• Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne: Introduction

and J. Taylor. Rymes of Robyn Hood. London: Heinemann, 1976. Gutch, J. M. A Litell Gest of Robin Hood with other Auncient and Modern Ballads and Songs Relating to the Celebrated Yeoman. London: Longman, 1847. Vol. II, pp. 68-83. Thomas

• Hudson, Sir Isumbras: Introduction

Douce fragment f 37. London: Wynkynde Worde or W. Copland, 1530? 1550? (STC 14281), one leaf. Oxford, Bodleian Library 1119. London: William Copland?, c. 1530 (STC 14282), one leaf. London, British Library C 21c61, Garrick Collection. London: William Copland, c.

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love, Appendix 2

155 160 165 170 175 180 185 190 Appell[um] . . . Vsk f[a]c[tu]m coram Joh[ann]e Charn[eye] . . . London. The * * * the vijt day in the eyghte yer of the regne of our lord the king

• John Gower, The French Balades: Introduction

completion of his three books”]. “Eneidos, bucolis” is known from five manuscripts: London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iv; University of Glasgow Library, MS Hunter 59 (T. 2.17); London, British Library, MS Harleian 6291; Oxford, All Souls College, MS 98;

• Lydgate, Mummings and Entertainments: Introduction

and to London. Records show that Shirley was in Warwick’s retinue in France and England from 1403 until the late 1420s; when Warwick was appointed tutor to Henry VI in 1428, Shirley appears to have settled in London where, while

• The Palis of Honoure: Introduction

4th series 3 (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1967), pp. 1-133. [Parallel texts of L and E, along with the D fragments.] The Palis of Honoure Compyled by Gawayne Dowglas Bysshope of Dunkyll [London 1553]. The English Experience,

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Introduction

Library, MS Cosin V.ii.14 London, British Library, MS Additional 5140 London, British Library, MS Additional 18632 [Denbigh] London, British Library, MS Additional 29729 London, British Library, MS Arundel 119 London, British Library, MS Cotton Appendix xxvii London, British Library, MS

• A Gest of Robyn Hode: Introduction

to the Celebrated Yeoman. 2 vols. London: Longman, 1847. I, 139-219. A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode. London: Wynkyn de Worde, ?1506-10. [Now in Cambridge University Library.] A Mery Geste of Robyn Hoode. London: Copland, c. 1560. [Now in the

• Lydgate, Mumming at Eltham

Londoners designed to greet the duke of Bedford and his duchess on London Bridge when he entered London in 1426 on his return from France (A. Lancashire, London Civic Theatre, pp. 136–37 and 285n54; I. Lancashire, Dramatic Texts and Records,

• The Testament of Cresseid: Introduction

the Testament in conjunction with other works by Henryson.] Early Printed Editions The Thynne Edition The Workes of Geffray Chaucer. London: Thomas Godfray, 1532. The Charteris Edition The Testament of Cresseid. Edinburgh: Henrie Charteris, 1593. The Anderson Edition The Testament

• Item 2, Right as a Ram’s Horn: Introduction

Huntington Library MS El. 26.A.13; Ashmole 61’s text not collated.] Rigg, A. G. A Glastonbury Miscellany of the Fifteenth Century. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. Pp. 57–59. [Prints text of Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.9.38 and discusses the genre of

• Robin Hood and the Pedlars: Introduction

grounded upon other documents than those made use of by his former biographer, "Mister Ritson." Ed. by John Mathew Gutch. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. II, 351-55. Robin Hood and the Pedlars. In English and Scottish Popular Ballads.

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: Tax Has Tenet Us Alle

regni regem neque gentes. Churles were hor chevetan, vulgo pure dominantes. Thus hor wayes thay wente, pravis pravos aemulantes. To London fro Kent sunt predia depopulantes. Ther was an uvel covent, australi parte vagantes; Sythenne they sone were schent, qui

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: The Letter of John Ball (Stow)

of John Ball, Notes THE LETTER OF JOHN BALL (STOW): NOTES In his A Summarye of the Chronicles of Englande (London: T. Marshe, 1570) - a forerunner or precursor of his The Annales or The Chronicles - Stow first printed

• Lydgate, Mumming at Bishopswood

hall / by Blethenhall greene” [Bethnal Green] (Survey of London, 1:99). Barron notes that Londoners claimed their principal hunting rights on the lands of the bishop of London in Stepney (London, p. 192). On May Day in 1430 the two

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: Man Be Ware and Be No Fool

the repression following the Revolt, to which the quatrain may refer." In 1391 Richard was sufficiently at odds with the city of London, however, for Gower to shift his dedication of the Confessio Amantis from him to Henry of Lancaster.

• Robin Hood and the Potter: Introduction

vols. London: Longman, 1847. Vol. II, 21-35. Ritson, Joseph, ed. Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs and Ballads Now Extant Relative to the Celebrated English Outlaw. 2 vols. London: Egerton and Johnson, 1795. Rpt. London: William

• The Scale of Perfection: Introduction

pp. 25-26. 31 On the London origin of this version, see Gardner (1936), pp. 26-28; Hussey (1992, p. 106) agrees on the London (probably Carthusian) origin, but rejects Gardner's notion that the great houses near London, Sheen and Syon, could

• Pety Job: Introduction

Manuscripts Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 322, fols. 10a-15a. London, c. 1475. [Base text; connected to Dartford Priory.] Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.21, fols. 38a-50b. London, c. 1475. [Copied by a London scribe (fl. 1460-83) who is known to have

• The Four Leaves of the Truelove: Introduction

poems.] London Thornton MS: London, British Library Additional MS 31042, fols. 98a-101b. Yorkshire, c. 1425-50. [One of two miscellanies compiled by Robert Thornton for private or domestic use; Thornton's books preserve several romances and alliterative poems.] Early Print London, British