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Literary remains of King Edward the Sixth
Literary remains of King Edward the Sixth Author:Edward Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: transcribing papers written for him by his masters. In the present instancea he specially notices, that, after the " fair supper," given them by the duke of Some... more »rset, the ambassadors went on the Thames, where they saw the " bear hunted in the river, wildfire cast out of the boats, and many pretty conceits." (England under the Reigns of Edward the Sixth and Mary, 1839, vol. i. p. 290.) It will be observed that this evidence of dictation in a description of some obvious matters of fact is very slight indeed: and, for my own part, in the course of my examination of the several contemporary papers mentioned in my notes to the Journal, I have discovered no proof of Edward having written from dictation — that is to say, subsequently to the introductory summary before mentioned, in which he no doubt had some assistance. I therefore coincide entirely in Bishop Burnet's remarks upon this point, already extracted. Burnet, when he printed the Journal entire, gave it in a form modernized to the orthography of his own day, but therewith encumbered with many errors and misapprehensions, which have not hitherto been corrected.b In the present edition the object has The entertainment of the French ambassadors in May 1550 : see the Journal, p. 273. '' Rurnet, however judicious and penetrating as an historian, was, like other men of genius, hasty and careless. The following are some of the worst errors in his version of the Journal, as printed in the last edition (Oxford, 1829) : Vol. n. Part ii. 13. Sir Tho. Arundel, and six, then—rend Sir John. 15. Rochfort—read Rochepot. 16. Sir John Davies—read Denis. 32. the vicedam Hanandie, instead of—the vicedam, Hanoijdie (two persons). 23. all players—read il (ill) players. 27. 100 keepers for 150, 35. Mr. Crosted—read Cr...« less