ABSTRACT
It is impossible, within any reasonable space, to do justice to the picturesque side of this section; but here the reader has many first-rate authorities easily accessible; e.g. Berners’s Froissart (Globe Edition, abbreviated), Adam of Usk (tr. Maunde Thompson, 1904), Sir Thomas Gray’s Scalacronica (tr. Stirling-Maxwell, 1907), Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, and Bohn’s translations of Matthew Paris and many other chronicles. Apart, therefore, from a few extracts illustrating the relations between king and people, the reader will here find only documents which he would be less likely to meet with independently.
