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Ingulph (d. 1109), abbot of Crowland or Croyland. For the fourteenth and
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Repressor.
Knighton (or Cnitthon), Henry (ft. 1363), chronicler (from the days of
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J. R. Rolls Series. 1889-95.
Lanercost Chronicle (1201-1346), useful for the history of the Border, etc.
Ed. Stevenson, J. 1839. Imbedded in this chronicle, under date 1244, is
the English couplet
Wille Gris, Wille Gris,
Thinche twat you was, and qwat you es,
which refers to the Norfolk peasant boy who went to seek his fortune
possessing naught but a little pig. The swineboy married a rich widow
and he kept his former state before him by a picture of himself and
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Lauder, William. Minor Poems. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. E. E. T. S. XLI,
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Litchfield, Wm. (d. 1447), poet and preacher. His poems are among the
Caius MSS, No. 174, Cambridge. He is said to have written over 3000
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sermons.
Littleton, Sir Thomas (1402-81), author of a work on Tenures, in law-
French, of which it has been said that 'probably no legal treatise ever
combined so much of the substance with so little of the show of learning,
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of statement' (J. M. Rigg, in D. of N. B. ). Littleton's book will be
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Tiptoft, John, earl of Worcester (14272-70), patron of scholars, purchaser
of books, translator of Cicero and as cruel a man as any of the tyrants
of the Italian renascence. Among the scholars whom John Tiptoft
patronised, John Phreas (d. 1465) must not be forgotten. He was one of
the remarkable company of students who sought knowledge in Italy,
before the revival of letters made itself felt in England. And an earlier
patron of Phreas was William Grey of Balliol, bishop of Ely, whose
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William of Drogheda (d. 1245 ? ), scholar of Oxford and canonist. MSS in
Caius College, Cambridge, etc.
William of Ramsey (A. 1219), monk of Crowland, poet and writer of saints'
lives. His Guthlac poem is in the Cambridge University Library
(Dd. xi. 78).
Woodville, A. For the 'balet' or virelai on fickle fortune, composed by the
ill-fated Anthony Woodville, second earl Rivers (14422-83), in Ponte-
fract castle, shortly before he was executed, see Percy's Reliques, Rous's
chronicle, ed. Hearne, and Ritson's Ancient Songs, ed. Hazlitt, W. C. ,
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p. 149.
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secretary to Sir John Fastolf (see Paston Letters). For a complete list
of his writings, of which an Itinerarium, ed. Nasmith, J. , 1778, is, perhaps,
the most important, see the article by Tait, J. , in D. of N. B.
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$ XX; etc.
Anecdota Literaria. Ed. Wright, T. 1844. Contains, in addition to items
previously discussed, fabliaus (The Miller of Abington, etc. ), Goliardic
poems, poems on the Different Classes of Society and miscellaneous
pieces such as Ragman Roll.
Babees Book, The (c. 1475), Aristotle's ABC (c. 1430), Urbanitatis (c. 1460),
Stans Puer ad Mensam, The Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke (c. 1480),
The Bokes of Nurture of Hugh Rhodes (temp. Henry VIII) and John
Russell (c. 1460-70), Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Keruynge (1513),
The Booke of Demeanor (1619), The Boke of Curtasye (1430-40) (see also
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I wold ffayn be a clarke;
but yet hit is a strange werke;
the byrchyn twyggis be so sharpe,
hit makith me have a faynt harte.
what avaylith it me thowgh I say nay?
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