Note 39 — Library of Lambeth Palace.
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The archives of Lambeth Palace contain a curious Manuscript of Caxton’s Chronicle, from Brute to the beginning of the reign of Henry VI. in folio, preceded by a portrait of that monarch, and bearing at the end the date of 1460, followed by these words: “An after that ther bred a raven at Charyng Crosse at Londen. And never was seen noon brede there before. And after that came a gret dethe of pestilence that lasted iij yer. And peple dyed myhtely in every place, man woman and chylde. On whose soulys God have mercy. Amen.”
The text of this Manuscript differs greatly from the Chronicle of England, printed by Caxton in 1480, and is much more diffuse, but it appears never to have been completed.