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By John Alexander
Herbert, Harry Leigh
Douglas Ward

Published 1883
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Grenoble - Page 577
The last chapter, as usual, is that on the miracle at Grenoble; but the distich that usually follows it is here transferred to the end of the ...
more pages: 555

Huntingdon - Page 215
itself nothing but a Nennius; that this work was written on the continent; and that Geoffrey imagined it to be unknown to Malmesbury and Huntingdon. ...
more pages: 211

Grimsby - Page 441
But, upon the whole, we are inclined to believe tbat the childhood incident was imported from the north into Grimsby in the llth or 12th century, ...
more pages: 426

Lyon - Page 665
Girard refused to surrender the duchy of Lyon to Charles le Chauve, and the Countess Bertha prepared to defend Vienne; but tho citizens were in favour ...
more pages: 906

Warwick - Page 478
Warwick. We need hardly add, that if she WHS really one of the acknowledged mistresses of Henry i., the probability of her ...
more pages: 474

Cologne - Page 66
The first printed edition is usually ascribed to Caxton, and is supposed to have been printed abroad (in the Low Countries or Cologne) by him about ...
more pages: 671

Naples - Page 718
At the beginning of the work Boccaccio states that he first saw Fiammetta in the church of San Lorenzo (attached to a Franciscan monastery) in Naples, ...
more pages: 622

Jerusalem - Page 627
Charlemagne receives a warning from the king of Jerusalem that Jonas is collecting an immense army against him. Charlemagne, in his turn, ...
more pages: 626

Gloucester - Page 504
of Windsor or Westminster, during the greater pait of the outlawry, and that he was never at that time in Gloucester, as he is here represented. ...
more pages: 214

Canterbury - Page 87
He joins the pilgrims at Canterbury, and tells his tale on the way back to Southwark. The first part brings the story of Thebes down to the death of ...

Oxford - Page 204
He visited Oxford, and knew Archdeacon Walter, at least as early as 1129; when they were joint witnesses of the Oseney Charter; and he.
more pages: 431

Rome - Page 762
mother persuades him that one of the children must be a bastard, and they and their mother are turned out into the forest, 100 miles from Rome. ...
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Paris - Page 61
The description of Helen is here inserted before her meeting with Paris, whereas Guido has first described their meeting in the temple of Venus,.

Rouen - Page 347
The first volume of the first edition was printed at Rouen by Jehan le Bourgois, and the second volume at Paris by Jehan Dupre, both in 1488. ...

Apulia - Page 750
The hero's elder brother, the king of Apulia, is more than once called at the beginning of the present copy " Daumus "; but his name is generally ...

Edinburgh - Page 531
in the Scots Magazine for August, 1810, in which it is said that he had been the friend of all men of literature and art in Edinburgh for 50 years. ...

Windsor - Page 504
which shows that he was in Normandy, instead of Windsor or Westminster, during the greater pait of the outlawry, and that he was never at that time in ...

Dublin - Page 434
He resigned Dublin to his son Sitric, and went on a pilgrimage to lona, where he died in 981. The mother of Sitric was not Constantino's daughter, ...

York - Page 226
From the siege of York by Aurelius to the transportation of Stonehenge from Ireland by Merlin. With the chapters numbered in the later hand as " Cap. ...

Florence - Page 931
The history of the fall of her son the Duke of Athens, as governor of Florence, is related at the end of Boccaccio's work De casibus virorum ...

Amsterdam - Page 196
The Dutch version, published at Amsterdam in 1552, of which the present saga is a translation, differs entirely from the French in its account of the ...

Milan - Page 69
The early editions, of which three were published at Venice, Bologna, and Milan, at the close of the 15th cent., and that in the Opere Volgari of ...

London - Page 472
attacked London in company with Sweyn of Denmark, and afterwards harried the southern counties both by land and sea, ...

Tunis - Page 921
It breaks off (when speaking of the Emperor Frederick II., and his sending for the book from Tunis) with the words: " Die keiser sende hem enen clerc ...

Salisbury - Page 949
This extract begins in the middle of the tournament at Salisbury, when Richard is just attacking Sir Fouke Doly. ...

Lucca - Page 66
the writer describes himself as " Johannes Stephani de Colognora," a citizen of Lucca, and as having written the Histories on the 15th November, 1403. ...

Evesham - Page 475
They are apparently all drawn from the archives of Evesham, which he had specially studied, no doubt, when writing his history (now lost) of the ...

Augsburg - Page 60
Moreover, the printed edition, with which the present MS. pretty closely agrees (namely, that of Augsburg, 1488), continues the work to the end, ...

Barcelona - Page 551
He goes on to say that it was often seen at Compostella and copied by subsequent pilgrims, amongst others by a monk of Ripol (near Barcelona) in 1173, ...

Norwich - Page 110
Sty ward, probably the Augustine Steward, who was mayor of Norwich in 1534. See Additional 15644. ALEXANDER THE GREAT : the ordinary abridgment of ...

Copenhagen - Page 167
APOLLONIUS OF TYRE : translated from a Danish printed book, published at Copenhagen in 1660. With a preface. Icelandic. ...

Andover - Page 472
conducted him to Andover; and there, adds Florence of Worcester, he received confirmation. It is curious to observe how the little ...

Stuttgart - Page 706
113, seems to have been overlooked till Edmund Stengel described it in Li Romans de Durmart le Galois, published by the Literary Society in Stuttgart ...

Deventer - Page 92
1 b) are two lines of presentation, dated 1630, from the poet Hendrik Heydendal to Jacob Revius, the preacher at Deventer (afterwards, in 1641, ...

Bologna - Page 842
BERTRAM OF BOUSSILLON : a tale how Count Bertram was forced to marry a doctor's daughter of Bologna. In 7 chapters. Written by the same scribe as the ...

Leipzig - Page 400
GF Benecke published an edition of the Wigalois (12mo, Berlin), 1819, and in 1847 Franz Pfeiffer brought out a second edition, 8vo, Leipzig. ...

Poitiers - Page 173
and made some efforts, in concert with her son, Gauthier VI., Comte de Brienne (who was afterwards Constable of France, and was killed at Poitiers), ...

Portsmouth - Page 480
We here find why Guy went round to the north gate, though he had landed at Portsmouth: he had passed the night in a hospital for the poor, ...

Amiens - Page 95
101) to have died a canon of Tournay, or else of Amiens. There is an edition of the poem in.

Glasgow - Page 531
Herd's Collection was reprinted botli at Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1869. Many of the articles in the present volume were left unpublished ...

Lambeth - Page 205
Geoffrey was ordained priest by Archbishop Theobald, at Lambeth, on the 16th February, 1152 ; and on the 24th of the same month was consecrated bishop ...

Toulouse - Page 567
7 with a notice of the route through Toulouse, in three lines. He then gives an account of the populations on the route from Tours. ...

Southampton - Page 472
and took up his winter quarters at Southampton. It is not actually stated that he besieged Winchester; but it is stated that ...

Marseilles - Page 945
Richard now goes to Marseilles, and embarks for Sicily. The course of the crusade is followed more correctly than that of the preceding events; ...

Bonn - Page 22
See that of Andreas Dederich, Bonn, 1835, in which the lists are printed among the notes, at p, 91. Claudius B. vii. ff. 214-218 b. ...

Venice - Page 60
Voyage from Venice to Alexandria, in 1434. f. 53 b, col. 2. 3. Das puch genant Prouinciale; lists of bishoprics in both Western and Eastern churches, ...

Sevenoaks - Page 324
Note of Sir Humphrey Stafford's death near Sevenoaks, 18th June 1450; followed by the Bill of Requests presented by the Commons of Kent under Jack ...

Cambridge - Page 444
133 of the Parker Collection of MSS. in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The second half of it, relating to the years 1066-1362, was edited by ...

Bury - Page 80
Here endeth the book of the Sege of Troye translated by John Lydgate the monk of Bury out of Latyn into Englissh at the instaunce of the most ...

Livorno - Page 197
For a history of the whole subject, see the second part of the work by Domenico Comparetti, called Virgilio nd Media Evo, two vols., Livorno, 1872. ...

Taxila - Page 135
It appears that from Taxila, a city of the Punjaub between the Hydaspes and the Indus, Alexander sent Onesicritus to visit a community of Brahmins. ...

Brussels - Page 221
by Josse Bade, of Asch, near Brussels, under the title of Britanniae utriusque regum, et principum origo et gesta, insignia ab Galfrido monemutensi ...

Athens - Page 173
Gauthier VI., Comte de Brienne (who was afterwards Constable of France, and was killed at Poitiers), to recover the duchy of Athens. ...

Pembroke - Page 499
Earl of Mont-gomery, KG, and it must have been printed before 1630 at least, for in that year Philip succeeded to the earldom of Pembroke. ...

Turin - Page 579
before he settled at Meaux, a story which the llth century Chronicle of Novalese,* near Turin, relates of Walter of Aquitaine in the 7th chapter of ...

Caen - Page 260
that he had long resided at Caen, and written many " romanz " there (lines 10452, 10453); and that he had been made canon of Bayeux by Henry II. ...

Wrexham - Page 259
Copied by lolo Morganwg [Edward Williams] from the Book of Basingwerk, now the property of TT Griffith, Esq., of Wrexham. ...

Neapoli - Page 579
Cum Karolns liberate terra sancta vellet aliquid de reliquiis domini asportare de Neapoli," f. 39 b. This is related in Helinand's Chronicle under the ...

Dover - Page 941
A Romance, chiefly relating to the recovery of Harold after the battle of Hastings, and his life as a hermit, first near Dover, afterwards at Ches- ...

Lille - Page 99
By Gaultier cle Lille, or de CLatillon. I 10 books, containing 5413 hexameters, each book preceded by ...

Leon - Page 569
Facundus (San Fangon in Leon), near which the spears broke out into leaf, as told in Turpin's chronicle, chap. 8. In Histoire litteraire, tome xxi. ...

Chimay - Page 251
This was probably Philippe de Croy, who married the elder daughter and heiress of Charles, Prince do Chimay, was created Due d'Arschot in 1516, ...

Berlin - Page 603
In the Abhandlungen der koniglichen Akademie der Wissen- schaften zu Berlin, for the year 1835, in Part iii. bearing the separate title of ...

Lausanne - Page 617
It was turned into prose, with a few additions at the beginning and end, at the request of Henri Bolomier, a canon of Lausanne, and printed as ...

Albany - Page 690
and then comes what may be considered the 1st chapter, which relates the adventures of King " Elynas " of Albany and his wife " Pressyne " the Fairy, ...

Tarragona - Page 565
genuine epistle of Calixtus, in which Oldegario, archbishop of Tarragona, is named as his deputy for receiving the crusaders (first published from the ...

Coimbra - Page 789
Jorge de Montemayor was born at the little town of Monte- mayor, near Coimbra, probably before 1520. He was a soldier; but it is said that, ...

Besancon - Page 53
The signature of the writer is erased, with the exception of the designation of his native place, which is written " besantinus " [of Besancon]. ...

Taranto - Page 190
But the allusions are confused: thus the Saracens (" Agareni") are mentioned as taking Taranto and Bari about the reign of Conrad II., ...

Sutton - Page 309
Line., in the 14th cent., and subsequently to John Warner, chaplain of Sutton, co. Line. MERLIN'S PROPHECY OF THE six KINGS THAT ABE TO FOLLOW KING ...

Bari - Page 190
But the allusions are confused: thus the Saracens (" Agareni") are mentioned as taking Taranto and Bari about the reign of Conrad II., ...

Scarborough - Page 29
nine Goliardic poems; many other Latin poems, historical and satirical, some of them attributed to Robert Baston (prior of Scarborough about 1310); ...

Holar - Page 305
From these sagas it appears that Gunnlaug wrote his Latin life of King Olaf before 1200, and his Latin life of Bishop John (of Holar) soon after 1200. ...

Cairo - Page 127
together with the garden and the mills on " li flcuue du frate" (the rubricist mistaking Babylon near Cairo for the great Babylon on the Euphrates). ...

Messina - Page 8
The latter is dated 1493, and was written at Messina in Sicily l>y Lwn Chalciopoulos. ILIACA. By Johannes Tzetzes; in 1669 hexameters. ...

Cleveland - Page 458
It is close to Cleveland, and lies on the route from North Allcrtou to Yarm upon the Tees; and in 1'285 it was called Sibill: see Kirkby's Inquest, ...

Bristol - Page 529
How "Maudlin, the merchant's daughter of Bristow towne," leaves Bristol, disguised as a ship-boy, and joins her lover at Padua, where she saves him ...

Colchester - Page 424
Adelbrit (Gaimar adds) had conquered all the lands between Colchester and Holland in Lincolnshire; and he owned four " riches contezT> in Denmark. ...

Exeter - Page 414
How Eliduc was exiled from Brittany, and left his wife Guilde- luec there, whilst he crossed the sea and took service with a king at Exeter; ...

Beziers - Page 274
60*-84) is a pastoral on the laws of excommunication, addressed to the clergy of Beziers by their diocesan, Cardinal Bcrenger Predoli (made a cardinal ...

Padua - Page 529
How "Maudlin, the merchant's daughter of Bristow towne," leaves Bristol, disguised as a ship-boy, and joins her lover at Padua, where she saves him ...

Hasselt - Page 615
The last of the four works known to be by Adenet was edited by Andre van Hasselt, for the Academie royale de Belgique, under title of Li Bounians de ...

Salerno - Page 843
and how, after a pilgrimage to Rome and a visit to the medical school of Salerno, he is cured by Cecilia, daughter of King William of Sicily. ...

Ferrara - Page 720
t See the second leaf (not numbered) of the edition printed at Ferrara in 1475. Andalone's treatise has there indeed been " emendatus" by the ...

Nimes - Page 641
3), who is here suggesting that knights should be hidden in the barrels, in order to capture Nimes, and who in the printed text is named " Garniers. ...

Erfurt - Page 141
in two later hands, from the Letzte Testament of Basilius Valentinus, an Alsatian by birth, and a monk of Erfurt, of the 15th cent. ...

Hanau - Page 556
Reuber's collection was reprinted at Hanau in 1619, and again (with additions by GC Joannis) at Frankfort in 1726. ...

Zurich - Page 2
In these and other of the earlier editions, the present work is entitled 'Hpw'i/cd ; but in the editions of CL Kayser, at Zurich, 1844, and at Leipzig ...

Angers - Page 740
Map and his friends crossed the Channel, and joined Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, at Angers; but here they heard of King Richard's wound (26 March), ...

Saint-Denis - Page 611
Adenet boasts of having paid several visits to Saint-Denis, in search of historical authorities, but there is little evidence that he ever stayed in ...
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Orlando - Page 603
After the defeat of the Pagans, dissensions arise between Charlemagne and Girardo; and Orlando kills Chiaro in single combat (f. ...
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Malmesbury - Page 215
itself nothing but a Nennius; that this work was written on the continent; and that Geoffrey imagined it to be unknown to Malmesbury and Huntingdon. ...

Hispania - Page 547
Compostella, " quamvis tune temporis parva," stands last of the cities of Galicia, followed by a long list of the cities " in Hispania. ...

Christchurch - Page 339
But Wace lays the scene near the Hampshire town Christchurch, and calls the river the Avon; and though this was probably a mistake, it must be allowed ...

St. Augustine - Page 116
In each of these editions the 27 hexameter verses are printed, but without any reference to St. Augustine. 5. A summary of the history of Alexander, ...

Gawan - Page 932
by Chretien de Troyes (ie down to line 10601 of Potvin's edition of the poem,*) are substantially the same as those of Wolfram's Parzival and Gawan. ...

Wellington - Page 737
and hence we may fairly conclude that the first witness was Walter Map of Wormsley, which is only five or six miles to the west of Wellington. ...

St. Louis - Page 159
and ending with the death of the eldest son of St. Louis (in 1260), and with a fable relating to Ysengrin the wolf and Eenart the fox, which is here ...

Mahaut - Page 813
A rich widow has arranged a match between her son Rohin and Mahaut, the daughter of a poor vavasseur; and she entrusts Kohin on his wedding-day to the ...

Austin - Page 268
Albin and Austin, is more difficult to identify." Albinus, abbat of St. Austin's at Canterbury (died 732), though never canonised, seems to be the ...