15, 16
Dialogue upon the origin o; the pro-
Augustinianism, 12
testant fashions, 80
Aulus Gellius, 20
Proper Dyalogue betwene a Gentillman
Ausonius, 173, 187
and a Husbandman, 80
Autolycus, in A Winter's Tale, 356
Rede me and be not wrothe, 80, 105
Auvergne (La Chaise Dieu), 100
Barnes, Barnabe (1569? -1609), 256, 264,
Avarice, in Negromansir, 77
265, 271; Parthenophil and Parthe-
Avarus, in A Dialogue. . . against the fever nophe, 265
Pestilence, 109
Joseph, 427
Awdeley or Awdelay, John (f. 1559-
Robert (1495–1540), 27, 37, 43, 53
1577); Fraternitye of vacabones, The, Barnfield, Richard (1574-1627), Cynthia,
87, 102, 103, 104, 343, 360, 448
with certaine Sonnets, 256, 264
Aylmer, John (1521-1594), bishop of Barrow or Barrowe, Henry (d. 1593),
London, 145, 376, 385, 386, 397
389, 390
Ayrshire, 45
Barrowists, the, 408
Bartello, in Dan Bartholmer of Bathe,
Babees' Boke, The, 341
205, 206
Bacchus, 317
Basel, 41, 58, 100, 333
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626), 308, 324, Batt, in Dan Bartholmew of Bathe, 205
325, 337, 392, 417, 425, 438, 445, 459 Beaton or Bethune, James (d. 1539),
Badius, Jodocus, 59
160
Bagford, John (1650–1716), 97
Beatrice (Dante's), 234
Baldwin, William (A. 1547), editor of A Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John,
Mirror for Magistrates, which also see, Cupid's Revenge, 355
192 ff. , 198, 200, 494 ; Brief Memorial, Becket, Thomas d, 12, 332
A, 194; Canticles, The, 194; Moral Becon, Thomas, 27
Philosophy, A Treatise of, 194
Bedford, 202
Bale, John (1495–1563), 55, 123, 124; Belial, 127
King John, 123, 280
Bellarmine, cardinal, 414
Robert (A. 1461), 48, 57, 77, 81 Bellenden, John (f. 1533-1587), 131,
Ballads, 19
156, 319; Banner of Pietie, The, 131;
Balnaves,' o Gallandis All I cry and Livy, Scottish translation of, 156
call, 131
Belphoebe, in The Faerie Queene, 233, 237
Bancroft, Richard (1544–1610), 391, 392, Bembo, Pietro, 262
394, 544; Sermon preached at Paules Benedictines, 48, 51, 57
crosse, 392
Bentham, Jeremy, 425
Bandello, Matteo, 348
Bere, Richard (d. 1524), 49
Bannatyne, George (1545–1608? ), 132 Berkeley, George, bishop of Cloyne, 416
MS, 122, 131, 132
Berkshire, 368
Richard, Memorials of the Trans- Bernard, St, 189
actions of Scotland, The, 148, 149 Berners, lord, John Bourchier (1467-
Bansley, Charles (f. 1548), Pryde and 1533), Froissart, 348
Abuse of Women, The, 97
Berthelet, T. , 315
Barbarisme, in The Tears of the Muses, 241 Bew, M. , 189
Barbarus, Hermolas, 5
Beware the Cat, 112, 494
Barclay, Alexander (1475? -1552), 56 ff.
Spies, H. Studien zur Geschichte des onglischen Pronomens im 15 und 16
Jahrh. Halle, 1897.
Stern, G. Über das persönliche Geschlecht unpersönlicher Substantiva bei
Shakespeare. Programm. Dresden, 1881.
Swearingen, G. F. Die englische Schriftsprache bei Coverdale. Berlin, 1904.
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rum, vol.
1475 The Babees' Boke.
1509 Bishop Smyth and Sir Richard
1478 (? ) First book printed at Ox- Sutton found Brasenose College,
ford.
Oxford.
1485–1489 Linacre and Grocyn go 1509–1547 King Henry VIII.
to Italy.
1510–1513 Erasmus at Cambridge.
1485-1509 King Henry VII.
c. 1510 Cocke Lorells bote.
1486 Bartolommeo Diaz circum- c. 1510 (? ) The Parson of Kalen-
navigates the Cape.
borowe.
1489 Villon's poems (first dated 1513 Gawain Douglas's trans. of the
edition).
Aeneid printed.
1490 Sanazzaro's Arcadia.
1513 Macchiavelli's Prince (pub.
1491 Death of Caxton.
1532).
1491 Marsilio Ficino's works pub- 1513 Battle of Flodden.
lished at Basel.
1514 Greek text of New Testament
1492 Columbus discovers the West printed at Alcalá, through instru-
Indies.
mentality of cardinal Ximenes.
1494 Sebastian Brant's Narren- 1514 Epistolae Obscurorum Viro-
schiff printed at Basel.
(vol. 11, 1517).
1494-1515 Aldus Manutius prints 1515 Earliest known edition of Eu-
editiones principes of Greek lenspiegel.
authors.
1516 More's Utopia (Latin).
1497 Sebastian Cabot reaches Ame- 1516-1563 Eulenspiegel in English.
rica.
1516 Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.
1498 Execution of Savonarola. 1516 Death of Battista Spagnuoli
1499 Erasmus visits England.
(Mantuanus).
1499 Pinzon and Amerigo Vespucci 1516 Froben publishes Erasmus's
rediscover America.
Greek Testament at Basel.
1503 Erasmus's Enchiridion Militis 1516 Bishop Fox founds Corpus
Christiani.
Christi College, Oxford.
1503 The Lady Margaret endows c. 1516 Skelton's Magnyfycence.
professors of Divinity at Oxford 1517 Luther's theses at Wittenberg.
and Cambridge.
1518 Linacre founds the Royal Col-
1505 The Lady Margaret founds lege of Physicians.
Christ's College, Cambridge. 1519 Cortes reaches the capital of
1506 Death of Columbus.
Mexico.
Before 1508 Skelton's Phyllyp 1519-1555 Charles V.
Sparowe.
c. 1519 Skelton's Colyn Clout.
Before 1509 Skelton's Bowge of 1520 Straits of Magellan crossed.
Courte.
1520 Death of Raphael.
1509 The Ship of Fools.
1521 Major's Historia majoris Bri-
1509 Erasmus's Moriae Encomium. tanniae.
1509 The Lady Margaret founds St 1521 Melanchthon's Loci Communes.
John's College, Cambridge. 1521 Diet of Worms.
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Table of Principal Dates
1521-1522 John Siberch prints books
at Cambridge.
1522-1523 Skelton's Why come ye
nat to courte.
1524 Berners's Froissart.
1524 Luther and Walther's first
German hymn book.
1525 Tindale's New Testament,
Worms.
1525 Wolsey founds Cardinal col-
lege, Oxford, on the site of the
monastery of St Frideswide (re-
endowed as Christ Church, 1546).
c. 1526 A C. Mery Talys.
1526 Vives: De Subventione Pau-
perum.
1527 Death of Macchiavelli.
1528 Rede me and be not wrothe.
1528 Simon Fish's Supplication.
1528 Castiglione's Il Cortegiano.
1528 Execution of Patrick Hamilton.
c. 1528 Lyndsay's Dreme.
1528 Death of Dürer.
1529 Guevara's Dial of Princes
(trans. Berners, 1531).
1530 Death of Cardinal Wolsey.
1530 Death of Sanazzaro.
1531 Elyot's Governour.
1531 Death of Zwingli.
1531 (pub. after) The Hye Way to
the Spyttel Hors.
1532–1564 Rabelais: Pantagruel.
1533 Death of Ariosto.
1534 Ignatius Loyola founds the
Society of Jesus.
1535-1539 Suppression of religious
houses.
1535 The first complete English
Bible (Coverdale's lst edition)
printed.
1535 Act of Supremacy.
1535 Execution of Sir Thomas
More.
1536 Esecution of William Tindale.
1536 Death of Erasmus.
1536 Calvin's Christianae Religi-
onis Institutio.
1536 Bellenden's translation of
Boece.
1536 (? ) The Complaynt of Rode-
ryck Mors.
1537 The first Bible (Coverdale's
2nd edition) printed in England.
1537 The Institution of a Christian
Man.
1538 Kirchmayer's Pammachius.
1539 The Great Bible.
1540 The English Bible set up in
churches.
1540 Lyndsay's Satyre of the Thrie
Estatis performed (printed 1602).
1540 Regius Professorships of Di.
vinity, Greek, Hebrew, Law and
Physio established at Cambridge
and Oxford.
1540 John Cheke regius professor
of Greek at Cambridge.
1541 Henry VIII's first act against
sorcery and magic.
1541 Death of Paracelsus.
1542-1547 Andrew's Boorde's Fyrste
Boke · of the Introduction of
Knowledge.
1542, 1548, 1550 Hall's Chronicle.
1543 The Necessary Doctrine and
Erudition of a Christian Man.
1543, 1557 The history of King
Richarde III.
1543 Death of Copernicus.
1544 The Litany in English.
1544 Death of Clément Marot.
1545 Montemayor's Diana Enamo-
rada.
1545 Ascham's Toxophilus.
1545 King Henry's Primer.
1545 Council of Trent opens.
1546 Leland's Laboriouse Journey
and Serche.
1546 Henry VIII founds Trinity
College, Cambridge, by combin-
ing earlier halls, etc.
1546 Death of Luther.
c. 1546 The Gude and Godlie Bal.
latis.
1547 The first book of Homilies.
1547 Execution of the earl of
Surrey.
1547-1553 King Edward VI.
1548 John Bon and Mast Parson.
c. 1548, 1549 The Complaynt of
Scotland.
1548, 1549, 1562 Sternhold and Hop-
kins's Psalms.
1549 Joachim du Bellay: Défense
et Illustration de la Langue
Française.
1549 La Pléiade (Pierre de Ronsard,
Jodelle, Bellean, Baïf, Daurat,
Pontus de Thyard and Joachim
du Bellay).
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559
1549 The first prayer-book of Ed- 1561 Merchant
Taylors School
ward VI.
founded.
1549 Dedekind's Grobianus.
1562 Jewel's Apology for the
1550 Robert Crowley's One and Church of England.
Thirty Epigrams.
1562 (written after) Sir Humphrey
c. 1550 The Wyll of the Devyll.
Gilbert's Queene Elizabethes
1551 More's Utopia trans. into Achademy.
English by Robynson.
1563 Sackville's Induction.
1552 (? ) Birth of Sir Walter Ralegh. 1563 Barnabe Googe's Eglogs.
1552 The second prayer-book of 1563 Council of Trent closes.
Edward VI.
1564 Bullein's Dialogue against the
1552 Christ's Hospital founded.
Fever Pestilence.
1553 Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique. 1564 Birth of Marlowe.
1553 Execution of Servetus.
1564 Birth of Galileo.
1553 Death of Rabelais.
1564 Death of Calvin.
1553-1558 Queen Mary I.
1565 Smith's Commonwealth of
1554 Lazarillo de Tormes.
England written (printed in
1555 Execution of Latimer.
1583).
1556 Death of Nicholas Odall, 1565 Death of Michelangelo.
author of Ralph Roister 1565 Cinthio's Hecatommithi.
Doister.
c. 1565-1566 TheGeystes of Skoggan.
1556 Execution of Cranmer.
1566 Buchanan's Psalms (2nd ed. ).
1557 Tottel's Miscellany.
1566 Gascoigne's Supposes and Jo-
1557 Tusser's Hundreth good casta at Gray's Inn.
pointes of husbandrie.
1566 Gresham founds the Royal
1557 North's trans. of Guevara's Exchange.
El Relox de Principes.
1566-1567 Painter's Palace of Plea-
1557 Recorde's Whetstone of Wit
(the first English algebra). 1567 Harman's Caveat (2nd ed. ).
1557 Death of Pietro Aretino.
1567 Fenton's Tragicall Discourses.
1557 Stationers' company incorpor- 1567 Turbervile's Epitaphs, Epi-
ated.
grams, etc.
1558 Margaret of Navarre's Hepta- 1568 The Bishops' Bible.
1568 William Allen founds Douai.
1558 Knox's First Blast of the 1570 Ascham’s Scholemaster.
Trumpet against the Monstruous 1571 The Act for the Incorporation
Regiment of Women.
of the universities of Oxford and
1558-1603 Queen Elizabeth.
Cambridge.
1559 A Mirror for Magistrates (first 1572 Massacre of St Bartholomew.
quarto).
1572 Society of Antiquaries founded
1559 Foxe's Actes and Monuments, by Parker.
in Latin (in English, 1563). c. 1573 First edition of Gascoigne's
1559 Jacques Amyot translates works.
Plutarch.
1573 (? ) Birth of Ben Jonson.
1559 Act of Uniformity.
1574 Scot's Perfite Platforme of a
1559 The Elizabethan prayer-book. Hoppe-Garden.
1560 Buchanan's Franciscanus. 1575 Gascoigne's Notes of Instruc-
1560 Death of Melanchthon.
tion.
1561 Awdeley's Fraternitye of Va- 1575_Elizabeth visits Leicester at
cabones.
Kenilworth.
1561 Hoby's trans. of Castiglione's . 1575 Tasso completes Gerusalemme
Il Cortegiano.
Liberata (1st complete ed. 1581).
1561 Gorboduc acted in Inner 1575 Birth of Jacob Boehme.
Temple Hall.
1576 The Petite Pallace of Pettie
1561 Scaliger's Poetics.
his Pleasure.
sure.
meron.
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Table of Principal Dates
1576 The Paradyse of Daynty 1588 Greene's Pandosto and Peri-
Devises.
medes the Blacksmith.
1577-1580 Drake's voyage round the 1588 The Spanish Armada.
world.
1589 The Marprelate tracts.
1578 Lyly's Euphues.
1589 Nashe's Anatomie of Ab-
1578 Holinshed's Chronicles.
surditie.
1578 A Gorgious Gallery of Gal. 1589 Greene's Menaphon.
lant Inventions.
1589 The Arte of English Poesie.
1578 Birth of William Harvey. 1589, 1598-1600 Hakluyt's Princi-
1579 The Shepheards Calender. pall Navigations.
1579 North's trans. of Plutarch. 1590 Greene's Mourning Garment
1580 Sidney's Arcadia begun (pub- and Never too late.
lished, 1590).
1590 Lodge's Rosalynde.
1580 Lyly's Euphues and his Eng- 1590 The Faerie Queene, Books
land.
I-III.
1580 Stow's Chronicles of Eng. 1591 Greene's Notable Discovery of
land.
Coosnage.
1580 Gabriel Harvey's attempts on 1591 Trinity College, Dublin, found-
behalf of classical metres.
ed.
1580 Montaigne's Essays (1st ed. ). 1592 Nashe's Pierce Pennilesse.
1580 Death of Camoeng.
1592 Greene's Quip for an Upstart
1580–1584 Sidney's Astrophel and Courtier and Blacke Bookes Mes-
Stella written (pub. 1591).
senger.
1581 Mulcaster's Positions.
1592 Greene's Groatsworth of Wit
1581 Thomas Howell's Devises.
(licensed).
1582 Mulcaster's Elementarie. 1592 Daniel's Delia.
1582 Camden's Britannia (trans. by 1592 Constable's Diana.
Philemon Holland, 1610).
1592 Death of Montaigne.
1582 Watson's EKATOMIIAOIA. 1593 Giles Fletcher's Licia.
1582 Codex Bezae given to Cam- 1593 Thomas Lodge's Phillis.
bridge University,
1593 Barnabe Barnes's Parthena
1582 Edinburgh University founded. phil and Parthenophe.
1582 Death of St Teresa.
1593 Death of Marlowe.
Before 1583 Sidney's Apologie for 1594 Hooker's Ecclesiastical Po-
Poetrie written (printed 1595). lity, 1-Iv.
1583 Stubbes's Anatomy of Abuses. 1594 Nashe's Unfortunate Travel-
1584 A Handefull of pleasant ler and Terrors of the Night.
delites.
1594 Drayton's Idea.
1584 Reginald Scot's Discoverie of 1594 La Satyre Ménippée.
Witchcraft.
1595 Spenser's Amoretti.
1584 Sir Walter Mildmay founds 1595 Richard Barnfield's Cynthia.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 1595 Death of Tasso.
1585 Death of Pierre de Ronsard. 1595-1596 The Faerie Queene, Books
1585 Elizabeth assumes protection IV-VI.
of Netherlands.
1596 Ben Jonson's Every Man in
1586 Knox's Historie of the re- his Humour.
formatioun of Scotland.
1596 Gresham College founded.
1586 Webbe's Discourse of English 1597 Bacon's Essayes (1st ed. ).
Poetrie.
1597 National scheme for relief of
1586 Death of Sir Philip Sidney.
the poor formulated.
1587 Penry's Aequity.
1598 Emanuel Ford's Parismus.
1587 Albericus Gentilis, regius pro-
1598 Death of Burghley.
fessor of civil law, Oxford.
1598 Restoration of the University
1587 Execution of Mary Stewart.
Library, Oxford, by Sir Thomas
1588 Udall's Diotrephes.
Bodley.
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561
1598 Edict of Nantes.
1605 Bacon's Advancement of
1598, 1603 Stow's Survey of the Learning.
Cities of London and Westmin- 1605 Gunpowder plot.
ster.
1605–1615 Don Quixote.
1599 Nashe's Lenten Stuffe.
1611 The Authorised Version.
1599 The Passionate Pilgrim. 1611 Speed's Historie of Great
1599 Guzman d'Alfarache.
Britaine.
1599 Death of Spenser.
1615 Camden's Annales.
Part 1.
1600 England's Helicon.
(Part 11, 1627, 1629. )
1600 Gilbert's De Magnete.
1616 Death of Shakespeare.
1600 Execution of Giordano Bruno. 1616 Death of Cervantes.
1600 Foundation of the East India 1619 Drayton's Ideas Mirrour.
Company.
1620 Bacon's Novum Organum.
1602 Campion's Observations in the 1625-1649 King Charles I.
Art of English Poesy.
1628 Coke: The first part of the
1602 (? ) Daniel's Defence of Ryme. Institutes of the Laws of Eng-
1603 Florio's trans. of Montaigne.
land.
1603-1625 King James I. of Eng- 1633 Fulke Greville's Caelica pub-
land.
lished.
1604 Breton's Passionate Shep- 1641 Cavendish's Life and Death of
heard.
Thomas Woolsey (printed).
E. L. III.
36
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INDEX OF NAMES
[Ff. after an entry implies that there are references to the same subject on at least
two immediately succeeding pages. )
63
Abel, in The Cytezen and Uplondyshman,
63
Aberdeen, 122, 137, 155
* Abraham man,' in The Fraternitye of
vacabones, 102
Achilles, 231
Tatius, Clitophon and Leucippe,
351
Acolastus, 363
Adam, in The Cytezen and Uplondyshman,
Amaryllis, in The Shepheards Calender,
222, 226
Ambodexter, in A Dialogue. . . against the
fever Pestilence, 109
America, 97
Ammonius, An 14
Amoret (Spenser's), 236
Amyntas, in The Cytezen and Uplondysh-
man, 63
and Eve, 130
Addison, Joseph, 304, 373
Adversyte, in Magnyfycence, 77
Aesculapius, in The Faerie Queene, 234
Aesop's Fables, 22
African church, the, 411
Agathon (Plato's), 216
Agincourt, battle of, 314, 325
Agricola, Rodolphus, 50, 424
Agrippa, Cornelius, 11, 112, 363, 365;
Occulta Philosophia, De, 112
Alamanni, Luigi, 173
Alane (Alesius), Alexander (1500-1565),
140, 141; Edinburgh, description of,
141; Cohortatio ad Concordiam, 141 ;
Epistola contra Decretum quoddam
Episcoporum in Scotia, 141; Responsio
ad Cochlaei Calumnias, 141
Albanact, 192
Albany, John, duke of, 70
Alciati, Andrea, 423
Alcina, in Orlando Furioso, 231
Alcock, John (1430-1500), 66
Aldus Manutius, Romanus, 5, 427
Alesius ; Aless. See Alane, Alexander
Alexander, Sir William (1567 ? -1640),
earl of Stirling, Aurora, 257, 266, 267
the Great, 24, 61
Alexis (Vergil's), 264
Alfred, king, 160
Alinda, in Rosalynde, 358
Alington, Syr Giles, Knight, 57
Allen, William (1532-1594), cardinal, 422
Allington, Kent, 167
Alma, house of, in The Faerie Queene,
233
Almaine, the Black (a tune), 190
Almanacs, 19
Alphus (Mantuan's), 223
Alys Esy, in Cocke Lorell's bote, 84
Amadis and Palmerin cycles, 359
Ancren Riwle, 440
Anne Boleyn, 16, 26, 167, 168, 175,
332, 336, 337
mastres, friend of John Skelton,
71
of Cleves, 175
Anthony Now-Now, in The Gentle Craft,
370
Antonius, in A Dialogue . . . against the
fever Pestilence, 108
Antwerp, 18, 43, 208
Apollodorus, 86
Aquinas, St Thomas, 4, 9, 19, 416
Arbuthnot, Alexander (1538–1583), 137
Arcadia and Arcadianism, 265, 310, 348,
352, 353, 356, 357 ff. , 367, 370. See also
under Sidney
Arcadian shepherds, in Piers Plainnes
seaven yeres Prentiship, 367
Archimago, in The Faerie Queene, 231
Arden, forest of, 355
Aretino, in The Unjortunate Traveller,
366
Arfeville, Nicolas d', 156
Argentile, in Albion's England, 357
Ariosto, Ludovico, 23, 176, 204, 210,
229 ff. , 236, 244, 262, 305; Orlando
Furioso, 230 ff. , 236
Aristophanes, 20
Aristotle, 6, 20, 23, 50, 109, 233, 291,
305, 416, 420, 425, 430; Aldine edition
of, 5; Ethics, 430
Armada, the, 188, 211, 244
Armida, in Orlando Furioso, 230
Artegall, in The Fasrie Queene, 231, 234,
236
Arthar, prince, in The Faerie Queene,
230, 232 ff. , 237
prince of Wales, 6, 8
Arthur, Morte d', 233, 237
Arthure, Awntyrs of, 278
Arthurian romance, 359
Articles, Ten, 13
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563
Index of Names
Arundel, Thomas (1353–1414), archbishop Bellum fugurthinum, translation of, 56
of Canterbury, 42
Chasteau de labour, Le, translation of,
Arundel's (earl of) yeomen, in Widow 56
Edith, 89
Contra Skeltonum, 66
Ascham, Roger, 290 ff. , 308, 310, 311, Eclogues, 56, 57, 62 ff. , Codrus and
317. 318, 327, 341, 348, 419, 421, 425, Minalcus, 64, Cytezen and Up.
431 ff. , 438, 444, 446, 447, 454
londyshman, 63, 64
Imitatione, De, 433
Introductory to write and to pronounce
Report and Discourse of the affairs of Frenche, 56, 57
Germany, 432
Myrrour of Good Maners, The, trans-
Scholemaster, The, 311, 341, 433 ff.
lation of, 57, 341
Toxophilus, 308, 433, 445
Narrenschiff, Das, translation of, 57
Ashford, Kent, 395
St George, Life of, 57
Ashton, Thomas (d. 1578), 428, 429
St Thomas of Canterbury, Life of, 57
Aslackton, Nottinghamshire, 32
Sallust, 57
Athens, in The Anatomy of Wit, 345 Ship of Fools, The, 56, 57, 60 ff. ,
Atlante, in Orlando Furioso, 231
64 ff. , 71, 74, 79, 485
Aubrey, John (1626–1697), 323
Barker, John (f. 1464), 99
Augsburg Interim, 34
Barkham, John (1572 2-1642), 324
Augustine, St, 9, 19, 400, 416; De Barlow, Jerome, 80
Civitate Dei, 15, 16
Dialogue upon the origin o; the pro-
Augustinianism, 12
testant fashions, 80
Aulus Gellius, 20
Proper Dyalogue betwene a Gentillman
Ausonius, 173, 187
and a Husbandman, 80
Autolycus, in A Winter's Tale, 356
Rede me and be not wrothe, 80, 105
Auvergne (La Chaise Dieu), 100
Barnes, Barnabe (1569? -1609), 256, 264,
Avarice, in Negromansir, 77
265, 271; Parthenophil and Parthe-
Avarus, in A Dialogue. . . against the fever nophe, 265
Pestilence, 109
Joseph, 427
Awdeley or Awdelay, John (f. 1559-
Robert (1495–1540), 27, 37, 43, 53
1577); Fraternitye of vacabones, The, Barnfield, Richard (1574-1627), Cynthia,
87, 102, 103, 104, 343, 360, 448
with certaine Sonnets, 256, 264
Aylmer, John (1521-1594), bishop of Barrow or Barrowe, Henry (d. 1593),
London, 145, 376, 385, 386, 397
389, 390
Ayrshire, 45
Barrowists, the, 408
Bartello, in Dan Bartholmer of Bathe,
Babees' Boke, The, 341
205, 206
Bacchus, 317
Basel, 41, 58, 100, 333
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626), 308, 324, Batt, in Dan Bartholmew of Bathe, 205
325, 337, 392, 417, 425, 438, 445, 459 Beaton or Bethune, James (d. 1539),
Badius, Jodocus, 59
160
Bagford, John (1650–1716), 97
Beatrice (Dante's), 234
Baldwin, William (A. 1547), editor of A Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John,
Mirror for Magistrates, which also see, Cupid's Revenge, 355
192 ff. , 198, 200, 494 ; Brief Memorial, Becket, Thomas d, 12, 332
A, 194; Canticles, The, 194; Moral Becon, Thomas, 27
Philosophy, A Treatise of, 194
Bedford, 202
Bale, John (1495–1563), 55, 123, 124; Belial, 127
King John, 123, 280
Bellarmine, cardinal, 414
Robert (A. 1461), 48, 57, 77, 81 Bellenden, John (f. 1533-1587), 131,
Ballads, 19
156, 319; Banner of Pietie, The, 131;
Balnaves,' o Gallandis All I cry and Livy, Scottish translation of, 156
call, 131
Belphoebe, in The Faerie Queene, 233, 237
Bancroft, Richard (1544–1610), 391, 392, Bembo, Pietro, 262
394, 544; Sermon preached at Paules Benedictines, 48, 51, 57
crosse, 392
Bentham, Jeremy, 425
Bandello, Matteo, 348
Bere, Richard (d. 1524), 49
Bannatyne, George (1545–1608? ), 132 Berkeley, George, bishop of Cloyne, 416
MS, 122, 131, 132
Berkshire, 368
Richard, Memorials of the Trans- Bernard, St, 189
actions of Scotland, The, 148, 149 Berners, lord, John Bourchier (1467-
Bansley, Charles (f. 1548), Pryde and 1533), Froissart, 348
Abuse of Women, The, 97
Berthelet, T. , 315
Barbarisme, in The Tears of the Muses, 241 Bew, M. , 189
Barbarus, Hermolas, 5
Beware the Cat, 112, 494
Barclay, Alexander (1475? -1552), 56 ff.
