[307] Perhaps (^1) _Apollonius of Tyre_, a Greek love-story of the 3rd or 4th century, perhaps translated into Latin verse in the fifth century, and re-translated into Latin prose in the twelfth or thirteenth century. An ancient Anglo-Saxon translation was printed by Thorpe in 1834. Gower’s _Confessio Amantis_ (Bk. viij) is an adaptation of it, and it is also one of the sources of Shakespeare’s _Pericles_. The earliest English version now known was made in 1510 from the French. (See _Encyclopædia Britannica_, Vol. XX, p. 635.) (^2) Or, _The Life of Apollonius of Tyana_, by Philostratus (born _c._ 175 A.D.). [308] Hugh, the eighth Abbot of Reading, who founded, in the year 1190, a hospital for twenty-six poor people and for the entertainment of travellers. Transcriber’s Notes: 1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently. 2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original. 3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original. 4. Superscripts are represented using the caret character, e.g. D^r. or X^{xx}. 5. Italics are shown as _xxx_.