WILLIAM DUNBAR. +1450-1530+. Franciscan or Grey Friar; Secretary to a Scotch embassy to France. +The Golden Terge+ (1501); the +Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins+ (1507); and other poems. He has been called “the Chaucer of Scotland.” Jack Cade’s insurrection, 1450. End of the Hundred Years’ War, 1453. GAWAIN DOUGLAS. +1474-1522+. Bishop of Dunkeld, in Perthshire. +Palace of Honour+ (1501); translation of +Virgil’s Æneid+ (1513)-- the first translation of any Latin author into verse. Douglas wrote in Northern English. Wars of the Roses, 1455-86. Edward IV. ascends the throne, 1461. WILLIAM TYNDALE. +1477-1536+. Student of theology; translator. Burnt at Antwerp for heresy. +New Testament+ translated (1525-34); the +Five Books of Moses+ translated (1530). This translation is the basis of the Authorised Version. Edward V. king, 1483. SIR THOMAS MORE. +1480-1535+. Lord High Chancellor; writer on social topics; historian. +History of King Edward V., and of his brother, and of Richard III+. (1513); +Utopia+ (= “The Land of Nowhere”), written in Latin; and other prose works. Richard III. ascends the throne, 1483. Battle of Bosworth, 1485. SIR DAVID LYNDESAY. +1490-1556+. Tutor of Prince James of Scotland (James V.); “Lord Lyon King-at-Arms;” poet. +Lyndesay’s Dream+ (1528); +The Complaint+ (1529); +A Satire of the Three Estates+ (1535)-- a “morality-play.” Henry VII. ascends the throne, 1485. Greek began to be taught in England about 1497. +1500+ ROGER ASCHAM. +1515-1568+. Lecturer on Greek at Cambridge; tutor to Edward VI., Queen Elizabeth, and Lady Jane Grey. +Toxophilus+ (1544), a treatise on shooting with the bow; +The Scholemastre+ (1570). “Ascham is plain and strong in his style, but without grace or warmth.” Henry VIII. ascends the throne, 1509. Battle of Flodden, 1513. Wolsey Cardinal and Lord High Chancellor, 1515. JOHN FOXE. +1517-1587+. An English clergyman. Corrector for the press at Basle; Prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral; prose-writer. +The Book of Martyrs+ (1563), an account of the chief Protestant martyrs. Sir Thomas More first layman who was Lord High Chancellor, 1529. Reformation in England begins about 1534. EDMUND SPENSER. +1552-1599+. Secretary to Viceroy of Ireland; political writer; poet. +Shepheard’s Calendar+ (1579): +Faerie Queene+, in six books (1590-96). Edward VI. ascends the throne, 1547. Mary Tudor ascends the throne, 1553. +1550+ SIR WALTER RALEIGH. +1552-1618+. Courtier; statesman; sailor; coloniser; historian. +History of the World+ (1614), written during the author’s imprisonment in the Tower of London. Cranmer burnt 1556.