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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London,: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.]
1812.
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Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603.
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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 28, 2025.

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The. C.xliiii. Chapiter.

¶ Of the byrthe of Edwarde his eldest sonne and heyre, was in the. xxix. yere of his father, and in the yere of Chryste a thousande. CC. xxxix. Howe Symonde Mountforte earle of Leycester was create.

HIs eldest sonne and heyre, yt Edward hyght, At Westmynster, of Chrystes incarnacyon, The yere a thousand. CC. ix. and. xxx. ryght, Whome the legate Otho, by informacyon, [Baptyzed in funt saynt Edmondes, confirmacyō] To hym then made, as the churche deuysed, In his baptime holy, then autoryzed.
¶ Symond ye sōne of earle Symond Moūtfort, Came oute of Fraunce for ferdnesse of ye quene, To kyng Henry, whome he gaue great comforte; He gaue hym then his man [name. edit. alt.] for ay to bene Of Leycester the earldome fayre and clene, With the stewarde of Englande in herytage, Whiche is an offyce of greate priuelage.
¶ And wed his doughter, dame Elyanore, To Willyam Marshall, earle of Penbroke, After whose deathe she auowed chast[yte for] euermore;

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But he her maryed and her betoke, [For all her vowe, as sayeth the booke, To earle Symond Mountfort to be his wyfe, Notwithstandyng yt she vowed chastyte her lyfe.] [
To erle Symonde, of Britayne, wedded newe, The yere of Criste a thousande wase accounted, Two hundreth moo fourty and oone amounted.
]
¶ [Tho dyed Lewelyn the prynce of Wales then, Betwene his sonnes Gryffyth and Dauid grewe Greate discencyon and stryfe ay, when and when; And dame Beatryce the kynges doughter trewe, To earle Symonde, of Britayne, wedded newe, The yere of Chryste a thousand was accompted, Two hundreth moo fourty and one amounted.]
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