Produced by Paul Murray, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) HENRY THE SIXTH CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, MANAGER LONDON: FETTER LANE, E.C. 4 NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS BOMBAY } CALCUTTA } MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. MADRAS } TORONTO: J. M. DENT AND SONS, LTD. TOKYO: MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Henry the Sixth A REPRINT OF JOHN BLACMAN'S MEMOIR WITH TRANSLATION AND NOTES BY M. R. JAMES, LITT. D., F.B.A., F.S.A. PROVOST OF ETON FORMERLY PROVOST OF KING'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1919 CONTENTS PREFACE PAGE vii TEXT 1 TRANSLATION 23 NOTES 45 SPECIAL NOTES I. A PRAYER TO HENRY VI IN ENGLISH VERSE 50 II. ON THE MANUSCRIPT MIRACLES OF HENRY VI. 51 III. ON JOHN BLACMAN'S BOOKS 55 PREFACE The tract on the Personality of King Henry VI (as I may perhaps be allowed to call it), which is here reprinted, has hitherto been almost inaccessible to ordinary students. It is not known to exist at all in manuscript. We depend ultimately for our knowledge of it upon a printed edition issued by Robert Coplande of London, of which the date is said to be 1510. Of this there may be two copies in existence. This text was reprinted by Thomas Hearne in 1732, in his edition of the Chronicles of Thomas Otterbourne and John Whethamstede, of which 150 copies were issued. I have here reprinted Hearne's text, and have collated it with Coplande's. This I was enabled to do through the great kindness of the authorities of St Cuthbert's College at Ushaw, who most generously lent me a copy of the tract preserved in their Library. This copy I will endeavour to describe. It is in a modern binding lettered: _Hylton's Lives of British Saints. Blackman's Life of Henry VI_. The pressmark is XVIII C 4 7 The size is 185 x 130 mm. There are 32 lines to a full page. _Collation_: A6 B4. _Signatures_: A I (2 not signed): A III (4-6 not signed). B I (2 not signed): B III (4 not signed). Ab I _a_ has the title at top: ¶Collectarium Mansuetudinum et bono- rum morum regis Henrici. VI. ex col- lecti[=o]e magistri Joannis blak man bacchalaurei theo logie / et post Car tusie monachi Londini.