Aachen, 74

Achilles, in Confesssio Amantis, 148

Achitophel, in The Palice of Honour, 260,
261

Acis and Galatea, in Confessio Amantis,
147, 151

Activa-Vita, in Piers the Plowman, 26, 27
Adam, 103

of Usk (f. 1400), 496
Adam, in The Golden Legend, 385

Bell, Clim of the Clough, and
William of Cloudesley, 408, 416, 501
Adamnan, St (625?-704), 131
Addison, J., 163, 192, 415
Adela of Louvain, 419

Admetus, in The Court of Love, 220
Adraien van Berghen, printer, of Antwerp,
320

Adria, in the tale of Colkelbie's sow, 126
Adrian, in Confessio Amantis, 151
Aeneid, 175, 816

Aesop's Fables, 245, 263, 814, 834
Agamemnon, in Confessio Amantis, 148
Age, in The Parlement of the Thre Ages,

87; in The Passetyme of Pleasure, 226;
in Piers the Plowman, 25

Agincourt, battle of, 423; poems on, 499,
501

Alboin, in Confessio Amantis, 151
Alceone, in Confessio Amantis, 151
Alcestis, in The Legend of Good Women,
176; in The Court of Love, 220
Alcook, John, bp of Ely (1430–1500), 325,
855, 858

Aleluyd, 74

Aldingar, Sir, 412

Alexander III (of Scotland), 100, 101,
109

de Villa Dei, 359, 866; Doctrinale
Puerorum, 363

Sir William (1567?-1640), 95
the Great (Secreta Secretorum), 801;
legends of, 112

Alexander, The Buik of, 104

to Aristotle, The Letter of, 80
Alexandri, Historia, 151
Alexandria, 18, 131

Alfred, king, 341; Boethius, 186
of Beverley (f. 1148), 76
Alithia (Philosophy), in Wyclif's Tria-
logus, 65

Allan-a-Maut, 279

Allison Gross, 414

Alma redemptoris mater, in Chaucer's
The Prioress's Tale, 859

Alne, Robert, Fellow of Peterhouse, 866.
Alps, the, 119

Amalekites, 10

Ambroise, Histoire de la Guerre Sainte,
420

Ambrose, St, 265

in The Example of Virtue, 227
America, first English book on, 330
Amours, F. J., 118, 115, 121, 126
Amphitryon, in Confessio Amantis, 148:
Ancren Riwle, the, 300

André of Toulouse, Bernard Andreas or,
Les Douze Triomphes de Henry VII,
223, 471

Andrea, Joannes, 364

Andreae, Antonius, Commentary on Ari-
stotle's Metaphysics, 318

Andrew of Wyntoun (1350?-1420?), 100,
103, 104, 117, 121, 122, 129; see also
Orygynale Cronykil, 91, 115, 239, 280
Andrew Lammie, 412

Andrewe, Lawrence (f. 1510-1687),
printer, 330

Andromeda, 79

Anelida. See under Chaucer

33

Angels, The treatise of the Song of,
327

Anger, in Confessio Amantis, 147
Anglo-Norman works, 419 ff., 508, 507 ff.
Angus, Archibald, fifth earl of (1449?-
1514), 'Bell-the-Cat,' 259

nation of, in the Scottish uni-
versities, 371

Anima, in Piers the Plowman (also called
Will, Reason, Love, Conscience), 27
Lady (Life), in Piers the Plow-
man, 19, 21, 22, 28

Animalibus, De, 863

Anne of Bohemia, 62, 170

Anselm, St, 365

Ante Crucem Virgo Stabat, 883
Anthony & Wood (1682-1695), 224
Antichrist, Dunbar's, 256

in Piers the Plowman, 28

Antwerp, 819, 820, 829, 830
Apocalypse, 60

Apocrypha, the, 120, 280, 430
Apollo Delphicus, 78

Apollonius of Tyre, in Confessio Amantis,
149, 152

Appolyn of Thyre, King, 824, 325
Aquilegiensis, Laurence, Practica sive

Usus Dictaminis ('Complete Letter
Writer'), 363

Aquinas, St Thomas, 350, 363; Summa,

365

Armys, The Buke of the Law of, or Buke
of Bataillis, 284

Arngosk, The Lady of, 411
Arnold, Matthew, 107, 180

Richard (d. 1521), Chronicle, 320,

829
Arrivall, The History of the (1471), 302
Arrogance, in Mirour de l'Omme, 140
Art de bien vivre et de bien mourir, L', 329.
See also 324, 328

Artegall, in The Faerie Queene, 284
Arthur, king, 112, 115, 116, 118 ff., 181,
184, 228, 230, 234, 307, 337 ff., 428.
See also under Golagros and Gawane,
Morte Arthure, Awntyrs of Arthure,
etc.

Arthur, begynyng at Cassabelaun, The
Dethe of, 308

and King Cornwall, King, 414
of Little Britain, 322, 339

Arthure, Gret Gest of, 116

Arundel, Thomas, abp (1353-1414), 59,
62, 67, 68, 154, 848

Athanasius, 79, 86

Atkynson, William (d. 1509), translator of
Imitatio Christi, 321

Auberon, in Huon of Bordeaux, 839
Audelay, John, 496

Audley, James de (1316?-1869), 386
Augustine, St, 20, 52, 53, 182, 199, 230,
308, 324, 355, 365; Meditations of
888

Augustinians, 349, 367
Auld Maitland, 408

Aurelius, in The Franklin's Tale, 184
Aust, prebend of, 49
Austen, Jane, 192
Austin Friars, 287
Austria-Hungary, 810
Avalon, Isle of, 120

Avantance, in Mirour de l'Omme, 140
Avarice, in Confessio Amantis, 147, 149;
in The Passetyme of Pleasure, 226; in
Piers the Plowman, 23, 28
Ave Maria, 359
Averroes, 363

Avignon, 53, 57

Babilon, Saudan of, in Fortescue's
Monarchia, 298
Babylon, 13, 71

paynim porter of, in Huon of Bor-
deaux, 339

Babylon, 403, 410 ff.
Bachelor, the False, in Confessio Amantis,

151

Bacon, Roger (c. 1214-94), 50, 350, 366;
De Gramatica, 363; De multiplica
tione specierum cum perspectiva ejusdem,
862

Baggily Hall, Cheshire, 40

Bale, John (1495-1663), 36, 39, 40, 152, 225
Ball, John (d. 1381), 63
Ballads, 895 f.

Ballengeich, the Gudeman of (=James V

of Scotland), 244, 270

Balliol, or Baliol, John de (1249-1815),
104

Balormy, John, in Lives of the Saints,
128

Banff, 100

Bannatyne, George (1545-1608?), 282.
See also 478

Bannockburn, battle of, 101, 102, 109
Banquo, 104

Baradoun, Henry (f. 1488), 502
Barbour, John (c. 1820-1395), Bruce, etc.,
88, 91, 100 ff., 114, 117, 127, 129, 180,
239, 280; date of his death, 449; works
attributed to B.: The Brut, 108; Lives
or Legends of the Saints, 103, 127, 128,
239; Stewartis Oryginalle, The, 103;
Troy, Siege of, 104

Barclay, Alexander (1475?-1552), 210;
trans. of Ship of Fools, 821; trans. of
Gringore's Chasteau de labour, 329
Bardus, in Confessio Amantis, 151
Baret, John, 198

Barking, 157

Barlaam and Josaphat, 150

Barleycorn, John (alias Allan-a-Maut'),
279

Barnwell Priory, 348, 347, 852, 500
Baron o' Brackley, The, 412
Bartholomaeus Anglicus (A. 1230-1250),
De Proprietatibus Rerum, 71, 72, 74,
76, 80, 86, 311, 823

Bartholus, 863

Barton, Sir Andrew, 408, 414
Baruch, 61

Baston, Robert (A. 1800), 496
Basyn, The Tale of the, 501

Bateman, William, bp of Norwich (1298?
-1855), 354

Bear, the, in Mum, Sothsegger, 86
Beaton, James (d. 1539), and Beaton,

David (1494-1646), archbishops of St
Andrews, 369

Beauchamp, Richard de, earl of Warwick
(1382-1489), 76, 335
Beaufort, Henry, 852, 355

Joan, 244

Beauty, in The Goldyn Targe, 258

Becket, St Thomas à, 84, 87, 342; in
Caxton's Golden Legend, 884
Bede, in The Example of Virtue, 227
Bedford, 886

duke of, John of Lancaster
(1389-1485), 886
Bedfordshire, 206

Bedivere, Sir, in Morte Arthure, 119
Beghard communities, 47

Bekynton, or Beckington, T. (1390?-
1465), 808

Belgium, 310

Bellenden, John (fl. 1538–1587), Livy and

Scottish History, 285

Beltayne, At, 244

Benedict XII, 849

XIII, 868

Benedictines, 2, 245, 349, 850, 354, 362

Benoit de Sainte More, 150; Roman de
Troie, 172

Benoit, St Brendan, 419
Benoit, historiographer, 507
Beowulf, 1, 898
Berdok, King, 276

Bergers, Calendrier des, 828
Berghen. See Adraien van

Berkeley, George, first earl of (1628-
1698), 77

Thomas, Lord, 74, 76, 77
Gloucestershire, 74, 77
Bernabo Visconti, of Milan, 158
Bernard, 8t, 230, 865; Tractat, 888;
Sayings of, 425

Berners, Lord, John Bourchier (1467-
1583), 882, 887 ff.; Castle of Love,
The, 322; Froissart's Chronicle, 322,
840; The Golden Book of Marcus
Aurelius, 840; History of Arthur of
Little Britain, The, 822, 839; Huon of
Bordeaux, 822, 339, 340

Juliana (d. 1888?), The Book of St
Albans, 818, 823, 420

Bernysdale, 809

Berwick, siege of, 101

Beryn, The Tale of, or The Second Mer-
chant's Tale, 162, 164, 215, 216, 469
Bethlehem, 18

Betokis bour, in Gyre Carling, 275, 277
Beverley. See Alfred of

Beves of Hamtoun, Sir, 320, 823
Bewick and Graham, 411

Bible, the, 150, 151, 230, 289, 291, 314,
366, 867. See also under Testament

the Bassandyne, 94, 285; the
Genevan version, 94; Wyclifite ver.
sions, 49, 800, 480, 481 (see also
throughout the chapter on Wyclif and
Rolle); Trevisa and the Bible, 77
Bibles, prices of, 308

Billingsgate, in Trevisa, 78

Birnam wood, in Wyntoun's Cronykil,

132

Bishop's wood, in Pecock, 291

Black Death, the, 41, 42, 45, 70, 71,
854

Friars, 849. See also under
Dominicans

Prince, 22

Blair, John (A. 1300), 110
Blanchardyn. See Caxton
Blanche of Lancaster, 170
Blaneford, Henry (f. 1800), 496
Blasour, in Gyre Carling, 275
Blerblowan, in Colkelbie's sow, 127
Blou northerne wynd, 893

'Blyth, John,' in Bannatyne MS, 279
Boccaccio, 184, 145, 168, 174, 176, 182,
184, 199, 204, 262, 264, 321, 325;
Decameron, 177; Il Filostrato, 172;
Teseide, 180

Boece, Hector (14657-1586), 114, 251,
370, 871; History, 104

Boethius, 241, 247, 355, 360, 863; Arith-
metica, 362

Bohemia, 69, 292, 298