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Lybelle of Englysshe Polycye in loc. cit., pp. 179-81. With deference, I think that Mr Malden in his introduction to the Cely Papers, App. The names simply refer to the seasons in which there were fairs in most of the important centres, though doubtless in one place the winter and in another the spring, summer, or autumn fair was the more important.
Although, in the present version, we have strictly adhered to the sense of that published by Eden 236 years ago, it has appeared more useful, and more consonant to the plan of our work, to render the antiquated language into modern English: Yet, as on similar occasions, we leave the Preface of the Author exactly in the language and orthography of Eden, the original translator. App. pp. 547 612.
Gairdner, /Hist. of the Eng. Church in the XVIIth Cent./, 177-8. /English Statutes/, 34 and 35 Hen. VIII., c. 50. Merriman, /Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell/, 2 vols., 1902. Tytler, /England under Edward VI. and Mary/, 2 vols., 1839. Gasquet-Bishop, /Edw. Cf. Dodd-Tierney, /Church Hist. of England/, ii., app. iii. Id., app. iv. Lee, /Edw. VI., Supreme Head/, 39.
It is, however, written in a spirit of controversial exaggeration which reduces its historical value to small proportions. There is a short description of the municipal organization of Holland in an article by J. F. Jameson in the Magazine of American History, VIII., 315-330. The charter of the Dutch West India Company is in E. B. O'Callaghan, History of New Netherland, I., App.
Songs and rude poetry have been, in all savage countries, the memorials of public transactions, e.g. the runes of the Goths, the bards of the Britons and Celts, the scalds of Scandinavia, &c. Tuisconem. The god from whom Tuesday takes its name, as Wednesday from Woden, Thursday from Thor, &c., cf. Sharon Turner's His. of Ang. Sax. app. to book 2. chap. 3. Tuistonem, Tristonem, &c.
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