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    Copy, subscribed A lamentable of Kyng Edward ye iiij, on ff. 131r-2r in a volume also containing copies of Mandeville's Travels and other works.

    c.1487.

    Later in the library of the family of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, near Skipton, West Yorkshire. William H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 77 (1948), item 144 (p. 149), with a facsimile of f. 131r.

    Edited from this MS in Kinsman. Collated in Dyce.

    • SkJ 16
      No description or publication history available.

      Canon, D53, pp. 16-17. First published (lacking lines 37-48) in Certaine bokes copyled by mayster Skelto (London, c.1545). Complete in Dyce (1843), I, 1-5, and in Robert S. Kinsman, A Lamentable of Kyng Edward the IIII, Huntington Library Quarterly, 29 (1966), 95-108.

      John Skelton, Of the Death of the Noble Prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth ('Miseremini mei, ye that be my frendis!')

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