INDEX.

Abbeys and Priories of England, 66 et seq.

Aldhelm, the Saxon scholar and poet, 10, 64.

Alfred, King, 17 et seq.

Aneurin, a Welsh bard, the reputed author of Gododin, 7.

“Arcadia” of Philip Sidney, 237.

Archery in England, 199.

Arnold, Matthew, on Celtic literature, 8.

Arthur, King, the legends of, 39 et seq.;

Geoffrey’s version of, 42;

Map’s version, 42;

Layamon’s version, 43.

Ascham, Roger, 197;

his “Toxophilus,” 199;

his “Schoolmaster,” 199;

teacher of Queen Elizabeth, 201.

Bacon, Francis, 242;

his character, 250 et seq.;

his essays, 257;

his Novum Organum and De Augmentis, 258;

his death, 259.

Bacon, Roger, 77 et seq.

Balladry, English, 158.

Barnes, Dame Juliana, 153.

Battle Abbey, 35.

Beda, 15, 64.

Beowulf, 41.

“Betrothed,” Scott’s novel, 48.

Berners, Lord, his translation of Froissart, 129.

Bible, Wyclif’s translation of, 90;

Tyndale’s translation, 185;

reading of, by the common people forbidden in reign of Henry VIII., 191.

Black Prince, 93, 104, 106.

Boccaccio, 83.

Bœthius’ “Consolation of Philosophy,” translated by King Alfred, 19.

“Boke of the Duchesse,” Chaucer’s poem, 107.

Books at the end of the thirteenth century, 62;

decoration of, 65.

“Brut” of Layamon, 43.

Burleigh, Lord, 212, 242.

Cædmon, 13 et seq.;

possible influence of his paraphrase on Milton, 15.

Camden, William, 176, 303.

Camelot, 39, 40.

Canute’s verse about the singing of the monks of Ely, 22.

Canterbury School, 10.

“Canterbury Tales,” Chaucer’s, 114.

Caxton, 45, 149;

books from his press, 151.

Celtic literature, early, 7 et seq.

Chapman, George, and his Homer, 266.

Chaucer, 89, 97 et seq.;

his early life in London, 98;

a scholar, 100;

his connection with the royal household, 103;

his translation of the Roman de la Rose, 104;

his “Boke of the Duchesse,” 107;

his “Parliament of Foules,” 107;

his “Troilus and Cresseide,” 108;

his journeys on the Continent, 108;

his portrait, 112;

his “Canterbury Tales,” 114;

characters of the Canterbury pilgrims, 114 et seq.;

localities of the pilgrimage, 117;

his literary thefts, 119;

example of his art, 120 et seq.

Chevy Chase, ballad of, 159.

“Comus,” Milton’s, its relation to Peele’s “An Old Wives Tale,” 285.

Confessio Amantis of Gower, 128.

Coryat, Thomas, 304.

Cranmer, 182, 185.

“Crayon, Geoffrey,” 38.

Damoiselle, life of a, in the thirteenth century, 72.

Danish invasions of England, 17.

Dante, 83.

Dekker, Thomas, 287.

Drake, Sir Francis, 242.

Drayton, Michael, 291;

his “Poly-olbion,” 292;

his “Nymphidia,” 293.

Edward I., II., and III., 82 et seq.

Edward VI., 182, 197.

Elizabeth, Queen, Roger Ascham’s encomium of her studiousness, 201;

comes to the throne, 204;

her religion, 206;

Froude’s unfavorable portrait of, 207;

Soranzo’s description of, 208;

her greatness, 209;

her literary attempts, 311;

her love of pageants, 312;

her progresses, 313;

at Kenilworth, 314;

her death, 321.

Elizabethan authors, 214.

Emerson, his enjoyment of Taliesin, 8.

Erasmus, 177.

“Euphues,” by Lyly, 245.

Falstaff, Jack, 133.

Foxe, John, 187.

Froissart, Lord Berners’ translation of, 129.

Froude, Mr., his history characterized, 207.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, 37 et seq.

Green’s “History of the English People,” 5, 6;

“Making of England,” 10, 17;

cited, 64.

Greene, Robert, 277;

his relations with Shakespeare, 280.

Godiva, Lady, tradition of, 23.

Gower, John, 127.

“Grave, the,” an Anglo-Saxon poem, 21.

Hakluyt, Richard, 304.

Hampton Court, 171.

Harold the Saxon, 29 et seq.

“Harold,” Tennyson’s play, 29.

Henry II., 48.

Henry III., 56, 65.

Henry IV., 127, 132, 145.

Henry V., 141.

Henry VI. and VII., 144.

Henry VIII., 167;

character of, 172.

Hobbes, Thomas, 261;

his translation of Thucydides, 265.

Holinshed, Raphael, 211.

Hooker, Richard, and the “Ecclesiastical Polity,” 215, 242.

“Ivanhoe,” 50.

James I. of Scotland, 137.

Joan of Arc, 146.

John, King, 53.

John of Gaunt, 92;

a friend of Wyclif, 92;

of Chaucer, 110, 145.

Jonson, Ben, 282, 295.

Katharine of Aragon, 171.

“Kenilworth,” 68;

its picture of Queen Elizabeth’s visit, 314.

“King’s Quair, the,” 137.

Knox, John, 187.

Langlande, William, 84.

Lanier, Sidney, his “Mabinogion,” 8;

his “King Arthur,” 45.

Latimer, Hugh, 186.

Layamon, 43.

Leicester, Earl of, and Queen Elizabeth, 315.

Libraries at the end of the thirteenth century, 63.

Lilly, William, the head-master of St. Paul’s, 173.

Lindisfarne Abbey, 12.

Lodge, Thomas, 275.

London, 6;

in Chaucer’s time, 98.

“London Lickpenny” of Lydgate, 136.

Longfellow’s translation of “The Grave,” 21.

Lord’s Prayer, the, in Tyndale’s version, 185.

Lydgate, John, 135.

Lyly, John, 245.

Lytton, Lord, his “Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings,” 29.

“Mabinogion,” the, 8.

Macbeth, the murder of, 23.

“Madoc,” Southey’s poem, 49.

Mallory, Sir Thomas, 45.

Mandeville, Sir John, 59;

doubts respecting his travels, and personality, 60.

Map, Walter, 42.

Marco Polo, 59.

Marini Sanuto on the accession of Henry VIII., 169.

Marlowe, Christopher, 269.

“Marmion,” 3, 12.

Mary, Queen, 182, 184, 197.

Mary Queen of Scots, 241.

Matthew Paris, 46.

Mermaid Tavern, the, 274.

Milton, 15.

“Monastery, the,” 246.

More, Sir Thomas, 175, 185.

Nashe, Thomas, 276.

Norham Castle and “Marmion,” 3.

Novum Organum, the, of Bacon, 258.

Nut-Brown Maid, ballad of, 161.

Occleve, 135.

Orderic Vitalis, 46.

Oxford in the thirteenth century, 77.

“Parliament of Foules,” Chaucer’s poem, 107.

Paston Letters, the, 154.

Peele, George, 284;

his “Old Wives Tale,” 285.

Petrarch, 83.

“Piers Plowman, the Vision of,” 84.

Printing, the rise of, in England, 149.

Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, 312.

Purvey, his work on Bible of Wyclif, 96.

Puttenham’s “Arte of English Poesie,” 310.

Raleigh, 242.

Religious houses, spoliation of, 205.

Richard Cœur de Lion, 50.

Richard II., 126, 130.

Richard III., 148.

Rienzi, 83, 90.

Robert of Gloucester, 57.

Robin Hood’s bay, 13.

Robin Hood, 69.

Robin Hood ballads, 159.

Roger de Hoveden, 46.

“Roman de la Rose,” 104.

Roman remains in England, 6.

“Rosalynde,” Lodge’s novel, 275.

Sackville, Thomas, 210, 242.

“Saxon Chronicle, the,” 17, 27, 37.

St. Albans, 66.

St. Augustine in England, 10, 63.

St. Columba, monastery of, 11.

“Schoolmaster, the,” by Ascham, 200.

“Scottish Chiefs, the,” 81.

Shakespeare, his “Henry IV.,” 133;

“Henry V.,” 141;

“Henry VI.,” 146;

“Richard III.,” 148, 243;

with the wits at the Mermaid Tavern, 281.

Sidney, Philip, 230;

his “Arcadia,” 237;

his “Defence of Poesie,” 238.

Skelton, John, 139.

Sonnet, the, first used in English by Wyatt, 193.

Soranzo, Signor, his report of Queen Elizabeth, 208.

Spedding, James, his “Life of Bacon,” 251.

Spenser, Edmund, 217;

his “Shepherd’s Calendar,” 217;

“Faery Queen,” 221 et seq.;

“Epithalamium,” 228.

Sternhold and Hopkins’ versions of the Psalms, 189.

Stow, John, 304.

Stubbes, Philip, 308.

Surrey, Earl of, 194;

his poetry, and story of his Florentine tourney, 195.

Taillefer, the Norman minstrel, 26.

Taine’s treatment of Richard Cœur de Lion, 50.

Taliesin, 8.

“Talisman, the,” 51.

Tennyson’s “Harold,” 30;

“Idyls of the King,” 40;

“Queen Mary,” 183.

Thackeray’s treatment of Richard Cœur de Lion in “Rebecca and Rowena,” 51.

Thomas à Becket, 48.

Tolstoi, Count, 180.

Tudor, Sir Owen, and the Tudor succession, 144.

Tusser, Thomas, 211.

Tyndale, William, 185.

“Utopia,” by Sir Thomas More, 178.

Vox Clamantis of Gower, 127.

Wace, 42.

Wallace, William, 81.

“Westward, Ho,” Kingsley’s novel, 40.

Whitby Monastery, 12.

Whittingham, 189.

William the Norman, 25 et seq.

William of Malmsbury, 46.

William of Newburgh, 46.

Wolsey, Cardinal, 170, 173.

Wyclif, 89, 90 et seq.;

his translation of the Bible, 95.

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 193.

Wright, Leonard, 307.

York, 6.

York and Lancaster, the wars of, 145.