ter beyond dispute, he undertook a perilous journey thither in disguise, and after much difficulty, bore it off in triumph; exhibiting it successively to Henry V. and VI. and lastly to Edward IV.

HALL.

EDWARD HALL was born in London, (in what year is not recorded,) and educated at Eton school; whence he was removed to King's College, Cambridge, and subsequently entered as student at Gray's Inn. Fuller says that he became common sergeant (by which he probably means recorder,) of London; for his exemplary conduct in which office, he was afterwards advanced to be one of the judges in the Sheriff's Court. He died at a very advanced age in 1547.

Hall compiled a Chronicle of the wars between the two Roses, entitled-" The Union of the two noble and illustre families of Lancaster and York, being long in continual dissention for the crown of this noble realm, with all the acts done in both the times of the princes, both of the one lineage and of the

other; beginning at the time of king Henry IV. the first author of this divison, and so successively proceeding, to the reign of the high and prudent prince, king Henry VIII. the indubitate flower, and very heir of both the said lineages whereunto is added to every king a several table." The work is dedicated to Henry VIII. and was printed by Grafton in 1548; also in 1550.

The following is a list of his authorities.

LATIN AUTHORS.

1. Polychronicon. 2. Cronica Cronicarum, 3. Nauclerus. 4. Polydorus. 5. Paulus Emilius. 6. Voluteranus. 7. Gauguinus. 8. Albertus Krantz. 9. Michael Ricius. 10. Hector Boetius. 11. Johannes Major. 12. Abbas Wyssenbergensis. 13. Carion. 14. Supplimentum Cronicarum. 15. Gesta Tholosanorum. 16. Cronica Brabancie.

FRENCH AUTHORS.

1. Enquerant de Munstrellet.

2. Jean Bu

chet. 3. Jean Mayer de Belget. 4. Argenton. 5. Le Mere des Histories. 6. Les Annales de

France. 7. Les Annales de Aquitayne. 8. Les Croniqz de Britayne. 9. Giles Corozett. 10. Les Croniques de Normandi. 11. Le Rosarie. 12. Le Genolagie des Roys.

ENGLISH WRITERS.

1. Trevisa. 2. Fabian. 3. Sir Thomas More. 4. Caxton. 5. John Harding. 6. The Chronicles of London. 7. John Basset. S. Balantyne; and "divers other pamphlets, the names of whom are to most men unknowen."

In an advertisement to the reader, Grafton informs us that Hall carried his history no farther than the 24th year of Henry VIII. "The rest, (says he,) he left noted in divers and many pamphlets and papers, which so diligently and truly as I could, I gathered the same together, and have in such wise compiled them, as may after the said years appear in this work; but utterly without any addition of mine."

"The names of the histories contained in this volume."

1. An introduction into the division of the two houses of Lancaster and York. 2. The unquiet time of king Henry IV. 3. The victorious acts of king Henry V. 4. The troublous season of Henry VI. 5. The prosperous reign

of king Edward IV. 6. The pitiful life of king Edward V. 7. The tragical doings of king Richard III. 8. The politic governance of king Henry VII. 9. The triumphant reign of king Henry VIII.

The

passage which follows, presents the reader with a specimen of the youthful diversions of Henry :

On May Day then next following, in the second year of his reign, his grace being young, and willing not to be idle, rose in the morning very early to fetch may, or green boughs, himself fresh and richly apparelled; and clothed all his knights, squires, and gentlemen in white satin; and all his guard and yeomen of the crown in white sarsenet; and so went every man with his bow and arrows shooting to the wood; and so repaired again to the court, every man with a green bough in his cap; and at his returning, ' many hearing of his going a-maying, were desirous to see him shoot: for at that time his grace shot as strong, and as great a length, as any of his guard. There came to his grace a certain man with bow and arrows, and desired his grace to take the master of him, and to see him shoot: for at that time his grace was contented. The man put his one foot in his bosom, and so did shoot, and shot a very good