Aristotle's Politiques, or Discourse of Go-
vernment, translated by Aretine. ii.
267. Economicks into French, by
Laurence. ii. 278.

Aristotle's Secretum Secretorum. i. cxlv.
clii.

Aristotelem de Regina quæ equitavit. i.ccv.
Armes et de Chevallerie, Livres de Fais
d', by Christina of Pisa. ii. 316.
Arnalt and Lucinda, a fyne Tuscan hy-
storye. iii. 381, 382.

Arnoldes, Rt., Chronicle by. iii. 124.
Arraignement of Paris, by Geo. Peele.
iii. 337, 338.

Arresta Amorum, or the Decrees of Love,
a poem. ii. 218.

Art de dictier Ballades et Rondelles. ii.
222.

Art de Kalender, par Rauf. i. 69.
Art of English Poesie. See Puttenham.

iii. 28, 53, 93, 184, 230, 244, 274, 323,
336, 344, 401. Of French Poetry. i.
125, 126.

Art of Logic, by Wilson. iii. 248, 272.
Art of Rhetoric, by Wilson. iii. 272 to 281.
Art de Rhétorique, in French rhyme. iii.
284.

Art et Science de Rhétorique, métrifiée
par N. Vieillard. iii. 284.

Art of Versification, a Latin poem, by
Eberhardus Bethuniensis. ii. 363.
Arthur, popularity of his story anterior to
the first Crusade. i. 113.
Arthur, King. i. vi. viii. to xv. xviii, xlvi.
lvi. ii. 406, 415, 474.

Arthur, King, History of. iii. 114, 278.
Arthur, King, Romance of. i. cxcv. cci.

113, 121, 126 to 128, 136, 142, 146,
200, 201, 205. ii. 32, 33, 134, 185,
221, 224.

Arthur, King, rites of, restored by Roger

earl of Mortimer. i. 121.

Arthur, an Armorican knight, History of,
translated by Lord Berners. iii. 64.
Arthur of Little Brittayne, Romance of.
iii. 385.

Arthure, Prince, the Auncient Order, So-
cietie, &c. of, in verse. ii. 238. Creacion
of, by Skelton. ii. 489.

Arthure, Prince, by R. R. i. e. Richard
Robinson. iii. 316.

Arthuri Regis Acta. i. 149.

Arthuri Assertio, by Leland. ii. 238.
translated by Robinson. iii. 316.
Artois, Count d', Ballad on the Defeat of
the. i. 53.

Arundel, archbishop. ii. 226.
Arundel, Philip, earl of. iii. 340.

As You Like It, by Shakespeare. ii. 499.
Asamal (or Asiatic verses), Account of
the. i. xxiv.

Asbiorn Pruda, a real personage. i. xxv.
his Saga a fabrication of the 14th cen-
tury. ibid.
Ascham, Roger. ii. 525. iii. 10, 14, 19.

39, 249, 271, 272, 335, 356, 372 to
374, 396.

Ashby, George. iii. 80.

Ashmole, Elias. ii. 33. his Theatrum
Chemicum. ii. 231, 336 to 338.

Asinus Penitentiarius, ii. 394.
Askeldowne, Joly Chepert of, a poem, by
John Lawern. i. 71.

Askew, Dr. i. clxxxvii. ii. 135.
Asmodeus, King. i. clvii.

Assaillant, l', a French romance. ii. 320.
Assault of Cupide upon the Fort in
which the Lover's Heart lay wounded,
a poem by Lord Vaux. iii. 54. 57.
Assemblie of Foules, by Chaucer. ii. 152,
168, 399, 403.

Assemblie of Ladies, by Chaucer. ii. 218,
399.

Asser, bishop of St. David's. ii. 254.
Assertio Arthuri of Leland. ii. 238. trans-
lated by Robinson. iii. 316.

Asses, Feast of, mystery of the. ii. 29.
Astionax and Polixene. iii. 337.
Astle. iii. 251.

Astyages and Cyrus, History of, on ta-
pestry. i. 205.

Atalanta, Tale of. i. clvii.
Atchlow, a player. iii. 352.
Athanasian Creed, versified by W. Whyt-

tingham. iii. 148. By Hunnis. iii. 158.
Athanasius, Crced of, versified. i. 23.
Athelard, a monk of Bath, the Arabic

Euclid translated into Latin by, i. xciv.
Athelstan, King, ode on. i. xxxi. xxxii.
XXXV. xxxvi. Saxon ode on his vic-
tory. i. lxvi. to lxxxi. a poem on. i.
84 to 88.

Athys and Prophylias, a French metrical
romance. i. 141.

Atis and Porphilion, Romance of. i. clxiii.
Atropoion Delion, a poem. iii. 317.
Attecliff, William. ii. 557.

Attila, Verses in praise of. i. xliii.
Auberinus Caius. ii. 553.

Aubrey, iii. 40.

Auctours, uncertain. iii. 41. 51.

Audley, Lord Chancellor, poem on the
Death of. iii. 54.

Aventinus, Johannes. i. xliii.

Averroes, an Asiatic philosopher. i. xcii.
xciv. ii. 204 to 206.

Augustodunus, Honorius. i. cxxiii.
Avianus Flavius. ii. 363.

Avicen, or Avicenne, an Arabian phy-
sician. ii. 204.

Aulica, de, by Gabriel Harvey. iii. 344.
Aulularia of Plautus, exhibited before

Queen Elizabeth at Cambridge. ii. 527.
Aunfour, le Romaunz de Père, coment il
aprist et chastia son fils belement. i.
cxlii.

Aungerville, Richard. See Richard of
Bury.

Avranches, Henry de, or Henry the Ver-
sifier. i. 45.

Aurelianus, Cælius. i. cviii.

Aurelio and Isabella, Romance of. iii.
385.

Aurelius, Marcus, Golden Boke of, by
Lord Berners. iii. 232.

Aurora, or History of the Bible alle-

gorised, by Petrus de Riga. ii. 363.
Ausonius. i. lxxxiv. ii. 362. Epigrams
of, translated by Kendall. iii. 349.
Austin, St. i. xc. xciii. c. clxxix. clxxxii.
cxc. ii. 168.

B.

B. G. i. e. perhaps Bernard Garter. iii.
341, 342.

Babione de, et Croceo Domino Babionis,

et Viola filiastra Babionis, quam Cro-
ceus duxit invito Babione, et Pecula
Uxore Babionis, et Fodio suo. ii. 16,
17.

Babyon, Peter. ii. 16.

Bacon, Roger. i. cxxxv. cxxxvi. 90. ii. 89,

175, 178, 179, 203, 228, 230, 316, 337.
Bacon, Sir Nicholas. iii. 275.
Badby. ii. 383.

Bade, Joce, Brandt's Ship of Fooles
translated into French by. ii. 420.
Badius Jodocus, his Commentary on Man-
tuan. ii. 432.

Balantyn, or Ballenden, John. ii. 478.
Baldwyn, William. iii. 159, 183 to 185,
223, 261.

Bale, John. i. xcvii. civ. 80, 129. ii. 15,
18, 92, 380, 530, 531. iii. 53, 64, 65,
78, 82. iii. 170, 173, 179, 184, 261.
Ballades et Rondelles, L'Art de dictier.
ii. 222, 313, 314.

Balsamon, patriarch of Antioch. ii. 518.
Balsham, Hugh de. ii. 89.

Banastre, or Banestre, William. i. 70.
Gilbert, i. 70. ii. 238.

Bancroft, archbishop. iii. 394.
Bandello. iii. 379, 391.

Banier, i. xxi.

Banishment of Cupid. iii. 385.
Banockburn, a poem, by Laurence Mi-
not. iii. 102.

Banquet of Daintie Conceiptes. iii. 391.
Bansley, Charles. iii. 82.

Baptism and Temptation, an interlude,
by John Bale. iii. 78.
Barbarossa, Frederick, Latin poem on the
Wars of, by Gunther. i. cxxxiii.
Barbarus Hermolaus. ii. 557.
Barbatoria, or Shew of Beards. ii. 510.
Barbour, John. ii. 110 to 113.
Barcham, Dr. John. ii. 214. iii. 232.
Barclay, Alexander. ii. 369, 371, 418,
419 to 431, 499, 558.

Bards, Irish, Account of the. i. xxxvii.

Welsh, Account of the. i. xxxvii. to xli.
Celtic, Account of the. i. xlii.

Barlaam and Josaphat, Romance of, by

Joannes Damascenus. i. clxxiii. clxxiv.
clxxxii. clxxxvi. ii. 284, 285, 493.
Barnabas of Cyprus. ii. 168.
Barnefielde, Richard. iii. 328.
Barnes, or Berners, Julyana. ii. 366.
Barrett, John. iii. 327, 335.
Barrington's Observations on the Ancient
Statutes. i. 45. ii. 213.

Barthius. i. cxxx. cxxxi.

Bartholinus, or Bartholine. i. 206, 207.
Bartholomeus. iii. 393.

Basingstoke, John of. See John.
Basset, Mrs. ii. 543.

Bastard, Thomas. iii. 233.

Baston, Robert. i. 68. ii. 15, 31, 333.
Bate, John. ii. 554.

Bathoniensis, Adelardus, Quintilian's De-
clamations abridged by. i. lxxxv.

Bathsabe and David, Play of, by Geo.
Peele. iii. 270.

Batman, or Bateman, Dr. Stephen. iii.
393.

Batman's Doom. iii. 393.
Batrachomuomachy of Homer, translated
by Demetrius Zenus. ii. 134. by Chap-
man. iii. 359. by Dr. Johnson. iii. 349,
350. imitated by John Heywood. iii.

92.

Battailes plusieurs des Rois d'Israel en-
contre les Philistines et Assyriens. ii.
403.

Battayle of Troye, by Guido de Columna.
i. 129 to 131.

Battell of Jerusalem, a poem, by Adam
Davie. ii. 1.

Batthall, an Arabian warrior, Life of, &c.
i. xi.

Battle of Hastings, by Rowlie. ii. 358.
Bavande, William. iii. 228.

Bayard, La Vie et les Gestes du Preux
Chevalier. ii. 185.

Bayes, poem on. iii. 58.

Beard, D., Theatre of God's Judgements,
by. iii. 241, 353.

Beatrice, a female juggler. i. 46.

Beau Miracle de S. Nicolas, French play
of. iii. 268.

Beauchamp, Lord. i. 146.

Beauclerc, Henry. cxii.

Beaumont. ii. 538. iii. 232, 234.

Beauvais, Vincent de. See Vincent de
Beauvais.

Beccaria, Antonio de. ii. 267, 268.
Beccatelli, Antonio. i. cxv.

Becket, St. Thomas of. i. cxix. Martyr-
dom of. i. 14. Life of. i. 17. by Her-
bert Bosham, translated into English
Rymes by Laurence Wade. ii. 418,
419. into French, by Langtoft. iii 419.
Legend of. i. 17. ii. 311, 381, 560, 561,
562.

Bede. i. x. xc. xcvii. xcviii. civ. cv. cxviii.
cxxi. 131. ii. 232, 371, 388. iii. 209.
Bedford, Jasper, duke of, Epitaph on, by
Skelton. ii. 489.

Bedwell, William. iii. 99.

Beearde, Richard. iii. 263.
Behn, Mrs. ii. 538.

Belisaire, or Belisarius, Romance of. ii. 134.
Bell, David. iii. 364.
Bellay. iii. 287.

Belle Dame sans Mercy, by Chaucer. ii.
218.

Belleforest. i. cxl. clv. iii. 393.
Belle-perche, Gualtier Arbalestrier de.
i. cxviii. ii. 240.

Bellisaire, ou le Conquerant. ii. 134.
Bellovacensis Vincentius. i. 128, 136. ii.
282, 462, 503.

Bellum contra Runcivallum. i. 81.
Bellum Trojanum, a poem. i. 131.
Beltrand, or Bertrand's Amours with
Chrysatsa. ii. 134.

Belvedere, or Garden of the Muses, by
John Bodenham. iii. 233.
Bembo, Pietro. iii. 287.

Benedict, abbot of Peterborough, i. cxiv.
cxxi.

Benedictus, Alexander. i. 136, 162.
Benet's Christmasse Game. ii. 361.
Benivieni, Jeronimo. ii. 432.
Benjamin, a Jew traveller. i. 90.
Bennet. ii. 406.

Benoit de Sainct More. i. 139. ii. 305,
313. Metrical Romance of the Dukes
of Normandy, by. ii. 416.

Bentley. iii. 352.

Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon poem cele-
brating the wars of, edited by the Che-
valier Thorkelin. i. 2. Mr. Turner's
version of particular parts. ibid.
Beral, las Complanchas de, a poem, by
Fouquet. i. 122.

Bercheur, Peter, Livy translated into
French by. ii. 315, 316.

Berchorius, Petrus, or Pierre Bercheur,
author of the Gesta Romanorum. i. cc.
to cciv.

Bercy, Hugues de. i. 35.

Ber. Gar., perhaps Bernard Garter. iii.

342.

Bergeretta, or the Song of Shepherds, a
inummery celebrated in the city of Be-
sançon. ii. 515.

Bergman, Johannes. ii. 522.
Berlin, Romance of. i. 138.
Berlington, John. i. 70.

Bernard's Homilies on the Canticles. i.
lxxxviii.

Bernard, Saint, Legend of. i. clxxxvii.
Bernard, Andrew. ii. 334.

Bernard, Richard. iii. 363.

Bernardinus. ii. 523.

Berners, Lord. iii. 52, 63, 132, 232. His
translation of Froissart's Chronicle. ii.
124.

Berners, or Barnes, Juliana, ii. 366, 367.
Berni. i. 135. ii. 180, 181.

Bertrand du Guescelin, French romance
of. i. 134.

poem on the Art of Versification by. ii.
363.

Beuves de Hanton, Romance of, by Père
Labbe. See Sir Bevis.

Bever's Manuscript Chronicle. i. xc.
Beverley, Peter. iii. 387.

. Bevis of Southampton, Romance of. iii.
128. See Sir Bevis.

Beza, Theodore. iii. 143, 349.
Bibienna, Cardinal. ii. 547.

Bible, History of the, by Leoninus. i.
cxviii.

Bible Hystoriaus la, ou les Histoires
Escolastres. i. xc.

Bible allegorised. i. cc. cci.

Bible, a satire, by Hugues de Bercy. i. 38.
Bible. i. 21. ii. 403. Heroick poem on
the History of, by Apollinaris. ii. 518.
Translated into Latin by Saint Jerom.
ii. 242. Metrical Versions of. ii. 311,
312. History of, allegorised.in Latin
Verse, by Petrus de Riga. ii. 363.
Bible, translated by William Bedwell. iii.
99.

Bible Guiot de Provins, notice of. i. 35.
Bible, la, Seignor de Berze, notice of.

Bird, William. iii. 64.
Birinus, Saint, History of, represented on
the ancient font in Winchester cathe-
dral, &c. i. xc. Account of. i. xcvi.
Life of. i. cxxxiii.

Biscop, Benedict. i. xcvii. civ,

Blair Arnaldi Relationes, by Blind Harry.
ii. 113.

Blair, or Blare, Robert. ii. 113.

Blandamoure, Sir, Romance of. i. 146,202.
Blase, Bishop. iii. 288.

Blasts of Retrait from Plaies, the Second
and Third. iii. 241.

Blaunpayne, Michael. i. cxxxiii. 46.
Blazon of Jealousie, by R. T. iii. 388.
Blesensis, archdeacon of London. i. 136.
Blessedness of Brytaine, a poem, by Kyf-
fin. iii. 363.

Blind Harry, ii. 113 to 120, 487.

Blois, Peter de. i. cxx. cxxiii. cxxv. ii.

287, 318, 502, 559 to 562.

Blois, William de. i. cxx. His tragedy de
Flaura et Marco, and a comedy called
Alda. ii. 16.

Blomefield, William. iii. 83. His Blossoms,
or Campe of Philosophy. ibid.

Blondel de Nesle, Minstrel to Richard
the First. i. 116, 120. His story appa-
rently apocryphal. i. 116, 117.
Blondus Flavius. i. cxv.

Blount's Ancient Tenures. iii. 74.
Blundeville, or Blondeville, Thomas. iii.
228.

Boar's Head, Custom of the. iii. 129, 130.
Boccacio Giovanni. i. cxl. exlix. clvi.

clxxiii. clxxiv. clxxxvii. excviii. cciv. ccv.
140, 188. ii. 128 to 140, 144, 161, 162,
170, 171, 183, 190, 191, 197, 219, 220,
234, 243, 266, 270, 283, 284, 294, 320,
382, 401, 407, 493, 502, 530. iii. 96,
187, 211, 287, 371, 374, 376 to 379,
391, 393, 394.

Boccace's Epistle to Pinus, translated by
Lord Surrey. iii. 40.

Boccus and Sidrake, a Romance. ii. 305,
306.

Bodenham, John. iii. 233.
Boerhaave. i. xcii.

Boethius. i. lxxxiii. lxxxix. xciii. c. ciii.
exiv. exlii. ii. 149, 164, 216, 218, 227,
254 to 256, 288, 313, 328, 396, 467,
478, 502, 562.

Boileau. ii. 160, 519, 520.

Bokenham, Osbern. i. 13, 14. ii. 338.
Boleyne, Anne. iii. 41, 42, 57, 64, 137.
Boleyne, George, Viscount Rochford. iii.

51 to 53, 63.

Bolton, Edmund. iii. 39, 229, 231, 232.
Bonaventura de Cœna et Passione Do-
mini, et Pœnis S. Mariæ Virginis,
translated into English Rymes by Rob.
de Brunne. i. 71, 72.

Bonner, Bishop of London. ii. 23. iii. 42.
Booke of Certaine Triumphs. ii. 123.
Borbonius's Epigrams, translated by Ken-
dall. iii. 349.

Borde, Andrew. ii. 197, 336. iii. 72 to 78.
275.

Borel. i. 149, 150.

Borlase's Antiquities of Cornwall. i. xxix.
Borron, Robert. i. 150. ii. 234, 317. His
Translation of the Romance of Lancelot
du Lac. i. 119. His continuation of the
Saint-Graal. i. 137. his Ensierrement
de Merlin, ou Roman de Saint-Graal.
ibid.

Bosham, Herbert of, Life of Thomas of
Becket, by. i. 78. ii. 419.

Botoner, William. ii. 319, 557.
Bottom the Weaver. ii. 506.

Bonge of Court, by Skelton. ii. 498 to
500.

Boulay. ii. 521.

Boun o Hamtun Ystori. i. xxx.
Bouquassiere, by Jean de Courci. ii.

318.

Bourchier, John, Lord Berners. iii. 52,

63, 64, 132, 232.

Bourdour, Account of the. i. 174.
Bovillus, or Bullock, Henry. iii. 4.
Boxhornius. ii. 362.

Boy and the Mantle, or le Court Mantel,
Story of. i. vi.

Boyardo. i. xvii. 135. ii. 179.
Boy Bishop, Ceremony of the. ii. 30, 521,
531, 532. iii. 251, 252, 265 to 267.
Bozmanni, Cardinal. iii. 552.
Bradshaw, Henry. ii. 371 to 380.
Bradwardine, archbishop. ii. 165, 188,
230.

Braham, John. ii. 292.

Brandon, Charles and Henry. iii. 15. Ac-
count of. iii. 279. Epitaphia on, by
Wilson. iii. 349.

2

Brandt, Sebastian. ii. 420, 424, 425.
Bretomanna Saga. i. xlvi.

Breton, Guillaume, le. i. cxxx. cxxxiii.
Breton, Nicholas. iii. 325, 391.

Breviari d'Amor, by Eymegau de Bezers.
i. cxcvi.

Breviarie of Britaine, by T. Twyne. iii.
321.

Breviary of Health, by Andrew Borde,
iii. 73, 74.

Brian, Sir Francis. See Bryan.
Brice, Thomas. iii. 289.

Bridlington, or Berlington, John. i. 70.
Briggam, or Brigham, Nicholas. iii. 288.
Brimsly's Translation of Virgil's Bucolics,
and Fourth Georgic. iii. 327.
Britannus Eremita. i. x.

Brithnoth, Offa's Ealdorman, Ode in praise
of. i. 2.

British Muse, by Thomas Hayward. iii.
234.

Britons, their migration to Armorica. i.
vi. vii.

Britte, or Brithe, Walter. ii. 87.
Broadgate Hall, Oxford, Account of. iii.

88.

Bromele, abbot of Hyde monastery. iii.

9.

Brooke, Thomas, iii. 381. Arthur. iii.
379 to 381.

Brooke, William de. ii. 89.

Brown, prebendary of Westminster. iii.
321.

Browne, William. i. clxxxviii. clxxxix.
Bruce, Robert, King of Scots, poem on,
by Robert Baston. ii. 15, 16. by John
Barbour, ii. 110 to 113.

Bruit, le Petit, by Raufe de Boun. i. 59.
Brun, Mons. Le, Avantures d'Apolonius
de Thyr, par. ii. 134.

Brunetto Latini wrote his Tesoro in

French. i. 147. Account of his Tesoro
and Tesoretto. ii. 316. iii. 201, 202,
213.

Brunne, Robert de. iii. 117. His transla-
tion of the Manuel des Pechés, a free
version. i. 55, 56. See Robert de
Brunne.

Bruno's Epigrams, translated by Kendall.
iii. 349.

Brus, or Bruce, Robert, poem on. ii. 15,
16. See Bruce.

Calligraphy, Account of the Specimens of
i. ci. cii.

Callimachus and Chrysorrhoe, the Lover
of, a Romance. ii. 132.

Callinicus, inventor of the Grecian fire. i.
161.

Calliopius. i. cxiv.

Callistines. i. 128, 132, 134.
Callot. ii, 444.

Caltha Poetarum. iii. 394.

Calvin, John. ii. 479. iii. 8. 144, 145,
149, 157.

Cambrensis Gyraldus. i. cxxiv. cxxv. 91.
135. ii. 106. 176.

Cambucas, by Vincent Beauvais. i. clxvi.
Cambyses, Play of, by Preston. iii. 242.
Camden, William. i. cxxx. iii. 310, 325.
Camera obscura discovered by Roger Ba-
con. ii. 178.

Camillus Julius. ii. 549.
Camoens. ii. 178.

Campaspe, Alexander, and Apelles, ballet
of. iii. 342.

Campbell, Dr. iii. 234.

Campden, Hugh, Translation of the Ro-

mance of Sidrac by. i. 202. ii. 305, 306.
Campe of Philosophy. iii. 83.

Campion, Edmund. iii. 243, 324. Thomas.
iii. 378.

Campo di Fior, or the Flourie Field of
Four Languages of M. Claudius De-
sainliens. iii. 374.

Candidus Petrus. ii. 267.

Canning, William. ii. 336, 340, 341. See
Rowlie or Chatterton.
Cantacuzenus, John. ii. 132.

Canterbury Tales. i. clxxxiv. iii. 177.
Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer :-