[Footnote 4: Dean Milles has a delightful account of the reception accorded to Rowley in the Chatterton household. Neither mother nor sister would appear to have understood a line of the poems, but Mary Chatterton (afterwards Mrs. Newton) remembered she had been particularly wearied with a 'Battle of Hastings' of which her brother would continually and enthusiastically recite portions.] [Footnote 5: Wilson believed that Chatterton never sent the _Ryse_, &c., at all (see page 173 of his _Chatterton: A Biographical Study_), but this is disposed of by the fact that the _Ryse of Peyncteyning_ is the only piece of Chatterton's which contains _Saxon_ words.] [Footnote 6: March 28th, 1769.] [Footnote 7: _An account of Master William Canynge written by Thos. Rowlie Priest in_ 1460. Skeat, Vol. III, p. 219; W. Southey's edition, Vol. III, p. 75. See especially the last paragraph.] [Footnote 8: See _Letters of Horace Walpole_, edited by Mrs. Paget Toynbee (Clarendon Press), Vol. XIV, pp. 210, 229; Vol. XV, p. 123.] [Footnote 9: But attorneys are seldom 'in regrate' with the friends of Poetry.] [Footnote 10: Masson's reconstruction of the scene between Chatterton and the editor of the _Freeholder's Magazine_ is very convincing (see his _Chatterton: a Biography_, p. 160).] [Footnote 11: Almost everything that we know of Chatterton in London was ascertained by Sir H. Croft and printed in his _Love and Madness_ (see Bibliography).] II. THE VALUE OF ROWLEY'S POEMS--PHILOLOGICAL AND LITERARY