Illustrium
majoris Britanniae scriptorum summarium.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02
]
CHAPTER XII
ENGLISH PROSE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. I
PECOCK. FORTESCUE. THE PASTON LETTERS.
Edward, duke of York. The Master of Game. Ed. Baillie-Grohmann,
W. A. and F. 1904. Privately printed.
CAPGRAVE.
Works and Critical Accounts.
Chronicle of England. Ed. Hingeston, F. C. Rolls Series. 1858.
Liber de Illustribus Henricis. Ed. Hingeston, F. C. Rolls Series. 1858.
Also translation, Book of the Illustrious Henries. Ed. Hingeston, F. C.
Rolls Series. 1858.
Nova Legenda Angliae. MSS in York Minster library, eto. printed by Wynkyn
de Worde, 1516. [Cf. the earlier writings of Goscelin (A. 1099), an indus-
trious collector of materials for saints' lives. Hist. Litt. de France, viii. ]
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Bibliography
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6
St Katharine, Life of. Ed. Horstmann, C. Forewords by Farnivall, F. J.
E. E. T. S. 1893.
Leland. De Scriptoribus Britannicis, sub nom. for Latin Works.
Tanner. Bibliotheca Brit. -Hiberniae. (See also D. of N. B. for MSS, etc. )
Ten Brink, B. Hist. Eng. Lit. Vol. III, pp. 17 ff. 1902.
Capgrave's Lives of St Augustine (of Hippo) and St Gilbert 'of Sempyng-
ham,' 1451, are extant in a MS believed to be holograph. Brit. Mus. Add. MS
36,704. The former he was begged by a noble gentlewoman to write for her,
þat is to sey to translate hir treuly'; the latter was 'translat in the same
forme," saue sum addiciones,' at the prayer of Nicholas Reysby, Master of the
order of St Gilbert of S. , and designed for the anchoresses of that order. It
is dated 1451, by J. C. amonge doctouris lest,' and is mainly a string of
St Gilbert's miracles. Neither of the Latin originals is now known. The
style is clear, somewhat more colloquial than that of the Annals and less com-
pressed; duplicates are few, e. g. 'the grave or else the sepulture' of St G.
Spelling is remarkably consistent. Capgrave appends a translated summary
of his sermon on the various Augustinian orders, preached in Cambridge,
1422, but revised later, for Reysby and others who wished to know 'diffusely'
of the subject. See New Palaeographical Society's Publications, Part II
(1905), with facsimile. The two lives are being edited for the E. E. T. S.
by J. J. Munro, together with portions of Capgrave's Life of St Norbert,
in verse, the holograph MS of which is in the Phillipps collection.
PECOCK.
A. Works (printed).
The Book of Faith. Second part and summary of first part, ed. Wharton, Hy.
Blackletter. 1688. An edition by Morrison, J. L. , is in preparation, from
MS Trinity Coll. Camb. B 1445.
The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy. Ed. Babington, C.
2 vols. Rolls Series. 1860. With introduction and bibliography. The
standard work on the whole subject of Pecock and his works.
B. Works (in MS only).
The Donet. Bodleian Library, No. 916. Also a transcript, James MSS in
Bodleian, No. 14.
The Follower to the Donet. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Reg. 17 D. IX.
The Poor Men's Mirror, or Outdraught of the Donet. In the Library of Lord
Amherst of Hackney, formerly in Tennison’s. Excerpts by Wharton,
Hy. , in Lambeth MSS, No. 594.
The Reule of Cristen Religioun. Phillipps collection.
(For list of lost works see Babington, Introd. to Repressor. )
C. Contemporary Accounts.
An English Chronicle. (Cronycullys of England. ) Ed. Gairdner, J. , in
Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles. Camden Soc. sub an. 1457, for
trial and abjuration. Full account, copied by Stow, Annals, and from
Stow by Holinshed.
Chronicle of the Grey Friars. In Monumenta Franciscana. Vol. II. Ed.
Howlett. Rolls Series. 1882. sub an. 1457, for Pecock's abjuration.
See also Wilkins, Concilia, vol. II, p. 576.
Gascoigne, Thomas. Liber Veritatum. MS in Lincoln College, Oxford.
Extracts in ‘Gascoigne’s Loci e Libro Veritatum. ' Ed. Rogers, J. E. P.
Oxford, 1881. Contains much information by a bitter enemy.
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481
Historical MSS Commission. 12th Report, Appendis, Part 1x (1891), pp.
385, 584.
Rolls of Parliament. Vol. v, p. 279.
Whethamstede, Registrum Abbat. Johannis. Ed. Riley, H. T. 2 vols. Rolls
Series. 1872-3. Also, but less correct, in T. Hearne’s Duo Rerum Angli-
carum Scriptores Veteres, 1732, vol. II. The view of a bitter enemy.
D. Works of Reference.
(Leland, Comment. de Scriptoribus; Foxe, Comment. Rerum; and Wharton,
Hist. Angl. Ecclesia are erroneous. )
Bale, J.
Illustrium majoris Britanniae scriptorum summarium. Ed. Poole
and Bateson. Anecdota Oxon. Med. and Mod. Ser. 4. Pt. ix. Oxford,
1902.
Baronius Annales Eccles. vol. XXIX (i. e. Raynaldus, vol. x), sub an. 1459, for
Pius II's condemnation.
Le Nove. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Ed. Hardy, T. D. Oxford, 1854.
Vol. 1, p. 71, St Asaph; p. 247, Chichester. For references to records for
promotion, etc.
Tanner, T. Bibl. Britan. Hibern. Good references. Also sub ‘Regnum'
for Gascoigne.
Wharton, H. Hist. Episc. . . . Londin. . . . Assavensis. 1540. Has useful
references.
E. Modern Accounts.
Hook, W. F. Lives of Archbishops of Canterbury. sub Stafford and
Bourchier for Pecock's ultramontane attitude, and Sermon.
Lewis, John. Life of the Learned and Right Reverend Reynold Pecock,
S. T. P. Oxford, 1820. Also in same author's Life of Wyclif, 1820. Full.
Useful extracts, based on Waterland.
Waterland, D. Works. Ed. van Mildert. Oxford, 1856. Vol. vi (Letters
to Lewis). Extracts and bibliography in notes. See also ed. 1828, vol. x.
Wood, Anthony. Ed. Gutch, J. Hist. and Antiquities (Annals) of University
of Oxford. sub an. 1457. Oxford, 1786–96.
F. Critical Appreciations.
Gairdner, J. and Spedding, J. Studies in English History. Edinburgh,
1881.
Jusserand, J. J. Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais. Vol. 1. Paris,
1894. English trans. 1895.
Morley, H. English Writers. Vol. VI. 1890. [Also for Fortescue, Cap-
grave, etc. ]
Ten Brink, B. Geschichte der englischen Literatur. Vol 11. 2 vols. Strass-
burg, 1893. English trans. Robinson, W. C. 1893.
FORTESCUE.
Sir John Fortescue his Life and Works. Ed. Lord CI nont. 1869. 2 vols.
(De Natura Legis Naturae (1461-3); De Laudibus legum Angliae (1471);
De Titulo Edwardi Com. Marchiae; Defensio juris Domus Lancastriae;
A Declaration upon certayn Wrytinges (1471-3); Dialogue between
Understanding and Faith (1471) etc. )
On the Governance of England. Ed. Plummer, O. With introduction, etc.
Oxford, 1885. The best authority on Fortescue.
E. L. II.
31
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482
Bibliography
Foss, E. The Judges of England, 1848-64, 9 vols. , vol. iv.
Taine, H. A. History of English Literature. Eng. trans. vol. 1, bk, i, chap. 11,
$ viü. 1906.
DEVOTIONAL AND DIDACTIC WORKS.
De Imitatione Christi. Ed. Ingram, J. K. E. E. T. S. Ex. Ser. LXIII. 1893.
The early translation, mid-15th century, also version by
on and
the Lady Margaret.
Gesta Romanorum. Translation, c. 1440. Wynkyn de Worde. 1524? Also
ed. by Madden, Sir F. , Roxburghe Club, 1838; Herrtage, S. J. ,
E. E. T. S. Ex. Ser. xxxIII, 1879, with notes on manuscripts. On the
whole subject, see Oesterley, H. , Berlin, 1872, who discusses date of
original compilation and considers it to be English.
Hylton or Hilton, Walter. 1. Scala Perfectionis. 2. Devout Book to a
temporal man. 3. Devout Treatise of the song of angels. Early
editions by W. de Worde (1 and 2), 1494, 1519, 1525, 1533; Pynson (1
and 2), 1506, (3) 1521; Notary, Julian, 1507; modern editions by Cressy, S.
(1 and 2), 1659; Guy, R. E. (1 and 2), London, Dublin and Derby,
1869 (good preface and notes); and Dalgairns, J. B. , 1901, reprint of
Cressy's text. See D. of N. B. for MSS; also Inge, W. R. , Studies
of English Mystics, 1905.
Juliana of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love. First printed by Cressy,
Dom 8. , 1670, reprinted 1845; modern editions by Warrack, Grace, 1901;
and Tyrrell, Geo. , S. J. , 1902; also Collins, Hy. , London and Derby, 1877.
See Blomefield's Hist.
CHAPTER XII
ENGLISH PROSE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. I
PECOCK. FORTESCUE. THE PASTON LETTERS.
Edward, duke of York. The Master of Game. Ed. Baillie-Grohmann,
W. A. and F. 1904. Privately printed.
CAPGRAVE.
Works and Critical Accounts.
Chronicle of England. Ed. Hingeston, F. C. Rolls Series. 1858.
Liber de Illustribus Henricis. Ed. Hingeston, F. C. Rolls Series. 1858.
Also translation, Book of the Illustrious Henries. Ed. Hingeston, F. C.
Rolls Series. 1858.
Nova Legenda Angliae. MSS in York Minster library, eto. printed by Wynkyn
de Worde, 1516. [Cf. the earlier writings of Goscelin (A. 1099), an indus-
trious collector of materials for saints' lives. Hist. Litt. de France, viii. ]
## p. 480 (#498) ############################################
480
Bibliography
8
6
St Katharine, Life of. Ed. Horstmann, C. Forewords by Farnivall, F. J.
E. E. T. S. 1893.
Leland. De Scriptoribus Britannicis, sub nom. for Latin Works.
Tanner. Bibliotheca Brit. -Hiberniae. (See also D. of N. B. for MSS, etc. )
Ten Brink, B. Hist. Eng. Lit. Vol. III, pp. 17 ff. 1902.
Capgrave's Lives of St Augustine (of Hippo) and St Gilbert 'of Sempyng-
ham,' 1451, are extant in a MS believed to be holograph. Brit. Mus. Add. MS
36,704. The former he was begged by a noble gentlewoman to write for her,
þat is to sey to translate hir treuly'; the latter was 'translat in the same
forme," saue sum addiciones,' at the prayer of Nicholas Reysby, Master of the
order of St Gilbert of S. , and designed for the anchoresses of that order. It
is dated 1451, by J. C. amonge doctouris lest,' and is mainly a string of
St Gilbert's miracles. Neither of the Latin originals is now known. The
style is clear, somewhat more colloquial than that of the Annals and less com-
pressed; duplicates are few, e. g. 'the grave or else the sepulture' of St G.
Spelling is remarkably consistent. Capgrave appends a translated summary
of his sermon on the various Augustinian orders, preached in Cambridge,
1422, but revised later, for Reysby and others who wished to know 'diffusely'
of the subject. See New Palaeographical Society's Publications, Part II
(1905), with facsimile. The two lives are being edited for the E. E. T. S.
by J. J. Munro, together with portions of Capgrave's Life of St Norbert,
in verse, the holograph MS of which is in the Phillipps collection.
PECOCK.
A. Works (printed).
The Book of Faith. Second part and summary of first part, ed. Wharton, Hy.
Blackletter. 1688. An edition by Morrison, J. L. , is in preparation, from
MS Trinity Coll. Camb. B 1445.
The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy. Ed. Babington, C.
2 vols. Rolls Series. 1860. With introduction and bibliography. The
standard work on the whole subject of Pecock and his works.
B. Works (in MS only).
The Donet. Bodleian Library, No. 916. Also a transcript, James MSS in
Bodleian, No. 14.
The Follower to the Donet. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Reg. 17 D. IX.
The Poor Men's Mirror, or Outdraught of the Donet. In the Library of Lord
Amherst of Hackney, formerly in Tennison’s. Excerpts by Wharton,
Hy. , in Lambeth MSS, No. 594.
The Reule of Cristen Religioun. Phillipps collection.
(For list of lost works see Babington, Introd. to Repressor. )
C. Contemporary Accounts.
An English Chronicle. (Cronycullys of England. ) Ed. Gairdner, J. , in
Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles. Camden Soc. sub an. 1457, for
trial and abjuration. Full account, copied by Stow, Annals, and from
Stow by Holinshed.
Chronicle of the Grey Friars. In Monumenta Franciscana. Vol. II. Ed.
Howlett. Rolls Series. 1882. sub an. 1457, for Pecock's abjuration.
See also Wilkins, Concilia, vol. II, p. 576.
Gascoigne, Thomas. Liber Veritatum. MS in Lincoln College, Oxford.
Extracts in ‘Gascoigne’s Loci e Libro Veritatum. ' Ed. Rogers, J. E. P.
Oxford, 1881. Contains much information by a bitter enemy.
6
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Chapter XII
481
Historical MSS Commission. 12th Report, Appendis, Part 1x (1891), pp.
385, 584.
Rolls of Parliament. Vol. v, p. 279.
Whethamstede, Registrum Abbat. Johannis. Ed. Riley, H. T. 2 vols. Rolls
Series. 1872-3. Also, but less correct, in T. Hearne’s Duo Rerum Angli-
carum Scriptores Veteres, 1732, vol. II. The view of a bitter enemy.
D. Works of Reference.
(Leland, Comment. de Scriptoribus; Foxe, Comment. Rerum; and Wharton,
Hist. Angl. Ecclesia are erroneous. )
Bale, J.
Illustrium majoris Britanniae scriptorum summarium. Ed. Poole
and Bateson. Anecdota Oxon. Med. and Mod. Ser. 4. Pt. ix. Oxford,
1902.
Baronius Annales Eccles. vol. XXIX (i. e. Raynaldus, vol. x), sub an. 1459, for
Pius II's condemnation.
Le Nove. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Ed. Hardy, T. D. Oxford, 1854.
Vol. 1, p. 71, St Asaph; p. 247, Chichester. For references to records for
promotion, etc.
Tanner, T. Bibl. Britan. Hibern. Good references. Also sub ‘Regnum'
for Gascoigne.
Wharton, H. Hist. Episc. . . . Londin. . . . Assavensis. 1540. Has useful
references.
E. Modern Accounts.
Hook, W. F. Lives of Archbishops of Canterbury. sub Stafford and
Bourchier for Pecock's ultramontane attitude, and Sermon.
Lewis, John. Life of the Learned and Right Reverend Reynold Pecock,
S. T. P. Oxford, 1820. Also in same author's Life of Wyclif, 1820. Full.
Useful extracts, based on Waterland.
Waterland, D. Works. Ed. van Mildert. Oxford, 1856. Vol. vi (Letters
to Lewis). Extracts and bibliography in notes. See also ed. 1828, vol. x.
Wood, Anthony. Ed. Gutch, J. Hist. and Antiquities (Annals) of University
of Oxford. sub an. 1457. Oxford, 1786–96.
F. Critical Appreciations.
Gairdner, J. and Spedding, J. Studies in English History. Edinburgh,
1881.
Jusserand, J. J. Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais. Vol. 1. Paris,
1894. English trans. 1895.
Morley, H. English Writers. Vol. VI. 1890. [Also for Fortescue, Cap-
grave, etc. ]
Ten Brink, B. Geschichte der englischen Literatur. Vol 11. 2 vols. Strass-
burg, 1893. English trans. Robinson, W. C. 1893.
FORTESCUE.
Sir John Fortescue his Life and Works. Ed. Lord CI nont. 1869. 2 vols.
(De Natura Legis Naturae (1461-3); De Laudibus legum Angliae (1471);
De Titulo Edwardi Com. Marchiae; Defensio juris Domus Lancastriae;
A Declaration upon certayn Wrytinges (1471-3); Dialogue between
Understanding and Faith (1471) etc. )
On the Governance of England. Ed. Plummer, O. With introduction, etc.
Oxford, 1885. The best authority on Fortescue.
E. L. II.
31
## p. 482 (#500) ############################################
482
Bibliography
Foss, E. The Judges of England, 1848-64, 9 vols. , vol. iv.
Taine, H. A. History of English Literature. Eng. trans. vol. 1, bk, i, chap. 11,
$ viü. 1906.
DEVOTIONAL AND DIDACTIC WORKS.
De Imitatione Christi. Ed. Ingram, J. K. E. E. T. S. Ex. Ser. LXIII. 1893.
The early translation, mid-15th century, also version by
on and
the Lady Margaret.
Gesta Romanorum. Translation, c. 1440. Wynkyn de Worde. 1524? Also
ed. by Madden, Sir F. , Roxburghe Club, 1838; Herrtage, S. J. ,
E. E. T. S. Ex. Ser. xxxIII, 1879, with notes on manuscripts. On the
whole subject, see Oesterley, H. , Berlin, 1872, who discusses date of
original compilation and considers it to be English.
Hylton or Hilton, Walter. 1. Scala Perfectionis. 2. Devout Book to a
temporal man. 3. Devout Treatise of the song of angels. Early
editions by W. de Worde (1 and 2), 1494, 1519, 1525, 1533; Pynson (1
and 2), 1506, (3) 1521; Notary, Julian, 1507; modern editions by Cressy, S.
(1 and 2), 1659; Guy, R. E. (1 and 2), London, Dublin and Derby,
1869 (good preface and notes); and Dalgairns, J. B. , 1901, reprint of
Cressy's text. See D. of N. B. for MSS; also Inge, W. R. , Studies
of English Mystics, 1905.
Juliana of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love. First printed by Cressy,
Dom 8. , 1670, reprinted 1845; modern editions by Warrack, Grace, 1901;
and Tyrrell, Geo. , S. J. , 1902; also Collins, Hy. , London and Derby, 1877.
See Blomefield's Hist.
