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].