Early English Text Society. THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER'S COMMEMORATION FUND. WITH the last day of 1873, the Early English Text Society closed the tenth year of its existence. During its short life it has done more and better work than any other Society of like kind. It has made possible, for the first time, a knowledge of the history of the English language; it has made accessible to all, the most valuable documents of that history; it has stirred-up the study of English historically in schools and colleges, and by students generally; it has wiped away from England the old well-deserved reproach of indifference to, of ignorance of, the sources of its noble tongue, which for beauty and power stands level with, if it does not excel, the choicest languages of the world. The change that the Society's ten-years' life has wrought in the scientific study of English, is gladly acknowledged by the scholars of the Continent and the United States, but has not yet met with due recognition in England, where the Society is insufficiently supported. Its work is continually hampered by lack of funds. It has now liabilities that it cannot discharge. The Duke of Manchester has therefore come forward to head a Commemoration Fund in help of the Early English Text Society, at this, the close of its first ten-years' work, and has proposed that-in the first instance at least £200 should be raised by twenty donations of £10 each, and that any number of smaller donations should be received. The Duke has himself given a donation of £10 to the Fund. The Marquis of Ripon, the late head of the Educational Department of the country, has also contributed the sum of £10 expressly on account of the service done by the Society to the cause of the historical study of English. Mr Richard Johnson of Langton Oaks, near Manchester, has given his donation of £10 mainly because the Society's publications have so remarkably illustrated the social condition and habits of our ancestors. A London "Friend" has added his £10 because he thinks it the duty of Englishmen to show their appreciation of the generous sacrifice of time and brain made by the Society's editors to promote the study of Alfred's and Chaucer's tongue. 1 The Duke's £200 Fund (ten donations of £20 each), in aid of the Chaucer Society, has been already raised this year, and applied to the purposes of the Chaucer Society, The Commemoration Fund is thus well started. I have only to appeal to you to contribute to it, either by giving or collecting a donation of Ten Pounds, or any smaller amount. All money should be paid either to the Society's Honorary Secretary, ARTHUR G. SNELGROVE, Esq., London Hospital, London, E., or the Early English Text Society's account with the Union Bank, Prince's Street, London, E.C., or to me, FREDK. J. FURNIVALL, Feb. 1, 1874. (1st date, Nov. 3, 1873.) PRIMROSE HILL, LONDON, N.W. Donors of £10. THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER. A FRIEND. J. S. B. PROF. F. J. CHILD. Donors of sums under £10. N. TRÜBNER, Esq., £5 5s. F. HARRIS, Esq., £2. A. MACMILLAN, ESQ., £1 1s. DR ERNEST ADAMS, £1 1s. MISS A. M. RICHARDSON, £1 18. PROF. JOSEPH PAYNE, £1 18. MR BUMPUS, £1 1s. THE REV. WM. WILLIAMSON, THE REV. CANON TOOLE, £1 18. List of the Early English Text Society's Books. ORIGINAL SERIES (One guinea a year). The Publications for 1864 (21s.) are :— 1. Early English Alliterative Poems, ab. 1360 A.D., ed. R. Morris. 16s. 2. Arthur, ab. 1440, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 4s. 3. Lauder on the Dewtie of Kyngis, &c., 1556, ed. F. Hall. 4s. 4. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, ab. 1360, ed. R. Morris. 10s. The Publications for 1865 (21s.) are :— 5. Hume's Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue, ab. 1617, ed. H. B. Wheatley. 4s. 6. Lancelot of the Laik, ab. 1500, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. Ss. 7. Genesis and Exodus, ab. 1250, ed. R. Morris. (Reprinting.) 8. Morte Arthure, ab. 1440, ed. E. Brock. 78. 9. Thynne on Chaucer's Works, ab. 1598, ed. Dr Kingsley. 10. Merlin, ab. 1440, Part I., ed. H. B. Wheatley. 11. Lyndesay's Monarche, &c., 1552, Part I., ed. F. Hall. 12. The Wright's Chaste Wife, ab. 1462, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 1s. The Publications for 1866, out of print, are :— 13. Seinte Marherete, 1200-1330, ed. Rev. O. Cockayne. 14. King Horn, Floris and Blancheflour, &c., ed. Rev. J. R. Lumby. 15. Political, Religious, and Love Poems, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 16. The Book of Quinte Essence, ab. 1460-70, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 17. Parallel Extracts from 29 MSS. of Piers the Plowman, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 18. Hali Meidenhad, ab. 1200, ed. Rev. O. Cockayne. 19. Lyndesay's Monarche, &c., Part II., ed. F. Hall. 20. Hampole's English Prose Treatises, ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. 21. Merlin, Part II., ed. H. B. Wheatley. 22. Partenay or Lusignen, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 23. Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340, ed. R. Morris. The Publications for 1867 (one guinea, less No. 24, 25, 26, out of print) are:-24. Hymns to the Virgin and Christ; the Parliament of Devils, &c., ab. 1430, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 3s. 25. The Stacions of Rome, the Pilgrims' Sea-voyage, with Clene Maydenhod, ed. F. J. Furnivall. 18. 26. Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse, from R. Thornton's MS. (ab. 1440), ed. Rev. G. G. Perry. 2s. 27. Levins's Manipulus Vocabulorum, 1570, ed. H. B. Wheatley. 12s. 28. William's Vision of Piers the Plowman, 1362 A.D. Part I. The earliest or Vernon Text; Text A. Edited by Rev. W. W. Skeat. 6s. 29. Early English Homilies (ab. 1220-30 A.D.) from unique MSS. in the Lambeth and other Libraries. Part I. Edited by R. Morris. 7s. 30. Pierce the Plowman's Crede, ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat. 2s. The Publications for 1868 (one guinea) are: 31. Myrc's Duties of a Parish Priest, in Verse, ab. 1420 A.D., ed. E. Peacock. 4s. 32. The Babees Boke, Urbanitatis, the Bokes of Norture of John Russell and Hugh Rhodes, the Bokes of Keruyng, Curtasye, and Demeanour, &c., with some French and Latin Poems on like subjects, ed. from Harleian and other MSS. by F. J. Furnivall. 158. 33. The Knight De La Tour Landry (from French of A.D. 1372), ab. 1440 A.D. A Father's Book for his Daughters, ed. from Harl. MS. 1764 and Caxton's version, by Thomas Wright. 8s. 34. Early English Homilies (before 1300 A.D.) from unique MSS. in the Lambeth and other Libraries. Part II. Edited by R. Morris, 8s. 35. Lyndesay's Works, Part III.: The Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, ed. F. Hall. 2s. The Publications for 1869 (one guinea) are :— 36. Merlin, Part III. Edited by H. B. Wheatley, Esq.; with an Essay on Arthurian Localities, by J. S. Stuart Glennie, Esq. 12s. 37. Lyndesay's Works, Part IV., containing Ane Satyre of the Three Estaits. Edited by F. Hall, Esq. 48. 38. William's Vision of Piers the Plowman, Part II. Text B. Edited from the MSS. by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 10s. 6d. 39. The Alliterative Romance of the Destruction of Troy, translated from Guido de Colonna. Edited by D. Donaldson, Esq., and the Rev. G. A. Panton. Part I. 10s. 6d. The Publications for 1870 (one guinea) are: 40. English Gilds, their Statutes and Customs, 1389 A. D. Edited by the late Toulmin Smith, Esq., and Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith, with a Preliminary Essay, in 5 parts, on The History and Development of Gilds, and the Origin of Trades-Unions,' by Dr Lujo Brentano. 21s. 41. William Lauder's Minor Poems. Edited by F. J. Furnivall, Esq. 3s. 42. Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris, with some Early Scottish Prophecies, &c. From a MS. KK. 1. 5, in the Cambridge University Library. Edited by J. R. Lumby, M.A. 28. 43. Ratis Raving, and other Moral and Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse. Edited from the Camb. Univ. MS. KK. 1. 5, by J. R. Lumby, M.A. 38. The Publications for 1871 are (for one guinea) : 44. The Alliterative Romance of Joseph of Arimathie, or The Holy Grail: a fragment from the Vernon MS.; with Wynkyn de Worde's and Pynson's (A.D. 1526 and 1520) Lives of Joseph; edited by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 5s. 45. King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care, edited from 2 MSS., with an English translation, by Henry Sweet, Esq., of Balliol College, Oxford. Part I. 10s. List of the Early English Text Society's Books. 46. Legends of the Holy Rood, Symbols of the Passion and Cross. Poems in Old English of the 11th, 14th, and 15th centuries. Edited from MSS. by Rev. R. Morris, LL.D. 10s. 47. Lyndesay's Works, Part V., containing his Minor Poems, edited by James A. H. Murray, Esq., with a critical Essay by Professor Nichol of Glasgow. 3s. 48. The Times' Whistle, and other Poems, by R. C., 1616; edited by J. M. Cowper, Esq. 6s. The Publications for 1872 are (for one guinea) : 49. An Old English Miscellany, containing a Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, Religious Poems of the 13th century, edited from the MSS. by the Rev. R. Morris, LL.D. 10s. 50. King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care, edited from 2 MSS., with an English translation, by Henry Sweet, Esq., Balliol College, Oxford. Part II. 10s. 51. The Life of St Juliana, 2 versions, with translations; edited from the MSS. by the Rev. T. O. Cockayne and Mr. Brock. 2s. 52. Palladius on Husbondrie, from the unique MS., ab. 1420 A.D., ed. Rev. B. Lodge. Part I. 10s. The Publications for 1873 are (for one guinea) :— 53. Old English Homilies, Series II., from the unique 13th-century MS. in Trinity Coll. Cambridge, with a photolithograph; three Hymns to the Virgin and God, from a unique 13thcentury MS. at Oxford, a photolithograph of the music to two of them, and transcriptions of it in modern notation by Dr. RIMBAULT, and A. J. ELLIS, Esq., F.R.S.; the whole edited by the Rev. RICHARD MORRIS, LL.D. 8s. 54. The Vision of Piers Plowman, Text C (completing the 3 versions of this great poem), with an Autotype; and two unique alliterative poems: Richard the Redeles (by William, the author of the Vision); and The Crowned King; edited by the Rev. W. W. SKEAT, M.A. 18s. 55. Generydes, a Romance, edited from the unique MS., ab. 1440 A.D., in Trin. Coll. Cambridge, by W. ALDIS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., Trin. Coll. Cambr. Part I. 3s. EXTRA SERIES (One guinea a year). The Publications for 1867 are (for one guinea) : I. William of Palerne; or, William and the Werwolf. Re-edited from the unique MS. in King's College, Cambridge, by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 13s. II. Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S. Part I. 10s. The Publications for 1868 are (for one guinea) : ·-- III. Caxton's Book of Curtesye, in 3 Versions: 1, from the unique print in the Camb, Univ. V. Chaucer's Boethius. Edited from the two best MSS. by R. Morris, LL.D. 12s. The Publications for 1869 are (for one guinea) : 3s. VII. Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S. Part II. 10s. VIII. Queene Elizabethes Achademy, a Book of Precedence, &c. Edited by F. J. Furnivall, Esq., with Essays on early Italian and German Books of Courtesy, by W. M. Rossetti, Esq., and E. Oswald, Esq. 13s. IX. Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caveat, &c. Edited by E. Viles, Esq., and F. J. Furnivall, Esq. 7s. 6d. The Publications for 1870 are (for one guinea) : X. Andrew Boorde's Introduction of Knowledge, 1547. and Dyetary of Helth, 1542; with Barnes in the Defence of the Berde, 1542-3. Edited, with a Life of BOORDE, and an account of his Works, by F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 18s. XI. Barbour's Bruce, Part I. Edited from the MSS. and early printed editions, by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 12s. The Publications for 1871 are (for one guinea) :— XII. England in Henry VIII.'s Time: a Dialogue between Cardinal Pole and Lupset, mainly on the Condition of England, written by Thomas Starkey, Chaplain to Henry VIII. Edited by J. M. Cowper, Esq. Part II. 12s. (Part I., Starkey's Life and Letters, is in preparation.) XIII. A Supplycacyon of the Beggers, by Simon Fish, 1528-9 A.D., edited by F. J. Furnivall, M.A.; with A Supplication to our Moste Soueraigne Lorde; A Supplication of the Poore Commons; and The Decaye of England by the Great Multitude of Sheep, edited by J. M. Cowper, Esq. 6s. XIV. Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by A. J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part III. 10s. The Publications for 1872 are (for one guinea) : XV. Robert Crowley's Thirty-one Epigrams, Voyce of The Last Trumpet, Way to Wealth, &c., 1550-1 A.D., edited by J. M. Cowper, Esq. 12s. XVI. Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe, 1391 A.D. Ed. from MSS. by Rev. W. Skeat, M.A. 10s. XVII. The Complaynt of Scotlande, 1549 A.D., with an Appendix of four Contemporary English Tracts, edited by J. A. H. Murray, Esq. Part I. 10s. The Publications for 1873 are (for one guinea) :— XVIII. The Complaynt of Scotlande, 1549 A D., with an Appendix of four contemporary English Tracts (1542-48), edited by J. A. H. MURRAY, Esq. Part II. 8s. XIX. Oure Ladyes Myroure, A.D. 1530, edited by the Rev. J. H. BLUNT, M.A., with four full-page photolithographic facsimiles by Cooke and Fotheringham. 24s. |