[424] Foxe's Actes and Monuments, folio, Lond. 1576, p. 679.
[425] Holingshed Chronicle, fol. 1587, vol. ii. p. 627.
[426] See Stowe, p. 367.
[427] Leland Collect. vol. i. p. 494.
[428] MS. Harleian, No. 2251, fol. 7 b.
[429] Capgrave's Commentary on Genesis, in Oriel College, Cod. MSS. 32, is dedicated to him. Aretine's Trans. Aristotle's Politics, MS. Bodl. D. i. 8-10. Pet. de Monte de Virt. de Vit. MS. Norvic. More, 257. Bibl. publi Cantab. Many others are given in Warton's Hist. of Poetry, 4to. vol. ii. pp. 48-50.
[430] Tragedies of Ihon Bochas. Imp. at London, by John Wayland, fol. 38 b.
[431] MS. Harleian, No. 2251, fol. 6. Lydgate received one hundred shillings for translating the Life of St. Alban into English verse for Whethamstede.
[432] See Wood's Hist. and Antiq. of Oxford, vol. ii. p. 914.
[433] MSS. Bodl. N. E. vii. ii. Warton, vol. ii. p. 45. I find in the Arundel Register in the British Museum (MSS. Arund. clxiii. c.) that a fine copy of Valerius, in two volumes, with a gloss, was transcribed in the time of Whethamstede at St. Albans, at the cost of £6 13 4, probably the identical copy.