The history of England : written in French . ight tend to the Proof of the an-cient Vaffalage of Scotland to the Crown of England; and hearing of an old Record in that Kingdom which put the Matter pall difpute, he went in difcuifewith much ado brought it away, and (hewed it to Henry V, Henry VI, and Edward IV. To the laft of thefe he dedicated his two Books of Chrmiclts inEnglijk Rhime. Printed at London, 1543. William Caxton was a menial Servant for thirty years together to Margaret, Duchefs of Burgundy, (Sirt»r to Edward IV.) in Flanders. Findin?as he fays, after his return to England, an im
The history of England : written in French . ight tend to the Proof of the an-cient Vaffalage of Scotland to the Crown of England; and hearing of an old Record in that Kingdom which put the Matter pall difpute, he went in difcuifewith much ado brought it away, and (hewed it to Henry V, Henry VI, and Edward IV. To the laft of thefe he dedicated his two Books of Chrmiclts inEnglijk Rhime. Printed at London, 1543. William Caxton was a menial Servant for thirty years together to Margaret, Duchefs of Burgundy, (Sirt»r to Edward IV.) in Flanders. Findin?as he fays, after his return to England, an imperfect Hiftory, he continued it in Enghfo, under the Latin Title of Frucius Temporum. It begins with the firstinhabiting of this Illand, and ends (the laft year of Edward IV.) 1483. Folio, printed 1515. John Rosse, or Rous, travelled over the greateft part of England; and having made large Collection! cat of the Libraries where he came, he writthe Hiftory of our Kings, which is ftill extant in MS in the Cottovitn Library, He died in N° XXXVI. 8 P THE
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