[1206] Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 515, 516. Dated March 23, 1439 (1440, New Style), in Durham MS., C. iv. 3. This is not a literal translation of the letter.

[1207] Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 516. Letter of Candido to Gloucester.

[1208] Of these the two volumes of the two Plinies and the Varro were in Gloucester’s last gift of books to Oxford; Epist. Acad., 235, 236.

[1209] Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 517. Letter of Gloucester to Candido.

[1210] Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 517, 518. Letter of Candido to Gloucester.

[1211] Ibid., xix. 518-520. Letter of Gloucester to Candido.

[1212] Ibid., xix. 519. Letter of Candido to Gloucester. The same merchants had brought Bruni’s translation of the Politics to Gloucester; Leonardi Bruni, Epistolæ, vol. ii. liber VIII. No. 6.

[1213] Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 520. Letter of Gloucester to Candido.

[1214] Cod. Riccardiano, 827, f. 82^vo.

[1215] Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 524. Letter of Candido to Gloucester.

[1216] Ibid., xix. 519. Letter of Candido to Gloucester.

[1217] Probably the third-century grammarian, Censorius, who wrote a still extant work, De Die Natali, is here meant.

[1218] Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 524. Letter of Gloucester to Candido.

[1219] Ibid., xix. 522. Letter of Gloucester to Candido.

[1220] Sassi, Historia Literaria-Typographia, 293. Letter of Candido to Nicomedus Tranchedinus.

[1221] Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 523. Letter of Gloucester to Candido.

[1222] Ibid., xix. 523. Letter of Gloucester to Candido.

[1223] Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 524. Letter of Gloucester to Candido.

[1224] Ibid., xix. 522, 523. Letter of Gloucester to Candido.

[1225] Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 520-522. Letter of Candido to Gloucester.

[1226] Archivio Lombardo, vol. x. Anno xx. p. 432. Letter of Candido to the governor of Milan.

[1227] Ibid., vol. x. Anno xx. p. 66; Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 523, 524.

[1228] Agostini, Scrittori Veneziani, i. 346-372; Voigt, ii. 259.

[1229] Voigt, ii. 39.

[1230] Bodley MS., 3618 (E. Museo, 119), f. 1.

[1231] Bodley MS., 3618 (E. Museo, 119), f. 2.

[1232] Eng. Hist. Review, x. 100, 101. Letter of Piero del Monte to Gloucester.

[1233] Cent Dix Lettres Grecques, 25-28; Voigt, ii. 37, 176, 177.

[1234] Cod. Laurentiano, Plut., lxiii. 30, f. 1^vo. Cf. Cent Dix Lettres Grecques, 25.

[1235] This is undoubtedly ‘Besia’ in the MS. I cannot suggest an interpretation.

[1236] Bodley MS., 3618 (E. Museo, 119), ff. 116-118.

[1237] Cod. Laurentiano, Plut., lxiii. 30, ff. 1^vo., 2^vo.

[1238] Magdalen MS., 37, ff. 1, 2.

[1239] I presume from the way this man is alluded to without comment or explanation that he had come from Alfonso, or at least that through him the two friends had become acquainted by letter.

[1240] Eng. Hist. Review, x. 102, 103. Letter of Gloucester to Alfonso V. of Aragon.

[1241] This MS. is said to be now in the library of Holkham Hall. See Roscoe, Life of Lorenzo de Medici (London, 1846), 64, 485.

[1242] Æn. Sylv., Opera, 602, Epist. cv.

[1243] Beckington Correspondence, i. 223, et passim.

[1244] Rot. Parl., iv. 314.

[1245] See Giuliani, Della Letteratura Veronese, 66; Warton, iii. 51; Voigt, ii. 258.

[1246] Royal MS., 5, F. ii.

[1247] ‘Postquam, serenissime princeps, ex peregrinatione mea redii, quam in visendo hac tua clarissima patria suscipam, etc.’ Royal MS., 5, F. ii. f. 92.

[1248] King’s College, Cambridge, MS., 27, f. 3.

[1249] MS. in a private library, f. 1^vo.

[1250] MS. in a private library, ff. 1, 2.

[1251] Titi Livii Forojuliensis Vita Henrici Quinti, ed. Th. Hearne, Oxon., 1716.

[1252] Rymer, V. i. 37.

[1253] Einstein, 4.

[1254] Warton, iii. 51.

[1255] Livius, 2.

[1256] Ibid.

[1257] Rymer, V. i. 37.

[1258] Voigt, ii. 258.

[1259] Archivio Lombardo, vol. x. Anno. xx. p. 428. Letter of Livius to P. C. Decembrio.

[1260] Epist. Acad., 256.

[1261] Ibid., 177.

[1262] Ibid., 116.

[1263] Ibid., 256. Kymer had been Chancellor formerly for two years (1431-1433); on this occasion he did not resign till 1453. Anthony Wood, History of Oxford, App. 44, 51.

[1264] Rot. Parl., iv. 473. A certain ‘John Swanwych,’ who is described as a ‘Clerk’ of Gloucester, was also a Bachelor of Physick. Rymer, IV. iv. 84.

CHAPTER X

[1265] Admundesham, Annales, ii. 233, and Introduction to vol ii. p. liv.

[1266] Bale (1559 edition), 584.

[1267] Wheathampsted spent much money on other improvements to the monastery as well. Dugdale, Monasticon, 199, 200.

[1268] Bodley MS., F. infra , i. 1. Inscription.

[1269] Arundel MS., 34, f. 666.

[1270] Epist. Acad., 237.

[1271] Amundesham, Annales, ii. App. A. 256.

[1272] Epist. Acad., 235. These two parts of his Granarium which Wheathampsted gave to Humphrey were at one time amongst the books of Thomas Allen of Gloucester Hall. Twyne, Collectanea, in the Oxford University Archives, vol. xviii. p. 123.

[1273] Arundel MS., 34, f. 67.

[1274] See Early English Text Society’s edition, 1893.

[1275] Bale, 582; Leland, Commentarii, 453.

[1276] Oriel MS., xxxii. f. 1^vo. This dedication is printed in Appendix IV. to Capgrave’s De Illustribus Henricis, pp. 239-301.

[1277] Oriel MS., xxxii. f. 1^vo.

[1278] Capgrave, De Illustribus Henricis, 109.

[1279] Bale, 583; Pits, 672.

[1280] Nicolaus Uptonus, De Studio Militari (London, 1654), p. 2.

[1281] History from Marble, i, pp. 79 and clxviii.

[1282] Ordinances, iv, 345.

[1283] Ibid., iii. 99.

[1284] Rot. Pat., 25 Henry VI., Part i. m. 16.

[1285] Beckington Correspondence, ii. 255.

[1286] Beckington Correspondence, passim.

[1287] Foxe, Acts and Monuments, iii. 731.

[1288] Ramsay, ii. 203. No authority is given for the statement.

[1289] See Political Songs, passim . Cf. Stow, 385.

[1290] Harleian MS., 2251, ff. 279^vo-282^vo; Additional MS., 29, 729, ff. 157^vo-161.

[1291] Ashmole MS., 59, ff. 57-59.

[1292] Harleian MS., 2251, ff. 7-8^vo; Additional MS., 34, 360, ff. 65^vo-67^vo.

[1293] Caxton’s edition of the Falls of Princes (1494). Cf. MS. 23 of the Library of the Earl of Jersey at Osterley Park, Hist. MSS. Report, viii. Part i. p. 100.

[1294] Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. français, 12,421.

[1295] On this point see Hortis, 646.

[1296] Minor Poems of Lydgate, Percy Society Publications (London, 1840), ii. 49-51.

[1297] Bodley MS., 263, ff. 5, 6.

[1298] The poem is printed in F. J. Furnivall’s Manners and Meals in Olden Times (Early English Text Society, 1868), pp. 115-198.

[1299] Letters of Queen Margaret, edited by Cecil Monro (Camden Society, 1863), p. 114.

[1300] Amundesham, Annales, ii. Appendix D, p. 295.

[1301] Cotton MS., Claudius, D. I, f. 8^vo; Letter of Wheathampsted to Norton.

[1302] See Warton, iii. 131.

[1302] Bodley MS., Arch. F. d. 1. A photographic reproduction of a MS. once in the possession of Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth-Woodhouse, but now denied to be there. It has been published by A. S. Napier.

[1304] Palladius, p. 66.

[1305] Ibid., p. 85.

[1306] Palladius, p. 22.

[1307] Ibid., pp. 21, 22.

[1308] Bodley MS., Arch. F. d. 1, f. 12; Palladius, p. 22.

[1309] Palladius, p. 21. Cf. St. Albans Chron., i. 12-17.

[1310] Epist. Acad., 103.

[1311] Epist. Acad., 198-241.

[1312] Munimenta Acad., 266.

[1313] Ibid., 277-279.

[1314] Epist. Acad., 152.

[1315] Ibid., 106.

[1316] Ibid., 201-211.

[1317] Ibid., 645.

[1318] Munimenta Acad., 333-335; Epist. Acad., 266.

[1319] Epist. Acad., 61.

[1320] Ibid., 77-79.

[1321] Beckington Correspondence, ii. 256-258.

[1322] Epist. Acad., 162-168.

[1323] Ibid., 61, 62.

[1324] Epist. Acad., 64, 65.

[1325] Ibid., 105, 196.

[1326] Ibid., 152.

[1327] Ibid., 35-37.

[1328] Beckington Correspondence, ii. 249, 250; Epist. Acad., 110.

[1329] Epist. Acad., 115-133.

[1330] Ibid., 134, 135.

[1331] Ibid., 136.

[1332] Epist. Acad., 155-157.

[1333] Ibid., 139, 140. It was also through Gloucester’s influence that Bedford was induced to promise to endow his lectureships; Ibid., 81-83, 95.

[1334] Ibid., 152, 153.

[1335] Munimenta Acad., 266, 267.

[1336] Epist. Acad., 114, 115.

[1337] The numbers are variously stated in different letters as 120, 126, and 129. This last corresponds with the number of books in the indenture; Ibid., 179-183.

[1338] Ibid., 177-179, 184.

[1339] Ibid., 177-179. This was not the first time that Gloucester had been likened to Julius Cæsar.

[1340] Epist. Acad., 184.

[1341] Munimenta Acad., 758; Epist. Acad., 179.

[1342] Epist. Acad., 198, 204, 205.

[1343] Ibid., 232-237. The indenture mentions one hundred and thirty-five volumes as the total, but only one hundred and thirty-four are given in the list.

[1344] Ibid., passim.

[1345] Additional MS., 4608, f. 100, 100^vo.

[1346] By counting the same items more than once Anthony Wood brings the total to five hundred and thirty-nine; Wood, History of the Antiquities of the University of Oxford, 914, 915.

[1347] Munimenta Acad., 261-266.

[1348] Ibid., 326-328; Epist. Acad., 188-191.

[1349] Epist. Acad., 245.

[1350] Epist. Acad., 245, 246.

[1351] Ibid., 533.

[1352] It has been stated that these books were ultimately obtained, but there is no reason to believe this, though ten years later thirteen volumes, originally bequeathed by some one, were recovered; Epist. Acad., 483. Cf. Wood, History of the Antiquities of the University of Oxford, 915. In 1453 we hear that all the volumes of this bequest were scattered in private hands; Epist. Acad., 318, 319.

[1353] Epist. Acad., 254.

[1354] Munimenta Acad., 735.

[1355] Munimenta Acad., 376.

[1356] Ibid., 329, 330; Epist. Acad., 256.

[1357] Epist. Acad., 241.

[1358] Ibid., 178.

[1359] Ibid., 198.

[1360] See Macray, Annals of Bodleian, 13.

[1361] On 1st March 1544 a certain John Stanshawe, gentleman, stole from the church of St. Mary ‘unam Zonam de argent. aurat. voc. le Duke Humfrey’s gyrdyll.’ Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII. (London, 1905), vol. xx. Part 1. p. 655.

[1362] Epist. Acad., 373. Letter of the University of Oxford to Wheathampsted.

[1363] Leland, Collectanea, iii. 58; Hearne, MS. Diary, xxxvi. f. 199. It is probable that this motto was used by Gilbert Kymer. It is found stamped on the binding of a medical work written for him and now preserved in the Bodleian Library (Laud MS., 558). Another binding which encloses another medical treatise written by the same scribe, and presumably also for Kymer, now in the Merton College Library, bears the same legend. (Merton College MS., 268.) My attention has been drawn to this by Mr. Gibson of the Bodleian Library.

[1364] The books alluded to are to be found in the indentures printed in Epist. Acad., passim .

[1365] Leland, Commentarii, 453.

[1366] Livius, 2.

[1367] Basin, i. 189.

[1368] Capgrave, De Illustribus Henricis, 109.

[1369] Lincoln MS., 106, f. 359^vo.

[1370] See Appendix A.

[1371] Bibliothèque de Ste. Geneviève, MS. français, 777.

[1372] Cambridge University Library, MS. Ee. 2, 17.

[1373] See letters in Beckington Correspondence, i. 283, 284, 290-293.

[1374] Epist. Acad., 246.

[1375] The book borrowed from Oxford was a copy of the Phædrus of Plato. In the Epistolæ Academicæ this volume is called the ‘Phædo,’ but a reference to the entry in the Register shows it to be a misprint for the Phædrus, a mistake first discovered by Mr. Gibson of the Bodleian Library.

[1376] Cambridge University Library, MS. Ee. 2, 17.

[1377] Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. français, 12,583.

[1378] Cotton MS., Nero, E. v.

[1379] Royal MS., 19, C. iv.

[1380] Oriel College MS., xxxii.

[1381] Harleian MS., 33; King’s College MS., 27.

[1382] Egerton MS., 617, 618; Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. français, 2.

[1383] For a description of these volumes see Appendix A.

[1384] Leland tells us that Gloucester received many beautiful illuminated books as presents from religious houses. Collectanea, iii. 58.

[1385] Hist. MSS. Rep., v. 517, and xi. 174.

[1386] Oriel College MS., xxxii.

[1387] Corpus Christi College MS., ccxliii.

[1388] Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. latin, 8537.

[1389] Bodley MS., Hatton, 36.

[1390] Bibliothèque de Ste. Geneviève, MS. français, 777.

[1391] Bibliothèque Nationale MS., français, 12,421.

[1392] Cambridge University Library, MS. Ee. 2, 17.

[1393] Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. français, 2.

[1394] Bale (1559 ed.), 583.

[1395] Arundel MS. 60, ff. 277^vo-287^vo. Cf. Tanner, Bib. Brit., 420, 421.

[1396] Einstein, 15.

[1397] See Vespasiano, 238; and Sir Arthur Collins’s Collections for the Family of Holles (1752), 52, 53.

[1398] Leland, Commentarii, 462.

[1399] Above, p. 351.

[1400] Hearne’s Introduction to Peter Langtoft’s Chronicle (Oxford, 1725), p. xx.