Here begynneth the First Volum of Sir J. Froissart: of the chronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flãunders: and other Places Adioynynge. Translated by J. Bouchier, Knight, Lord Berners, 1523-25.
Froissart's 'Chronicles' deals with the period between 1326-1400. It is mainly occupied with the affairs of France, England, Scotland and Flanders, and he also supplies much information in regard to Germany, Italy and Spain. The work has greatly influenced our literature.
FRONTINUS, SEXTUS JULIUS. b. 40, d. 106. Roman Statesman and tactician.
THE STRATEGEMS, SLEYGHTES, AND POLICIES OF WARRE. Tr. Rycharde Morysine, 1539.
FULK FITZ WARINE: The History of Fulk Fitz Warine, an outlawed baron in the reign of King John. (c. 1320.) Tr. by Thomas Wright, 1855.
'The French paraphrase probably, of an Anglo-Norman chanson de geste, composed late in the 13th century, traces of poetic diction being legible in the prose. As interesting, and almost as natural, as a modern novel; the historical characters forcibly sketched in'.
GAMELYN, Tale of. Ed. W. W. Skeat, 1893.
GARCILASCO DE LA VEGA. b. 1503, d. 1536. Spanish poet.
WORKS OF G. DE LA V., SURNAMED THE PRINCE OF CASTILIAN POETS. Tr. with a critical and historical Essay on Spanish Poetry and a life of the Author by J. H. Wiffen, 1823.