| PREFACE | [vii] | |
| TEXT | [1] | |
| TRANSLATION | [23] | |
| NOTES | [45] | |
| SPECIAL NOTES | ||
| I. A PRAYER TO HENRY VI IN ENGLISH VERSE | [50] | |
| II. ON THE MANUSCRIPT MIRACLES OF HENRY VI. | [51] | |
| III. ON JOHN BLACMAN'S BOOKS | [55] | |
PREFACE
The tract on the Personality of King Henry VI (as I may perhaps be allowed to call it), which is here reprinted, has hitherto been almost inaccessible to ordinary students. It is not known to exist at all in manuscript. We depend ultimately for our knowledge of it upon a printed edition issued by Robert Coplande of London, of which the date is said to be 1510. Of this there may be two copies in existence. This text was reprinted by Thomas Hearne in 1732, in his edition of the Chronicles of Thomas Otterbourne and John Whethamstede, of which 150 copies were issued.
I have here reprinted Hearne's text, and have collated it with Coplande's. This I was enabled to do through the great kindness of the authorities of St Cuthbert's College at Ushaw, who most generously lent me a copy of the tract preserved in their Library. This copy I will endeavour to describe.
It is in a modern binding lettered: Hylton's Lives of British Saints. Blackman's Life of Henry VI. The pressmark is
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The size is 185 × 130 mm. There are 32 lines to a full page.