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a similar character and for such writings as Geoffrey of Waterford's (13th cent.) translations and sermons, Angier of St Frideswide's translation of the Dialogues and Life of St Gregory the Great, etc. (c. 1212-4).

Eustache le Moigne, Roman d', pirate fameux du XIII° siècle. Ed. Michel, F.
Paris, 1884, and ed. Förster, W. and Trost, J., Halle, 1891. See Wright,
T., Essays on ... the Literature... of England in the Middle Ages. Vol. II.
1846.
Förster, W. Altfranz. Bibliothek. Heilbronn, 1879 ff. Roman. Bibliothek.
Halle, 1888 ff.
Gaimar, G. Anglo-Norman Metrical Chronicle of the Anglo-Saxon kings.
Ed. Wright, T. Caxton Soc. 1850. L'estorie des Engles. Ed. Hardy,
T. D. and Martin, E. T. Rolls Series. 1888-9. See Meyer, P., in
Romania, XVIII, 314. Gaimar's History of the Britons is not extant.
Garnier de Pont Sainte Maxence. Vie de St Thomas le Martyr (1173). Ed.
Hippeau, C. 1859.

Guillaume le Maréchal, L'Histoire de. Ed. Meyer, P. 3 vols. S.A.T.F. 1891 ff.

Ireland, Norman French Metrical History on the conquest of. Ed. Michel, F. 1837. See Wright, T., Essays on...the Literature...of England in the Middle Ages, vol. 11, 1846.

Jean de Waurin. Croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bret., a present nomme Engleterre [to 1471]. Ed. Hardy, W. and Hardy, First 3 vols. also pub. in

E. L. C. P. Rolls Series. 1864-91. 5 vols.
English by the same editors, Rolls Series, 1864-91.

Jehan le Bel. See vol. 1, p. 478.

Jordan Fantosme. Chronique de la Guerre entre les Anglois et les Escossois, 1173-4. Ed. Howlett, R., in Chron. Steph., Henry II and Richard L. Rolls Series. 1884 ff. Michel, F. Surtees Soc. 1840.

La Marche, A. Lecoy de.

1886.

La chaire fr. au moyen âge. 2nd ed. Paris,

La Tour Landry, Geoffrey de. Ed. A. de Montaiglon, 1854. Wright, T. E.E.T.S. 1868; rev. ed. 1906. An abridged edition of Caxton's version was published in 1902, ed. Rawlings, G. R.

Livere de reis de Brittanie, le, et le livere de reis de Engleterre. Ed. Glover, J. Rolls Series. 1865.

London. Chroniques de (14th cent.). Aungier, G. J. Camden Soc. 1844. Marie de France. See vol. 1, pp. 469, etc.

Méon, D. M. Fabliaux et contes des poètes fr. des xro-xv° siècles (Barbazan's);

new ed. 4 vols. Paris, 1808. Nouveau recueil. 2 vols. Paris, 1823. See also other works on fabliaux in the bibliography to vol. 1, chap. XVII of the present work.

Michel, F. Chroniques anglo-normandes... Xr° and XII° siècles. 3t. Rouen, 1836-40.

Normandy, Narratives of the expulsion of the English from (1449–50). Ed. Stevenson, J. Rolls Series. 1863.

Peter of Langtoft. See vol. I, pp. 478, etc.

Psalters, etc. Ed. Michel, F. Oxford, 1860; and Paris, 1876.

Robert de Gretham, Greetham or Greatham (13th cent.). Compiler of religious works for the use of lay-folk. See Paris, G., Litt. du Moyen Age, § 152; Meyer, P., Les MSS Français de Cambridge, Romania, XXXII, 28.

St Auban, Vie de. Ed. Atkinson, R. 1876.

Samson de Nanteuil. Version of Book of Proverbs. MS Harl. 4388. Suchier, H. and Birch-Hirschfeld, A. Gesch. der franz. Lit. Leipzig, 1900.

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Suchier, H. and Birch-Hirschfeld, A. Reimpredigt. Halle, 1879.
Bibliotheca Normannica. Halle, 1879 ff.

Thaon, P. de. See vol. 1, p. 460.

Twice, Guillaume de. Art de Vénerie. Eng. trans. MS. Brit. Mus. Cott.
Vesp. B. XII. See also ed. MS Phillipps 8336, Middle Hill Press, 1840.
Wace. See vol. 1, pp. 447, etc.

William the Clerk. For the various works that have passed under the name
of this Anglo-Norman thirteenth century poet see Le Roman des Aven-
tures de Fregus, ed. Michel, F., Abbotsford Club, Edinburgh, 1841 (an
Arthurian shepherd boy story); Meon's Fabliaux (see above); Le
Bestiaire divin de G. clerc de Normandie, ed. Hippeau, Ch., Caen, 1852;
Das Tierbuch des norman. Dichters G. le C., Reinsch, R., Leipzig, 1892;
Le Besant de Dieu, ed. Martin, E., Halle, 1869 ('un des plus beaux poèmes
moraux que nous ait laissés le moyen âge,' Piaget, A., in Julleville, t. 11,
182). The Priest and Alison tale would appear to be by another Norman
William.

TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES

1070 Hereward's rising at Ely.
12th cent. ff. Religious plays.
1100-1135. King Henry I.
1119 P. de Thaun's Comput.
c. 1130 P. de Thaun's Bestiaire.
1135-1154 King Stephen.
c.1148 Gaimar's History.

(?) 1149 Vacarius teaches civil law at Oxford.

1154-1189 King Henry II. f.1160-1180 Chrétien de Troyes. 1162 St Thomas à Becket, abp of

Canterbury (murdered, 1170).

c.1167 Canute Song.

1167 Oxford as a studium generale. f.1170 Wace.

c.1173 Garnier de Pont Sainte Maxence.

1173-4 Jordan Fantosme. f.1180 Marie de France. 1189-1199 King Richard Cœur de Lion.

1193-1280 Albertus Magnus.

c. 1196 Ambroise's Hist. de la guerre sainte.

1199-1216 King John. f.1200 Layamon.

12147-1294 Boger Bacon. 1216-1272 King Henry III.

1217 Dominicans settle in Paris. 1221 Dominicans at Oxford.

1224 Franciscans at Oxford and Cambridge.

c. 1226 Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal.

c. 1263-1274

Walter de Merton's foundations at Malden and Oxford. 1265-1321 Dante.

f. 1270-1287 Guido delle Colonne. 1272-1307 King Edward I 12727-1305 Sir William Wallace. 1274 Dominicans at Cambridge. 1274 Foundation of Merton College, Oxford.

1280-1284 Hugo de Balsham's scholars in Cambridge and foundation of Peterhouse.

1298 Battle of Falkirk.

c. 1300-1349? Richard Rolle of Hampole.

1300-1325 Auchinleck MS. 1300P-1352? Laurence Minot. 1304-1374 Petrarch.

1305-1377 The Popes at Avignon. c.1307 Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle. 1307-1327 King Edward II. 1313-1375 Boccaccio.

1314 Battle of Bannockburn. c. 1320-1395 John Barbour. c.1320-1384 John Wyclif. 13257-1408 John Gower.

1326-1412 John Trevisa.

1327-1377 King Edward III.

c. 1330 Nicole Bozon.

1330-1335 Guillaume de Deguileville's Pilgrimages. c.1337-1340? Froissart.

1338 Vows of the Heron. 1340?-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer. c. 1340. Tale of Gamelyn.

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c. 1376-1377 Death of Sir Hew of 1421-1466 John Paston, letter

Eglintoun.

1377-1399 King Richard II. 1378-1417 The Great Schism. 1379-1386 William of Wykeham

founds New College, Oxford. 1379-1471 Thomas à Kempis. 1381 Peasants' revolt: Wat Tyler, John Ball.

1382 The 'earthquake' council. c. 1382 Gower's Vox Clamantis. c. 1383 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.

c. 1384-1387 Fordun's Scotichronicon. c. 1386 Chaucer's Legend of Good Women.

c. 1387 Canterbury Tales begun. 1387 Trevisa's translation of Polychronicon.

1388 Execution of Thomas Usk. 1388 Otterburn (Percy and Douglas).

1390 Confessio Amantis first completed.

1391-1447 Humphrey duke of Gloucester.

1391 Chaucer's Astrolabe. 1393-1464 John Capgrave. 1396 Death of Walter Hylton.

1398 Trevisa's translation of Bartholomaeus.

1399-1413 King Henry IV.

1401 The statute De Heretico Comburendo.

1401 Execution of Sawtrey. 1401-1402 Jacke Upland. 1403 Stationers' guild incorporated. 1405 Archbishop Scrope's revolt. 1406 The English capture Prince

James (James I of Scotland). 1413-1422 King Henry V.

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1480 The first London press (John 1500 King's College, Aberdeen,

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