: giuen? As for the rest, notwithstanding the sweete and plausible honie in their mouthes, haue they not also spitefull and pestilent stings in their tailes? The world neuer more complained of Achitophels, Vlyssees, and Machiavels, than of late yeeres: but take away, or contemne, all malitious suborning of calumnies, libels, and prophesies and shall they not hurt or preuaile much lesse, as well in publike, as in priuate, notwithstanding their other wiliest conueiances and suttellest practises? Were it not ouer great pitie, that any such knack of knauerie, or couenous cheuisance, or hipocritical policy, or Mercuriall strategeme, either by false libelling, or false prophesieng, or other falsifieng of matters & maners, should peremptorily ouerthrow or traiterously vndermine, any well gouerned or wel established state? God, they say, sendeth commonly a curst cow short horns: and doth not the diuel, I say, in the winde-vpall, and in fine, oftner play wilie beguile him selfe, and crucifie his owne wretched lims, then atchieue his mischieuous and malicious purposes, howsoeuer craftilie conueied, or feately packed, either in one fraudulent sort or other? p. 86, 1. 310. Popish Masses and Persecutions." SIVQUILA (= Aliquis). . . . after I departed from the carnal Gospellers, I came among the peruerse Papists, among whom was such Superstition, Idolatrie, and Massing, with other abhominations, besids the imprisoning, racking, punishing, killing and burning of the true professors of Christ, that I could not choose but openlye tell the truth & their faults. Which in no wise they could abyde to heare. Wherby quickly I was imprisoned, & there so punished that the vnchristen Turkes woulde not so haue vsed me. Nemo). How chaunceth that? for they name them "SI. They are christians in name: but Diuels in their deeds." 1580. Thomas Lupton, Sivquila, p. 2-3 (A later and poorer Utopia, that gave Stubbes the name of Ailgna (= Anglia) for England, sign. B. Omens (or Nemo's) country is Mauqsun (= Nusquam, nowhere), p. 8).. "(From p. 96, 1. 684. Oxford and Stamford: the Pilgrim's Oath. Mark Pattison, Lincoln College, Oxford.) In 1334 there was a large secession from Oxford both of scholars and teachers, to Stamford, where schools had existed from time immemorial. "The Chancellor of Oxford appealed to the King, and the seceders were brought back by force. To prevent the recurrence of a similar secession, an oath was henceforward exacted from every student on taking his B.A. แ "item, tu jurabis quod non leges, nec audies Stamfordiæ tanquam in universitate, studio, vel collegio, generali.' See A. Wood, Annals, Gutch's ed. i. 431. "For the existence of schools at Stamford see Spenser, F. Q. IV. xi. 35, 'And shall see Stamford, though now homely hid, Mr W. Christie p. 101. Godfray's edition of The Plowmans Tale. Miller writes of his father's unique book: "The Godfray is a fine copy (folio), but wants the first leaf. I send a transcript of the few lines of prologue : They mowe by lawe / as they fayne A preest in pulpyt a good prechyng Sayon quod our host / I the beseche I pray you that no man me reproche Thus endeth the prologue / and here (Colophon)¶ Printed at Lon- 148 INDEX. a for ei 94/615 means page 94, line 615. persaue, perceive, 94/| Albyon; when it shall come to 615 (see desayue, disayuer); for ea, 'Abandon' defind, 42. confusion, xlvi. Alice, Countess of Salisbury, 26. Abbey Libraries, searcht for copies Alice, Duchess of Suffolk, 26. of Chaucer, 6. Abbeylubbers, 145/1. Abbeys: Thynne share in their Abergavenny, barony of; F. refuse. alure, v. t. 89/432. Amadis du Gaul, tale of, 144. a-mort, 96/673, dead. Absolon's knock in The Millers Animadversions on Speght's 'Chaucer,' by F. Thynne, com- Anslay, Bryan, xxxi, n. Anstis, the Herald; his life of Anthonyn, 81/155, Antonine monk. Antichrist, 86/337, 340. Antiquaries, new Society of: their Antique, cxxx, player of antics. Babylon, on the Whore's fore- Bacon's ideal life, cxv, note 1. Bale's Scriptores and the Courte barns and stables round the court- yard of an abbey, 78/27. Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus upon Bartholome' quoted, 68, n. arms are animal, vegetable, or beall, 88/410, Baal. Arnold of the New Town, the Arthur, King, tale of, 144. Ashburnham, Lord, xli. Ashmole MS. 766, p. 134. ask, 92/518, asp, serpent. aspirers, 145, men eager to rise atonment, 92/529, one. Beast with 7 heads and 10 horns, Beaudley Park, Salop; Wm. Becher, F. Thynne's cousin, lviii. Austen, 78/35, 81/134, St Au- Bede's prophecies, 96/665. begging, against God's bidding, gustine. 'Authentic' defind, 42. Avicenna, 135. azure, in Heraldry, is Jupiter, being, xxiv, 1. 35, (being that... 111/288. 'Begyn,' beguine, defind, 37. are,) since. bekers, 81/154, beggars. Bell-vider, 105/86, Belvedere in Benedictines, 78/40. Benet, St Benedict a working : Bevis of Southampton, tale of, 144. bigot defind, 37. Bishop, a Papist: his knowledge of a woman's shape, 16, n. bishops, bad, 9. Booke of Foote of Parcells, xxxiii, books; F. Thynne's sweet friends, Boorde, Andrew; his opinion of boots, a Monk's, 82/180. bowcer, 79/72, bursar. Bradshaw, Henry, a black monk Bishops stop men preaching the Brae, A. E., on the date of the truth, 83/237. bisogniers, 145, needy scamps? Blanche, the Duchess of Lancas- of her Coferers, xxvii, or Con- Bolton, Prior; Hall the Chroni- Nun's Priest's Tale, 62, n. Brewer's (J. J. S.) Calendar of Henry VIII Papers, cited, xxi. Brooke, George, Lord Cobham's |