The. xiii. Chapiter.
¶ Howe he buylded the citee of Troynouaunt, that nowe is called London. [London.]
The chronicle of Iohn Hardyng. Containing an account of public transactions from the earliest period of English history to the beginning of the reign of King Edward the Fourth. Together with the continuation by Richard Grafton, to the thirty fourth year of King Henry the Eighth. The former part collated with two manuscripts of the author's own time; the last, with Grafton's duplicate edition. To which are added a biographical and literary preface, and an index, by Henry Ellis.
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- The chronicle of Iohn Hardyng. Containing an account of public transactions from the earliest period of English history to the beginning of the reign of King Edward the Fourth. Together with the continuation by Richard Grafton, to the thirty fourth year of King Henry the Eighth. The former part collated with two manuscripts of the author's own time; the last, with Grafton's duplicate edition. To which are added a biographical and literary preface, and an index, by Henry Ellis.
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- Hardyng, John, 1378-1465?
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- 1812.
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"The chronicle of Iohn Hardyng. Containing an account of public transactions from the earliest period of English history to the beginning of the reign of King Edward the Fourth. Together with the continuation by Richard Grafton, to the thirty fourth year of King Henry the Eighth. The former part collated with two manuscripts of the author's own time; the last, with Grafton's duplicate edition. To which are added a biographical and literary preface, and an index, by Henry Ellis." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CME00023. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.
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Page 41
SO was the name of this ilke Albyon
All sette on side in kalandes of achauange,
And putte awaye with greate confusion,
And Briteyn hight so furth by newe eschaunge, [Briteyne.]
After Brutus, that slewe these giauntes straūge,
And wanne this Isle, by his magnyficence,
In whiche he dwelled long tyme in excellence.
¶ The citee greate, of Troynouaunt so faire,
He buyleded then on Thamis [Themys side.] for [his] delite,
[Vnto the north,] for his dwellyng & for his moost repeier:
Whiche is to saie, in our lāguage perfect,
Newe Troye, in bookes as I canne nowe endicte;
And Nouell Troye, in Frenche incomperable,
[Of Breteyne, a] [Of all Britayn.] citee moost profytable.
¶ This Briteyne is in length eyght. C. myle, [Fol. xvi.]
Fro Monsechole [Mous hool.] , that is in Cornewayle, right [The lēgth and bredth of ye Isle of Bryteyne.]
Vnto the northend of Catenes, to compile:
And also [als.] in bredeth [brede.] frome Sainct Dauid yt hight
To Yarmoth, that in Norffolke is by sight,
Twoo hundred myle accoumpted well [hole.] and clene,
As autours saie, t his Isle dooeth whole contein.