1463-1464

Updated: January 23, 2026

All real knowledge of the period dwindled away until in Capgraves's Chronicle of England, written in prose in 1463-1464, hardly any thing of it is left. In history as in literature the English had forgotten their past, and had turned to foreign sources.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson