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Of the lyrics found in the important MS. Harleian 2253, "Alysoun" has the same rime scheme as a poem by Gaucelm Faidit: it opens with the conventional appeal to spring; the poet's feelings deprive him of sleep.
Therefore it would seem that really Caxton's family was "of great repute of old, and genteel-like," as an old manuscript says.* *Harleian MS., 5910. Caxton's master died before he had finished his apprenticeship, so he had to find a new master, and very soon he left England and went to Bruges. There he remained for thirty-five years.
This codex is described by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson as French, of the time of Charlemagne, and we may add that its position in the Harleian may be compared to that of the Durham or Lindisfarne Gospels in the Cottonian library. The manuscripts numbered 2820 and 2821 are further examples of partially purple-stained vellum, in imitation of earlier work.
What is remarkable, the parliament thought that the matter deserved their attention. * Whitlocke, p. 624. Harleian Miscellany, vol. vi. p. 399. One Dorcas Barberry made oath before a magistrate, that she had been dead two days, and that Naylor had brought her to life. * Harleian Miscellany, vol. vi. p. 399 Thurloe, vol v. p. 708.
Wales and Ireland are also well represented. But like the Cottonian, the Harleian library spread its borders far beyond the limits of British history.
In the Harleian Tracts there is a short, but rather curious account preserved of the sensation produced at the Abbey on the 5th of November, 1688, after the prince of Orange had entered the bay with his fleet, on their passage to Brixham, where he landed: "The prince commanded captain M to search the lady Cary's house, at Torr Abbey, for arms and horses.
In point of mere size, the Royal library ranks third among the four great collections acquired by the British Museum at the time of its foundation the Harleian numbering 7639 MSS.; the Sloane, 4001; the Royal, 1950; the Cottonian, 900. Of the three others we have ample details; their hoards have been thoroughly ransacked, and there are scarcely any surprises for the student.
The disorders of Ireland obliged James to keep up some forces there, and put him to great expense. * Journ. 1st March, 1623. Stowe. See also Sir Walter Raleigh of the Prerogatives of Parliament, and Johnston Hist. lib. xviii. * Stowe. In the Harleian Miscellany, vol. iv, p. 255. v Rymer, tom. xvi. p. 717.
The idea that secret rites were necessary at the planting of cacao to counteract their ignorance of its requirements was long current also among the superstitious Spaniards, who similarly accounted for the early failures of the English, as witness the following amusing extract from a contribution to the Harleian Miscellany in 1690: "Cocoa is now a commodity to be regarded in our colonies, though at first it was the principal invitation to the peopling of Jamaica, for those walks the Spaniards left behind them there, when we conquered it, produced such prodigious profit with so little trouble that Sir Thomas Modiford and several others set up their rests to grow wealthy therein, and fell to planting much of it, which the Spanish slaves had always foretold would never thrive, and so it happened: for, though it promised fair and throve finely for five or six years, yet still at that age, when so long hopes and cares had been wasted upon it, withered and died away by some unaccountable cause, though they imputed it to a black worm or grub, which they found clinging to its roots.... And did it not almost constantly die before, it would come into perfection in fifteen years' growth and last till thirty, thereby becoming the most profitable tree in the world, there having been £200 sterling made in one year of an acre of it.
"Vol. 295 among the Harleian MSS. contains little remarkable except some letters from Henry VIII's amb'r. in Spain, in 1518, of which, you may see an abstract in the printed catalogue. "In Dr. Hayne's 'Collection of State Papers in the Hatfield History, p. 56, is a long letter of the lord of the council of Henry VIII., in 1546, to his amb'r. with the Emperor." Extract from a letter of Dr.
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