Poems, chiefly lyricall from the
Romances
and Prose Tracts
of the Elizabethan Age.
of the Elizabethan Age.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03
1613.
The Life & Raigne of King Edward the Sixt. Written by Sir John
Hayward, Knight, Doctor of Law. 1630. A second edition of this work
(1636) includes the begining of the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth. '
Annals of the First Four Years of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Sir John
Hayward, Knt. D. C. L. Edited from a MS in the Harleian Collection by
John Bruce, Esq. , F. S. A. Camden Society. 1840. This contains unpub-
lished matter together with a brief biography of Sir J. Hayward.
RAPHAEL HOLINSHED.
The firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, & Irelande.
Conteyning, the description & Chronicles of England from the first
inhabiting unto the Conquest. The description & Chronicles of Scot-
land, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our
Lorde 1571. The description & Chronicles of Irelande, likewise from
the firste originall of that nation untill the yeare 1547. Faithfully
gathered & set forth by Raphaell Holinshed. At London. Imprinted
for John Harrison. 1578.
The first & second volumes of Chronicles, comprising
1. The description & historie of England,
2. The description & historie of Ireland,
3. The description & historie of Scotland:
first collected & published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison,
& others: Now newlie augmented & continued (with manifold matters
of singular note & worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. By John Hooker
aliàs Vowell gent. & others. With convenient Tables at the end of these
volumes. 1587. Bptd in 6 vols. in 1807.
Authorities.
Boswell-Stone, W. G. Shakespeare's Holinshed: the Chronicle & the
Historical Plays compared. 1907.
Courtenay, Thomas Peregrine. Commentaries on Historical Plays of
Shakspeare. 1840.
Furnivall, F. J. Harrison's description of England in Shakspere's youth.
The II & III books. New Shakspere Society. 1877-81.
WILLIAM LAMBARDE.
A Perambulation of Kent. Collected & written (for the most Part) in the
Yeare 1570 . . . and now increased, etc. , 1576. This is the first county
history.
THOMAS LANQUET.
Epitome of Cronicles Continued by Bishop Cooper. 1549 ff.
JOHN LELAND.
Itinerary first published by Thomas Hearne in 1710-12. A second edition is
dated 1744-5, a third edition 1770. The work has been lately edited by
Lucy Toulmin Smith (1906–7). Much use was made of Leland's manu-
script by late topographers, especially by William Burton in his Com-
mentary on Antoninus his Itinerary or Journies of the Roman Empire,
so far as it concerneth Britain (1658).
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531
Authorities.
Bale's Preface and additions to Leland's Laboryouse Journey. 1549.
The Lives of those eminent Antiquaries John Leland, Thomas Hearne, &
Anthony à Wood. 1772.
The introduction to Miss L. T. Smith's edition of the Itinerary.
HUMPHREY LLWYD.
Commentarioli Descriptionis Britannicae Fragmentum. 1572. This was
translated into English, under the title: The Breviary of Britain.
1573.
John NORDEN,
Norden's preparative to his Speculum Britanniæ. A reconciliation of
sundrie propositions by divers persons tendred, concerning the same.
With the first two parts of his Speculum concerning Middlesex and
Hertfordshire. 1596. Bptd, 1723.
Observations concerning Crown Lands and Woods. 1613.
Surveyors dialogue. 1608.
MATTHEW PARKER.
De Antiquitate Ecclesiae et Privilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis cum Archi-
episcopis ejusdem 70. Printed by John Day. 1572.
Flores Historiarum per Matthaeum Westmonasteriensem collecti, praecipuè
de rebus Britannicis ab exordio mundi usque A. D. 1307. 1567–70.
He also published the works of Asser, Gildas, Thomas Walsingham and
others, and, by establishing a Society of Antiquaries, did much to advance the
study of history.
Authority.
Strype, John. The Life & Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canter-
bury. 1711.
WILLIAM PATTEN.
The expedicion into Scotlāde of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward
Duke of Soomerset. 1549.
David POWELL.
The Historie of Cambria. 1584.
The British Histories of Ponticus Virunnins &c. 1585.
JOHN PROCTOR.
The Historie of Wyates rebellion. 1554.
THE HISTORY OF RICHARD III.
This history, generally attributed to Sir Thomas More, was printed in
Grafton's continuation of Hardyng (1543) and in Hall's Chronicle (1548).
It was first published ungarbled and with Sir T. More's works in Rastell's
edition of 1557.
SIR THOMAS SMITH.
De Republica Anglorum: the maner of Governement or policie of the Realme
of England. First printed, 1583. Ed. Alston, L. and Maitland, F. W.
Cambridge, 1906.
Authority.
Strype, John. The Life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith. 1698.
34-2
## p. 532 (#554) ############################################
532
1
Bibliography
John SPEED.
The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons,
Danes & Normans. Their Originals, Maners, Habits, Warres, Coines,
& Seales: With the Successions, Lives, Acts, & Issues of the English
Monarchs from Julius Caesar, unto the Raigne of King James, of famous
Memorie. 1611. Third edition. 1632.
Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain. 1611.
John Stow.
A Summarie of Englysh Chronicles. 1561.
The Chronicles of England from Brute unto this present Yeare of Christ,
collected by John Stowe, Citizen of London. 1580.
The Annales of England faithfully collected out of the most authenticall
Authors, Records, & other Monuments of Antiquitie from the first
inhabitation untill 1592. 1592.
The Annales or a Generall Chronicle of England first by maister John Stow,
and after him continued & augmented with matters forreyne &
domestique, auncient & moderne unto the end of this present yeare
1614 by Edward Howes, gentleman. 1615.
A Survey of London, conteyning the Originall Antiquity, Increase, Moderne
Estate & description of that City, written in the year 1598 by John Stow,
This work was corrected and enlarged by John Strype and brought down
to the present time by careful Hands,' under the title: A Survey of the Cities
of London & Westminster, 1720 and 1754-5, and has lately been edited by
Kingsford, C. L. , 1908.
Authorities.
Aubrey's Brief Lives. Ed. Clark, A. 1898.
Clode's Histories of the Merchant Tailor's Company. 1875, 1888.
Fuller, T. Worthies. 1662.
Gairdner, J. Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, with historical memoranda
by John Stow, etc. Camden Society.
Strype, J. Survey. 1754-5.
[Among worthy county chroniclers may be mentioned Erdeswicke,
Sampson (d. 1603), historian of Staffordshire, whose Survey was edited by
Harwood, T. , in 1820; Burton, William (1575–1645), elder brother of the author
of the Anatomy of Melancholy and author of a Description of Leicestershire;
Charles Wriothesley (1508? -62) who continued the chronicle of Richard
Arnold which was referred to in vol. II. The Camden Society's publi-
cations contain sundry chronicles worthy of note, e. g. the Chronicle of
Calais, in the reigns of Henry VII and VIII to the year 1540, ed. Nichols,
J. G. , 1846; A London Chronicle during the same reigns, ed. Hopper, C. ,
1859; and Polydore Vergil's English History from an early translation,
ed. Ellis, H. , 1846, 1844. Polydore Vergil was a friend of Latimer, Linacre,
More, etc. ; his history was first printed at Basel in 1534 under the title:
Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglicae Historiae Libri XXVI. See Morley's
English Writers, vol. vii. ]
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Chapter XVI
533
CHAPTER XVI
ELIZABETHAN PROSE FICTION
GENERAL AUTHORITIES.
Ashton, J. Romances of Chivalry. 1887.
Bahlsen, L. Spanische Quellen der englischen Litteratur besonders Englands
zu Shakespeares Zeit. Zeitschr. f. vergl. Litteraturgeschichte,n. F. v1,1893.
Bullen, A. H.
Poems, chiefly lyricall from the Romances and Prose Tracts
of the Elizabethan Age. 1890.
Chandler, F. W. Romances of Roguery. (Pt. 1, Picaresque novel in Spain. )
1899. (Bibliography. )
The Literature of Roguery. 2 vols. 1907. (Excellent bibliography. ),
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. Vol. 11. 1897.
Cross, W. L. Development of the English Novel. 1905. (Bibliography. )
Dunlop, J. C. History of Fiction. 2 vols. Rev. by Wilson, H. 1906.
Fitzmaurice-Kelly, J. On Mendoza and Lazarillo de Tormes in Mod. Lang.
Rev. , Jan. 1909.
Greg, W. W. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. (Ch. II, vii. ) 1906.
Hannay, D. The Later Renaissance. Edinburgh and London, 1898.
Hume, M. A. S. Spain, its Greatness and Decay. Cambridge, 1898.
Spanish Influence in English Literature. 1905.
Jusserand, J. J. The English Novel in the time of Shakespeare. Tr. Lee, E.
1890 ff. (Bibliography and illustrations. See esp. the chapters entitled
Before and After Shakespeare, and that on Tudor Times. ]
A Literary History of the English People. (Bk v, chap. iv. ) 1906.
Koeppel, E. Studien zur Geschichte der italienischen Novelle in der
englischen Litt. des xvi Jahrh. Quellen und Forschungen, Lxx.
Strassburg, 1892.
Lee, S. Great Englishmen of the 16th cent. 1904. (For Sidney, etc. )
Morley, H. English Writers. Vol. X. 1893.
Murray, J. A. The Influence of Italian on Eng. Literature during the xvith
and xvilth Cent. Le Bas Prize. Cambridge, 1886.
Raleigh, W. The English Novel. 1904.
Rennert, H. A. Spanish Pastoral Romance. Baltimore, 1892.
Schofield, W. H. English Literature from the Conquest to Chaucer. (For
bibliography of early tales, etc. , pp. 479 ff. See also volumes 1 and 11 of
the present work. ]
Scott, M. A. Translations from the Italian. Publ. of Mod. Lang. Assoc. of
America. 1896.
Stoddard, F. H. The Evolution of the English Novel. 1900.
Tuckerman, B. History of English Prose Fiction. 1882.
Underhill, J. G. Spanish Literature in the England of the Tudors. 1899.
Warren, F. M. History of the Novel previous to the 17th Cent. New York,
1895.
Lazarillo de Tormes. Cornhill Mag. vol. XXXI, pp. 670 ff.
DELONEY.
Halliwell, T. W. The Pleasant History of John Winchcomb. . . [or] Jack of
Newbury, 1859.
Lange, A. F. The Gentle Craft. Registered 1597. (Ed. Introd. and Notes. )
Palaestra, XVIII. Berlin, 1903.
Sievers, R. Thomas Deloney, eine Studie über Balladen-litteratur der Shak-
spere-Zeit nebst Neudruck von Deloney's Roman Jack of Newbury.
Palaestra, XXXVI. Berlin, 1904.
## p. 534 (#556) ############################################
534
Bibliography
Thoms, W. J. Thomas of Reading. (Early Eng. Prose Romances, vol. 1,
pp. 71-178. ) 1858.
(For his ballads and broadsides, see vol. iv of the present work. ]
GREENE.
Adams, jr. , J. Q. The Thracian Wonder in Greene's Menaphon. Mod.
Phil. iri, Jan. 1906.
Adlard, J. E. Defence of Conny Catching. 1859.
Arber, E. Menaphon. Eng. Scholar's Libr. 1890.
Bernhardi, W. Robert Greene's Leben und Schriften. Leipzig, 1874.
Brereton, J. le G. Relation of the Thracian Wonder to Greene's Menaphon.
Mod. Lang. Rev. II, i.
Brydges, Sir Egerton. Groatsworth of Wit. 1889.
Archaica. Greene's Philomela. 1815.
Bullen, A. H. ,
in D. of N. B. [Contains useful bibliography. ]
Delius, N.
The Life & Raigne of King Edward the Sixt. Written by Sir John
Hayward, Knight, Doctor of Law. 1630. A second edition of this work
(1636) includes the begining of the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth. '
Annals of the First Four Years of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Sir John
Hayward, Knt. D. C. L. Edited from a MS in the Harleian Collection by
John Bruce, Esq. , F. S. A. Camden Society. 1840. This contains unpub-
lished matter together with a brief biography of Sir J. Hayward.
RAPHAEL HOLINSHED.
The firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, & Irelande.
Conteyning, the description & Chronicles of England from the first
inhabiting unto the Conquest. The description & Chronicles of Scot-
land, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our
Lorde 1571. The description & Chronicles of Irelande, likewise from
the firste originall of that nation untill the yeare 1547. Faithfully
gathered & set forth by Raphaell Holinshed. At London. Imprinted
for John Harrison. 1578.
The first & second volumes of Chronicles, comprising
1. The description & historie of England,
2. The description & historie of Ireland,
3. The description & historie of Scotland:
first collected & published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison,
& others: Now newlie augmented & continued (with manifold matters
of singular note & worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. By John Hooker
aliàs Vowell gent. & others. With convenient Tables at the end of these
volumes. 1587. Bptd in 6 vols. in 1807.
Authorities.
Boswell-Stone, W. G. Shakespeare's Holinshed: the Chronicle & the
Historical Plays compared. 1907.
Courtenay, Thomas Peregrine. Commentaries on Historical Plays of
Shakspeare. 1840.
Furnivall, F. J. Harrison's description of England in Shakspere's youth.
The II & III books. New Shakspere Society. 1877-81.
WILLIAM LAMBARDE.
A Perambulation of Kent. Collected & written (for the most Part) in the
Yeare 1570 . . . and now increased, etc. , 1576. This is the first county
history.
THOMAS LANQUET.
Epitome of Cronicles Continued by Bishop Cooper. 1549 ff.
JOHN LELAND.
Itinerary first published by Thomas Hearne in 1710-12. A second edition is
dated 1744-5, a third edition 1770. The work has been lately edited by
Lucy Toulmin Smith (1906–7). Much use was made of Leland's manu-
script by late topographers, especially by William Burton in his Com-
mentary on Antoninus his Itinerary or Journies of the Roman Empire,
so far as it concerneth Britain (1658).
## p. 531 (#553) ############################################
Chapter XV
531
Authorities.
Bale's Preface and additions to Leland's Laboryouse Journey. 1549.
The Lives of those eminent Antiquaries John Leland, Thomas Hearne, &
Anthony à Wood. 1772.
The introduction to Miss L. T. Smith's edition of the Itinerary.
HUMPHREY LLWYD.
Commentarioli Descriptionis Britannicae Fragmentum. 1572. This was
translated into English, under the title: The Breviary of Britain.
1573.
John NORDEN,
Norden's preparative to his Speculum Britanniæ. A reconciliation of
sundrie propositions by divers persons tendred, concerning the same.
With the first two parts of his Speculum concerning Middlesex and
Hertfordshire. 1596. Bptd, 1723.
Observations concerning Crown Lands and Woods. 1613.
Surveyors dialogue. 1608.
MATTHEW PARKER.
De Antiquitate Ecclesiae et Privilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis cum Archi-
episcopis ejusdem 70. Printed by John Day. 1572.
Flores Historiarum per Matthaeum Westmonasteriensem collecti, praecipuè
de rebus Britannicis ab exordio mundi usque A. D. 1307. 1567–70.
He also published the works of Asser, Gildas, Thomas Walsingham and
others, and, by establishing a Society of Antiquaries, did much to advance the
study of history.
Authority.
Strype, John. The Life & Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canter-
bury. 1711.
WILLIAM PATTEN.
The expedicion into Scotlāde of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward
Duke of Soomerset. 1549.
David POWELL.
The Historie of Cambria. 1584.
The British Histories of Ponticus Virunnins &c. 1585.
JOHN PROCTOR.
The Historie of Wyates rebellion. 1554.
THE HISTORY OF RICHARD III.
This history, generally attributed to Sir Thomas More, was printed in
Grafton's continuation of Hardyng (1543) and in Hall's Chronicle (1548).
It was first published ungarbled and with Sir T. More's works in Rastell's
edition of 1557.
SIR THOMAS SMITH.
De Republica Anglorum: the maner of Governement or policie of the Realme
of England. First printed, 1583. Ed. Alston, L. and Maitland, F. W.
Cambridge, 1906.
Authority.
Strype, John. The Life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith. 1698.
34-2
## p. 532 (#554) ############################################
532
1
Bibliography
John SPEED.
The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons,
Danes & Normans. Their Originals, Maners, Habits, Warres, Coines,
& Seales: With the Successions, Lives, Acts, & Issues of the English
Monarchs from Julius Caesar, unto the Raigne of King James, of famous
Memorie. 1611. Third edition. 1632.
Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain. 1611.
John Stow.
A Summarie of Englysh Chronicles. 1561.
The Chronicles of England from Brute unto this present Yeare of Christ,
collected by John Stowe, Citizen of London. 1580.
The Annales of England faithfully collected out of the most authenticall
Authors, Records, & other Monuments of Antiquitie from the first
inhabitation untill 1592. 1592.
The Annales or a Generall Chronicle of England first by maister John Stow,
and after him continued & augmented with matters forreyne &
domestique, auncient & moderne unto the end of this present yeare
1614 by Edward Howes, gentleman. 1615.
A Survey of London, conteyning the Originall Antiquity, Increase, Moderne
Estate & description of that City, written in the year 1598 by John Stow,
This work was corrected and enlarged by John Strype and brought down
to the present time by careful Hands,' under the title: A Survey of the Cities
of London & Westminster, 1720 and 1754-5, and has lately been edited by
Kingsford, C. L. , 1908.
Authorities.
Aubrey's Brief Lives. Ed. Clark, A. 1898.
Clode's Histories of the Merchant Tailor's Company. 1875, 1888.
Fuller, T. Worthies. 1662.
Gairdner, J. Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, with historical memoranda
by John Stow, etc. Camden Society.
Strype, J. Survey. 1754-5.
[Among worthy county chroniclers may be mentioned Erdeswicke,
Sampson (d. 1603), historian of Staffordshire, whose Survey was edited by
Harwood, T. , in 1820; Burton, William (1575–1645), elder brother of the author
of the Anatomy of Melancholy and author of a Description of Leicestershire;
Charles Wriothesley (1508? -62) who continued the chronicle of Richard
Arnold which was referred to in vol. II. The Camden Society's publi-
cations contain sundry chronicles worthy of note, e. g. the Chronicle of
Calais, in the reigns of Henry VII and VIII to the year 1540, ed. Nichols,
J. G. , 1846; A London Chronicle during the same reigns, ed. Hopper, C. ,
1859; and Polydore Vergil's English History from an early translation,
ed. Ellis, H. , 1846, 1844. Polydore Vergil was a friend of Latimer, Linacre,
More, etc. ; his history was first printed at Basel in 1534 under the title:
Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglicae Historiae Libri XXVI. See Morley's
English Writers, vol. vii. ]
## p. 533 (#555) ############################################
Chapter XVI
533
CHAPTER XVI
ELIZABETHAN PROSE FICTION
GENERAL AUTHORITIES.
Ashton, J. Romances of Chivalry. 1887.
Bahlsen, L. Spanische Quellen der englischen Litteratur besonders Englands
zu Shakespeares Zeit. Zeitschr. f. vergl. Litteraturgeschichte,n. F. v1,1893.
Bullen, A. H.
Poems, chiefly lyricall from the Romances and Prose Tracts
of the Elizabethan Age. 1890.
Chandler, F. W. Romances of Roguery. (Pt. 1, Picaresque novel in Spain. )
1899. (Bibliography. )
The Literature of Roguery. 2 vols. 1907. (Excellent bibliography. ),
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. Vol. 11. 1897.
Cross, W. L. Development of the English Novel. 1905. (Bibliography. )
Dunlop, J. C. History of Fiction. 2 vols. Rev. by Wilson, H. 1906.
Fitzmaurice-Kelly, J. On Mendoza and Lazarillo de Tormes in Mod. Lang.
Rev. , Jan. 1909.
Greg, W. W. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. (Ch. II, vii. ) 1906.
Hannay, D. The Later Renaissance. Edinburgh and London, 1898.
Hume, M. A. S. Spain, its Greatness and Decay. Cambridge, 1898.
Spanish Influence in English Literature. 1905.
Jusserand, J. J. The English Novel in the time of Shakespeare. Tr. Lee, E.
1890 ff. (Bibliography and illustrations. See esp. the chapters entitled
Before and After Shakespeare, and that on Tudor Times. ]
A Literary History of the English People. (Bk v, chap. iv. ) 1906.
Koeppel, E. Studien zur Geschichte der italienischen Novelle in der
englischen Litt. des xvi Jahrh. Quellen und Forschungen, Lxx.
Strassburg, 1892.
Lee, S. Great Englishmen of the 16th cent. 1904. (For Sidney, etc. )
Morley, H. English Writers. Vol. X. 1893.
Murray, J. A. The Influence of Italian on Eng. Literature during the xvith
and xvilth Cent. Le Bas Prize. Cambridge, 1886.
Raleigh, W. The English Novel. 1904.
Rennert, H. A. Spanish Pastoral Romance. Baltimore, 1892.
Schofield, W. H. English Literature from the Conquest to Chaucer. (For
bibliography of early tales, etc. , pp. 479 ff. See also volumes 1 and 11 of
the present work. ]
Scott, M. A. Translations from the Italian. Publ. of Mod. Lang. Assoc. of
America. 1896.
Stoddard, F. H. The Evolution of the English Novel. 1900.
Tuckerman, B. History of English Prose Fiction. 1882.
Underhill, J. G. Spanish Literature in the England of the Tudors. 1899.
Warren, F. M. History of the Novel previous to the 17th Cent. New York,
1895.
Lazarillo de Tormes. Cornhill Mag. vol. XXXI, pp. 670 ff.
DELONEY.
Halliwell, T. W. The Pleasant History of John Winchcomb. . . [or] Jack of
Newbury, 1859.
Lange, A. F. The Gentle Craft. Registered 1597. (Ed. Introd. and Notes. )
Palaestra, XVIII. Berlin, 1903.
Sievers, R. Thomas Deloney, eine Studie über Balladen-litteratur der Shak-
spere-Zeit nebst Neudruck von Deloney's Roman Jack of Newbury.
Palaestra, XXXVI. Berlin, 1904.
## p. 534 (#556) ############################################
534
Bibliography
Thoms, W. J. Thomas of Reading. (Early Eng. Prose Romances, vol. 1,
pp. 71-178. ) 1858.
(For his ballads and broadsides, see vol. iv of the present work. ]
GREENE.
Adams, jr. , J. Q. The Thracian Wonder in Greene's Menaphon. Mod.
Phil. iri, Jan. 1906.
Adlard, J. E. Defence of Conny Catching. 1859.
Arber, E. Menaphon. Eng. Scholar's Libr. 1890.
Bernhardi, W. Robert Greene's Leben und Schriften. Leipzig, 1874.
Brereton, J. le G. Relation of the Thracian Wonder to Greene's Menaphon.
Mod. Lang. Rev. II, i.
Brydges, Sir Egerton. Groatsworth of Wit. 1889.
Archaica. Greene's Philomela. 1815.
Bullen, A. H. ,
in D. of N. B. [Contains useful bibliography. ]
Delius, N.
