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Excerpt from Three Fifteenth-Century Chronicles: With Historical Memoranda by John Stowe, the Antiquary, and Contemporary Notes of Occurrences Written by Him in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
Some years ago, while engaged on my edition of the Pastor: Letters, I was anxious to examine as far as possible every original source of information for the reigns of Henry VI. And Edward IV.; and, having found some unedited matter relating to those reigns in two mss. In the Lambeth Library, I recommended them to the Council of the Camden Society for publication. My preposal was at once agreed to; but in the meantime, a more interesting ms. Having presented itself relating to the same period, the work was kept back to make way for The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London, which appeared in 1876. I have, however, steadily kept in view the fulfilment of my original promise to the Society; and the result is that I have been led to do somewhat more than I originally contemplated. For it will be seen that the present volume, besides containing contributions from the two Lambeth MS S. Above referred to, includes an unpublished chronicle of the same period, from a ms. In the College of Arms. Moreover, I had scarcely begun to examine the work seriously, when I found that it was quite impossible to omit the bulk of John Stowe's Memoranda in the Lambeth ms. 306; and, although they extend to a much later period, these also have been inserted.
But I must now speak of this ms. More particularly, as it furnishes the greater part of the materials of this work.
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