Faithfully
gathered & set forth by Raphaell Holinshed.
gathered & set forth by Raphaell Holinshed.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03
History of Criticism.
Vol.
11, bk iv, chap.
v.
Edinburgh and
London, 1902.
Schelling, F. E. Poetio and Verse Criticism of the reign of Elizabeth. Pub.
Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1891.
Spingarn, J. E. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance.
Part III. New York and London, 1899.
Rhys, E. The Prelude to Poetry. The English Poets in the Defence and
Praise of their own art. 1894(? ).
Wylic, L. J. Studies in the Evolution of English Criticism. Boston, 1894.
CHAPTER XV
CHRONICLERS AND ANTIQUARIES
WILLIAM CAMDEN.
Britannia, sive Florentissimorum Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et
Insularum adjacentium ex interna antiquitate Chorographica Descriptio,
Authore Guilielmo Camdeno 1586.
This work was published in English under the title: Britain, or a Choro-
graphicall Description of the Most flourishing Kingdomes England, Scotland,
& Ireland, & the Islands adjoyning, out of the depth of Antiquitie: Beau-
tified with Mappes of The Severall Shires of England: Written first in Latine
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by William Camden, Clarenceux K. of A. Translated newly into English by
Philemon Holland Doctor in Physick. 1610. Another edition was published
in 1637. Britannia was translated also by Edmund Gibson (1695) and
R. Gough (1789).
Remains concerning Britain. 1604. Rptd by John Russell Smith, 1870.
Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Annales, regnante Elizibetha. The first
part of this work, as far as 1588, was published in 1615, and was translated
into English from the French by Abraham Darcie, under the title: An-
nales, The True and Royall History of the famous Empresse Elizabeth,
Queene of England France & Ireland &c. True Faith's defendresse of
Divine renoune & happy Memory 1625. The second part was published
in 1627 and translated by Thomas Browne of Christchurch: Tomus Alter
et Idem. 1629. A translation of the whole work was made by B. Norton,
Gent. in 1639, and several times reprinted.
[Glover, Robert (1544-88). A great herald, whose labours were of immense
assistance to his successors, and who is worthy of remembrance by the
side of Camden. See especially Thomas Milles's Catalogue of Honor, or
Treasury of True Nobility, 1610. ]
Authorities.
6
Bolton, E. Hypercritica (1618), and rptd. in J. E. Spingarn's Critical Essays
of the Seventeenth Century (1908) contains comments upon Camden,
Speed, Stow and the other writers of chronicles. The author notes the
many 'vast vulgar Tomes, procured for the most part by the husbandry
of Printers, & not by appointment of the Prince or Authority of the
Common-weal.
Brooke, Ralph. A Discoverie of Certain Errores published in Print in the
much commended Britannia 1594. Very Prejudiciall to the Discentes
& Successions of the auncient Nobilitie of this Realme, 1596.
Fuller, T. Holy and Profane State. Cambridge, 1642.
Wood, A. à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. 1820.
RICHARD CAREW.
Survey of Cornwall. 1602.
GEORGE CAVENDISH.
The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, the Great Cardinal of England. 1641.
This was the first edition, and imperfect.
The Life and Death of Thomas Woolsey. 1667. A second and more accurate
edition. Ed. Singer, S. W. 1815, 1827. Kelmscott Press ed. 1893, ed.
Ellis, F. S. , rev. 1899, together with Churchyard's Tragedy of Cardina)
Wolsey from A Mirror for Magistrates.
See also. Who wrote Cavendish's Life of Wolsey? ' by Hunter, J. 1814
JOAN FOXE.
Rerum in ecclesia gestarum, quae postremis et periculosis his temporibus
evenerunt, maximarumque per Europam persecutionum, ac Sanctorum
Dei Martyrum, caeterarumque rerum si quae insignioris exempli sint,
digesti per Regna & nationes Commentarii. Basileae, per Nicolaum
Brylingerum, et Joannem Operinum. 1559.
Actes and Monuments of these latter and perilous dayes, touching matters
of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great
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529
persecutions & horrible troubles, that have bene wrought & practised
by the Romishe Prelates, speciallye in this Realme of England, &
Scotlande, from the yeare of our Lorde a thousande, unto the tyme
nowe present. Gathered and collected according to the true copies &
wrytinges certificatorie as wel of the parties themselves that suffered,
which wer the doers thereof, by John Foxe. Imprinted at London by
John Day, dwellyng over Aldersgate. 1563. Other editions 1570, 1576,
1583, 1596-7, 1618, 1632 and 1641.
Acts and Monuments. Ed. Cattley, S. R. , with a preface by Townsend, George.
8 vols. 1836-41. Ed. Pratt, J. 8 vols. 1877.
Authorities.
Foxe's Life. Attributed to his son and prefixed to the edition of 1641.
Fuller, Thomas. Church History of Britain. 1655.
Maitland, S. R. Six Letters on Foxe's Acts and Monuments. 1873.
Remarks on Cattley's defence of his edition. 1842.
Anthony à Wood's Athenae Oxonienses. 1691. Ed. Bliss, P. 1820.
RICHARD GRAFTON.
An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England, gathered by Richard Grafton,
Citizen of London. 1563.
A Manuell of the Chronicles of Englande from the Creacion of the Worlde to
this Yere of our Lorde 1566.
A Chronicle at large, & meere history of the affayres of Englande, and
Kinges of the same, deduced from the creation of the Worlde, unto the
first habitation of thys islande. 1569. Rptd by Sir H. Ellis in 1809.
EDWARD HALL.
The Union of the two noble and illustrate famelies of Lancastre & Yorke
beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this noble realme,
with all the actes done in bothe of the tymes of the Princes, both of the
one linage and of the other, beginnyng at the tyme of king Henry the
fowerth, the first aucthor of this devision, and so successively proceadyng
to the reigne of the high and prudent prince king Henry the eight, the
undubitate flower and very heire of both the sayd linages.
Tanner, in his Bibliotheca Britannica, says that the first edition of Hall's
Chronicle was printed by Berthelet in 1542. If this be so, no perfect copy of
the edition has survived. Some fragments, in copies belonging to the Univer-
sity of Cambridge and to the Grenville Collection in the British Museum,
are imagined to be of this first edition.
The first known edition is that of 1548, printed by Grafton from the
author's notes. The text may be accepted as authentic. For as much as
a dead man is the author thereof, says Grafton, 'I thought it my duty to
suffer his work to be his own, & have altered nothing therein. ' Another
edition was printed in 1550, and, in 1809, the book was edited neither exactly
por completely by Sir Henry Ellis. See The Lives of the Kings, Henry VIII,
ed. Whibley, C. , 2 vols. 1904.
Authorities.
Ames, J. Typographical Antiquities. 1785. Ed. Dibdin, T. F. 1810-19.
Tanner, T. Bibliotheca Britannica. 1748.
Ward, A. W. Introduction to Henry VI. University Press Shakespeare.
New York, 1907.
SIR John HAYWARD.
The First Part of the Life & raigne of King Henrie the IIII. Extending
to the end of the first yeare of his raigne. Written by J. H. 1599.
E, L, IIL
34
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The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England:
William the first.
William the second.
Henrie the first.
Written by J. H. 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.
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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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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
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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
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of London & Westminster, 1720 and 1754-5, and has lately been edited by
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[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
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.
London, 1902.
Schelling, F. E. Poetio and Verse Criticism of the reign of Elizabeth. Pub.
Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1891.
Spingarn, J. E. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance.
Part III. New York and London, 1899.
Rhys, E. The Prelude to Poetry. The English Poets in the Defence and
Praise of their own art. 1894(? ).
Wylic, L. J. Studies in the Evolution of English Criticism. Boston, 1894.
CHAPTER XV
CHRONICLERS AND ANTIQUARIES
WILLIAM CAMDEN.
Britannia, sive Florentissimorum Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et
Insularum adjacentium ex interna antiquitate Chorographica Descriptio,
Authore Guilielmo Camdeno 1586.
This work was published in English under the title: Britain, or a Choro-
graphicall Description of the Most flourishing Kingdomes England, Scotland,
& Ireland, & the Islands adjoyning, out of the depth of Antiquitie: Beau-
tified with Mappes of The Severall Shires of England: Written first in Latine
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528
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by William Camden, Clarenceux K. of A. Translated newly into English by
Philemon Holland Doctor in Physick. 1610. Another edition was published
in 1637. Britannia was translated also by Edmund Gibson (1695) and
R. Gough (1789).
Remains concerning Britain. 1604. Rptd by John Russell Smith, 1870.
Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Annales, regnante Elizibetha. The first
part of this work, as far as 1588, was published in 1615, and was translated
into English from the French by Abraham Darcie, under the title: An-
nales, The True and Royall History of the famous Empresse Elizabeth,
Queene of England France & Ireland &c. True Faith's defendresse of
Divine renoune & happy Memory 1625. The second part was published
in 1627 and translated by Thomas Browne of Christchurch: Tomus Alter
et Idem. 1629. A translation of the whole work was made by B. Norton,
Gent. in 1639, and several times reprinted.
[Glover, Robert (1544-88). A great herald, whose labours were of immense
assistance to his successors, and who is worthy of remembrance by the
side of Camden. See especially Thomas Milles's Catalogue of Honor, or
Treasury of True Nobility, 1610. ]
Authorities.
6
Bolton, E. Hypercritica (1618), and rptd. in J. E. Spingarn's Critical Essays
of the Seventeenth Century (1908) contains comments upon Camden,
Speed, Stow and the other writers of chronicles. The author notes the
many 'vast vulgar Tomes, procured for the most part by the husbandry
of Printers, & not by appointment of the Prince or Authority of the
Common-weal.
Brooke, Ralph. A Discoverie of Certain Errores published in Print in the
much commended Britannia 1594. Very Prejudiciall to the Discentes
& Successions of the auncient Nobilitie of this Realme, 1596.
Fuller, T. Holy and Profane State. Cambridge, 1642.
Wood, A. à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. 1820.
RICHARD CAREW.
Survey of Cornwall. 1602.
GEORGE CAVENDISH.
The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, the Great Cardinal of England. 1641.
This was the first edition, and imperfect.
The Life and Death of Thomas Woolsey. 1667. A second and more accurate
edition. Ed. Singer, S. W. 1815, 1827. Kelmscott Press ed. 1893, ed.
Ellis, F. S. , rev. 1899, together with Churchyard's Tragedy of Cardina)
Wolsey from A Mirror for Magistrates.
See also. Who wrote Cavendish's Life of Wolsey? ' by Hunter, J. 1814
JOAN FOXE.
Rerum in ecclesia gestarum, quae postremis et periculosis his temporibus
evenerunt, maximarumque per Europam persecutionum, ac Sanctorum
Dei Martyrum, caeterarumque rerum si quae insignioris exempli sint,
digesti per Regna & nationes Commentarii. Basileae, per Nicolaum
Brylingerum, et Joannem Operinum. 1559.
Actes and Monuments of these latter and perilous dayes, touching matters
of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great
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529
persecutions & horrible troubles, that have bene wrought & practised
by the Romishe Prelates, speciallye in this Realme of England, &
Scotlande, from the yeare of our Lorde a thousande, unto the tyme
nowe present. Gathered and collected according to the true copies &
wrytinges certificatorie as wel of the parties themselves that suffered,
which wer the doers thereof, by John Foxe. Imprinted at London by
John Day, dwellyng over Aldersgate. 1563. Other editions 1570, 1576,
1583, 1596-7, 1618, 1632 and 1641.
Acts and Monuments. Ed. Cattley, S. R. , with a preface by Townsend, George.
8 vols. 1836-41. Ed. Pratt, J. 8 vols. 1877.
Authorities.
Foxe's Life. Attributed to his son and prefixed to the edition of 1641.
Fuller, Thomas. Church History of Britain. 1655.
Maitland, S. R. Six Letters on Foxe's Acts and Monuments. 1873.
Remarks on Cattley's defence of his edition. 1842.
Anthony à Wood's Athenae Oxonienses. 1691. Ed. Bliss, P. 1820.
RICHARD GRAFTON.
An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England, gathered by Richard Grafton,
Citizen of London. 1563.
A Manuell of the Chronicles of Englande from the Creacion of the Worlde to
this Yere of our Lorde 1566.
A Chronicle at large, & meere history of the affayres of Englande, and
Kinges of the same, deduced from the creation of the Worlde, unto the
first habitation of thys islande. 1569. Rptd by Sir H. Ellis in 1809.
EDWARD HALL.
The Union of the two noble and illustrate famelies of Lancastre & Yorke
beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this noble realme,
with all the actes done in bothe of the tymes of the Princes, both of the
one linage and of the other, beginnyng at the tyme of king Henry the
fowerth, the first aucthor of this devision, and so successively proceadyng
to the reigne of the high and prudent prince king Henry the eight, the
undubitate flower and very heire of both the sayd linages.
Tanner, in his Bibliotheca Britannica, says that the first edition of Hall's
Chronicle was printed by Berthelet in 1542. If this be so, no perfect copy of
the edition has survived. Some fragments, in copies belonging to the Univer-
sity of Cambridge and to the Grenville Collection in the British Museum,
are imagined to be of this first edition.
The first known edition is that of 1548, printed by Grafton from the
author's notes. The text may be accepted as authentic. For as much as
a dead man is the author thereof, says Grafton, 'I thought it my duty to
suffer his work to be his own, & have altered nothing therein. ' Another
edition was printed in 1550, and, in 1809, the book was edited neither exactly
por completely by Sir Henry Ellis. See The Lives of the Kings, Henry VIII,
ed. Whibley, C. , 2 vols. 1904.
Authorities.
Ames, J. Typographical Antiquities. 1785. Ed. Dibdin, T. F. 1810-19.
Tanner, T. Bibliotheca Britannica. 1748.
Ward, A. W. Introduction to Henry VI. University Press Shakespeare.
New York, 1907.
SIR John HAYWARD.
The First Part of the Life & raigne of King Henrie the IIII. Extending
to the end of the first yeare of his raigne. Written by J. H. 1599.
E, L, IIL
34
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William the first.
William the second.
Henrie the first.
Written by J. H. 1613.
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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.
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He also published the works of Asser, Gildas, Thomas Walsingham and
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study of history.
Authority.
Strype, John. The Life & Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canter-
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David POWELL.
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The British Histories of Ponticus Virunnins &c. 1585.
JOHN PROCTOR.
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This history, generally attributed to Sir Thomas More, was printed in
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SIR THOMAS SMITH.
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