‘Bot I haf grete ferly, that I fynd no man, That has writen in story, how Hauelok this lond wan. Noither _Gildas_, no Bede, no Henry of Huntynton, No William of Malmesbiri, ne Pers of Bridlynton, Writes not in ther bokes of no kyng Athelwold, Ne Goldeburgh his douhtere, ne Hauelok not of told, Whilk tyme the were kynges, long or now late, Thei mak no menyng whan, no in what date. Bot that thise _lowed men vpon Inglish tellis_, Right story can me not ken, the certeynte what spellis. Men sais in Lyncoln castelle ligges ȝit a stone, That Hauelok kast wele forbi euer ilkone & ȝit the chapelle standes, ther he weddid his wife, Goldeburgh the kynges douhter, _that saw is ȝit rife_. & of Gryme a fisshere, _men redes ȝit in ryme_, That he bigged Grymesby Gryme that ilk tyme. Of alle stories of honoure, that I haf thorgh souht, I fynd that no compiloure of him tellis ouht. Sen I fynd non redy, that tellis of Hauelok kynde Turne we to that story, that we writen fynde.’ “There cannot exist the smallest doubt, that by the ‘Ryme’ here mentioned ‘that lowed men vpon Inglish tellis,’ the identical English Romance, now before the reader, is referred to. It must therefore certainly have been composed prior to the period at which Robert of Brunne wrote,[10] in whose time the traditions respecting Havelok at Lincoln were so strongly preserved, as to point out various localities to which the story had affixed a name, and similar traditions connected with the legend, as we shall find hereafter, existed also at Grimsby. The doubts expressed by the Chronicler, as to their authenticity, or the authority of the ‘Ryme,’ are curious, but only of value so far as they prove he was ignorant of the existence of a French Romance on the subject, or of its reception in Gaimar’s historical poem.” [Footnote 9: This proof is rendered unnecessary by the citations from it by Rauf de Boun in 1310, and by the age of our MS. itself.] [Footnote 10: _Hanelok_ in Hearne, throughout, but undoubtedly _contra fidem_ MSS.]