“_Diodorus Siculus_ of my translacyon Out of fresshe Latine into owre Englysshe playne, Recountyng commoditis of many a straunge nacyon; Who redyth it ones wolde rede it agayne; Sex volumis engrosid together it doth containe.” vol. i. 420. It is preserved in MS. at Cambridge: see Appendix II. to this Memoir. [30] Sig. A ii. [31] For more about poet laureat, both in the ancient and modern acceptation, see Selden’s _Titles of Honor_, p. 405. ed. 1631; the Abbé du Resnel’s _Recherches sur les Poètes Couronnez_,—_Hist. de l’Acad. des Inscript. (Mém. de Littérature)_, x. 507; Warton’s _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 129. ed. 4to; Malone’s _Life of Dryden (Prose Works)_, p. 78; Devon’s Introd. to _Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham_, p. xxix., and his Introd. to _Issues of the Exchequer_, &c., p. xiii.—Churchyard in his verses prefixed to Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s _Workes,_ 1568, says, “Nay, Skelton wore the lawrell wreath, And past in schoels, ye knoe.” see Appendix I. to this Memoir. [32] Vol. i. 128. [33] _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 130 (note), ed. 4to.—The second entry was printed in 1736 by the Abbé du Resnel (who received it from Carte the historian) in _Recherches sur les Poètes Couronnez_,—_Hist. de l’Acad. des Inscript. (Mém. de Littérature)_, x. 522. Both entries were given in 1767 by Farmer in the second edition of his _Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare_, p. 50.—The Rev. Joseph Romilly, registrar of the University of Cambridge, has obligingly ascertained for me their correctness. [34] Vol. i. 124. [35] Vol. i. 197. [36] _Prologe_ to _Egloges_, sig. A 1. ed. 1570. [37] _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 132 (note), ed. 4to, where Warton gives the subscription of the former as the title of the latter poem: his mistake was occasioned by the reprint of Skelton’s _Works_, 1736. See the present edition, vol. i. 190, 191. [38] Du Resnel expressly says that he was made acquainted with the Cambridge entry by “M. Carte, autrement M. Phillips.” _Recherches sur les Poètes Couronnez_,—_Hist. de l’Acad. des Inscript. (Mém. de Littérature)_, x. 522.—Carte assumed the name of Phillips when he took refuge in France. [39] A gentleman resident at Louvaine obligingly examined for me the registers of that university, but could find in them no mention of Skelton. [40] The original has “Cum:” but the initial letters of the lines were intended to form a distich; see the conclusion of the poem. [41] Here again the original has “Cum.” [42] From the 4to volume entitled _Opusculum Roberti Whittintoni in florentissima Oxoniensi achademia Laureati_. At the end, _Expliciūt Roberti Whitintoni Oxonie Protouatis Epygrammata: una cū quibusdā Panegyricis. Impressa Lōdini per me wynandū de worde. Anno post virgineū partū._ M. ccccc xix. _decimo vero kalēdas Maii_. [43] Henry Bradshaw’s _Lyfe of Saynt Werburghe_, l. ii. c. 24. printed by Pynson 1521, 4to.