_Diodorus Siculus translated into English [by Skelton poet-laureat]. MS. C.C.C._—No. ccclvii. of Nasmith’s _Catal._ p. 362. For the following account of this MS. I am indebted to Mr. Thomas Wright:— “MS. Corp. Chr. Camb. No. 357. At the head of the first folio—‘Interpretatio Skeltoni poetæ Laureati,’ written in a different hand from the MS. (by Nasmith said to be by Archb. Parker himself) over something which has been erased, but which seems to have been ‘Prohemye of Poggius.’ At the end of this preface is written in the same hand as MS. ‘Thus endeth the prohemye of Poggius.’ fol. 2 verso. At fol. 3 begins ‘The prohemy of Diodorus thauctour.’ This ends at fol. 7 thus,— ¶ ‘Now we wyll enforce to begynne our processe historyall. quod Skelton. ¶ Here endeth the prohemy of all the hole processe.’ The words ‘quod Skelton’ are written in rather a different hand, and with different ink, but apparently contemporary. I think it not impossible that they may have been added by the original hand at another time. It is imperfect at the end: but on a leaf bound up with it is written in a much later hand (perhaps by Parker), ‘Hec charta de industria vacua relicta est, ut occasio daretur juveni in litteris exercitato aggrediendi translationem historiæ que hic diminuta est, ut sic humeri sui vires experiatur quid ferre valeant, quidve recusent, tum cognoscet quid hic translator prestiterit, fortassis non ita facile in hoc genere a multis superandus.’” Tanner (_Biblioth._ p. 676. ed. 1748) mentions the following two pieces as extant in his day among the MSS. of Lincoln Cathedral Library (see _Memoir_, pp. xxi, xxiii.)— _Methodos Skeltonidis laureati_, sc. _Præcepta quædam moralia Henrico principi, postea Henr._ viii, _missa_, Dat. apud Eltham A.D. MDI. Principium deest. _Carmen ad principem, quando insignitus erat ducis Ebor. titulo._ Pr. “Si quid habes, mea Musa.” MSS. OF PIECES ATTRIBUTED TO SKELTON. _Vox Populi, vox Dei. MS._ 2567 Cambridge Public Library. _MS. Harl._ 367. fol. 130 (see vol. ii. 400). _The Image of Ipocrysy. MS. Lansdown_ 794 (see vol. ii. 413). Other pieces might be mentioned. APPENDIX III. EXTRACTS FROM PIECES WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN, OR WHICH CONTAIN EXAMPLES OF, THE METRE CALLED SKELTONICAL. EXAMPLES OF THE METRE CALLED SKELTONICAL. _The Genealogye of Heresye. Compyled by Ponce Pantolabus. Imprynted at London In Pater noster rowe. At the signe of our ladye pytye_ [some copies, _our fadyr Pyte_] _By Johan Redman. Ad imprimendum solum_, 1542: another edition was printed by Robert Wyer: vide _Typograph. Antiq._ iii. 59, 182. ed. Dibdin (the size of them not mentioned). The author was John Huntingdon.