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Title: Henry the Sixth
A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes

Author: John Blacman

Translator: M.R. James

Release Date: August 19, 2009 [EBook #29689]

Language: English

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HENRY THE SIXTH

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

C. F. CLAY, MANAGER

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Henry the Sixth

A REPRINT OF
JOHN BLACMAN'S MEMOIR
WITH TRANSLATION
AND NOTES

BY

M. R. JAMES, LITT. D., F.B.A., F.S.A.

PROVOST OF ETON
FORMERLY PROVOST OF KING'S COLLEGE

CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1919

CONTENTS

PREFACE PAGE vii

TEXT 1

TRANSLATION 23

NOTES 45

SPECIAL NOTES

I. A PRAYER TO HENRY VI IN ENGLISH VERSE 50

II. ON THE MANUSCRIPT MIRACLES OF HENRY VI. 51

III. ON JOHN BLACMAN'S BOOKS 55

PREFACE

The tract on the Personality of King Henry VI (as I may perhaps be
allowed to call it), which is here reprinted, has hitherto been almost
inaccessible to ordinary students. It is not known to exist at all in
manuscript. We depend ultimately for our knowledge of it upon a printed
edition issued by Robert Coplande of London, of which the date is said
to be 1510. Of this there may be two copies in existence. This text was
reprinted by Thomas Hearne in 1732, in his edi