. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . een rimes in ;/and !/(, but this is Northern. After making all allowances for confusionon the poets part concerninfr Chaucers use of final e, and for its probableomission in many cases by the copyist of the JIS., there still remain severallines where James evidently allowed the pause to supply the place of anunaccented syllable, or where uncertain accent (schn-chmdc liitoiivnfi) extendsbeyond the second foo
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . een rimes in ;/and !/(, but this is Northern. After making all allowances for confusionon the poets part concerninfr Chaucers use of final e, and for its probableomission in many cases by the copyist of the JIS., there still remain severallines where James evidently allowed the pause to supply the place of anunaccented syllable, or where uncertain accent (schn-chmdc liitoiivnfi) extendsbeyond the second foot. Anakrusis is omitted more frequently than inCbaucers heroic line. EARLY SCOTTISH LITEIiATUBE. cm Andrew of Wvntown. born about the middle of the fom--teenth century, though he wrote in verse, was no poet, butrather the first Scot to write the history of his land in thevulgar tongue. John of Fordoun, a contemporary of Barbour,the author of the tirst five books of the Scotichronicon, andWalter Bower, Abbot of Inchcolm, who had written the con-clusion from the death of David I. in 1153, in another elevenbooks, had anticipated Wyntown as historians, but their appeal Andrew Tin: IKiuKV ui ST. sEi:r, Lucii leven. was only to those who could read Latin. The same remarkapplies to Fordouns Gesta Annalia, added as supplement tohis Chronicle, which gave a record of events from the time ofStephen down to the year 1385. But Wj-ntowns book wasmeant to be and was a popular handbook, and, therefore, was?\\Titten in Scottish, and, above all, in verse of the popularfour-accent romance measure adopted by Barbour. Andrew ofWyntown became in time (1395) Prior of St. Serfs, a foundationwithin the jurisdiction of the powerful priory of St. began to write his Oryg3nale Cronykil of Scotland atthe request of his friend, Sir John of the Wemyss; he finishedit between the death of the Duke of iUbany in 1420. andJames return to Scotland in 1424, and he probably did not Hemryson
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