. A Chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483 : written in the fifteenth century, and for the first time printed from mss. in the British Museum : to which are added numerous contemporary illustrations, consisting of royal letters, poems, and other articles descriptive of public events, or of the manners and customs of the metropolis. hich remain, it originally consisted of aboutnine more verses. It is written in the hand of the period in which the eventsto which it alludes took place, and as the documents in the volume from whichit is copied end in the succeeding reign, there is every reason to
. A Chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483 : written in the fifteenth century, and for the first time printed from mss. in the British Museum : to which are added numerous contemporary illustrations, consisting of royal letters, poems, and other articles descriptive of public events, or of the manners and customs of the metropolis. hich remain, it originally consisted of aboutnine more verses. It is written in the hand of the period in which the eventsto which it alludes took place, and as the documents in the volume from whichit is copied end in the succeeding reign, there is every reason to presume that itwas entered in the Records of the City of London within a short period after itwas composed. Every line of each verse contains the same letter in the middleof the line, and every line ends with the same letter : these two letters are placedin the middle and at the end of each verse, separated from the words to whichthey belong, but connected with them by lines in the manner in which the firstverse of the Poem is here printed, and which has been considered sufficient to showthe singular manner in which it was originally written. 192 ILLUSTRATIONS. hic incipit quida rismus ftus de pdicone vascon et de eiusd CONQUESTU P* R* E* FILIU REG h\ Satis novit seculuQualiter fit speculuQuia p pfidia_-^*^Jam pdit Vasconia. De lingua GalloruPatens traditoruPessimam iporuPrinceps Anglicoru
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