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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"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 6, 2025.
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The. CC.viii. Chapiter.
¶ Howe syr Robert Vmfreuile brent Pebles on there market daye, and made his men to mete their clothe with speres & bowes, and after the Scottes called hym Robyne Mendmarket; and his neuewe brente Ied-worth and Teuidale sone after.
AT Pebles long afore that tyme. iiii. yere,He brent the toune vpon their market daye,And met theyr cloth wt speres & bowes sere [there.] ,
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By his biddyng without any naye; [Fol. CC.v.] Wherfore the Scottes, from thence forthward ay,Called hym Robyn Mendmarket in certayn, [Robyn Mēdmarket.]For his measures were so large and playn.
¶ His neuewe Gilbert and he the. xi. yereOf kyng Henry, vpon the water of Calme [Calne.] than,And also [als.] on Roule and Iedworth forest clere,Forrayed full sore with many a manly man,His banner first there was displayed then [whan.] ,[When] he was clerely but. xiiii [eightene.] . yere no more,When his vncle [had battled hym so sore.] [anoyseld hade hym thore.]
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