[1288] Ramsay, ii. 203. No authority is given for the statement.

[1289] See Political Songs, passim . Cf. Stow, 385.

[1290] Harleian MS., 2251, ff. 279vo-282vo; Additional MS., 29, 729, ff. 157vo-161.

[1291] Ashmole MS., 59, ff. 57-59.

[1292] Harleian MS., 2251, ff. 7-8vo; Additional MS., 34, 360, ff. 65vo-67vo.

[1293] Caxton’s edition of the Falls of Princes (1494). Cf. MS. 23 of the Library of the Earl of Jersey at Osterley Park, Hist. MSS. Report, viii. Part i. p. 100.

[1294] Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. français, 12,421.

[1295] On this point see Hortis, 646.

[1296] Minor Poems of Lydgate, Percy Society Publications (London, 1840), ii. 49-51.

[1297] Bodley MS., 263, ff. 5, 6.