Chapter XII: Appendix: A

I.

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_List of chap-book romances and tales in order of reference._

(1) Bevis of Southampton.—First English edition, Wynkyn de Worde (a fragment, n.d.)

Chap-book: _Sir Bevis of Southampton_, London, n.d.

(2) Guy of Warwick.—First English edition, W. Copland (1548-68).

Chap-book: _Guy, Earl of Warwick_, n.d. (_c._ 1750).

(3) The Seven Champions of Christendom.—By Richard Johnson (1596).

Chap-book: London, n.d. (_c._ 1750).

(4) Don Bellianis of Greece.—Earliest edition, 1598. Black Letter.

Chap-book: The History of Don Bellianis of Greece, London, n.d.
(_c._ 1780).

(5) The Famous History of Montelyon. By Emanuel Forde (1633).

Chap-book: The History of Montellion, London, n.d.

(6) Parismus, the Renowned Prince of Bohemia.—1598. Black Letter.

Chap-book: London, n.d. (_c._ 1760).

(7) The History of Fortunatus.—Stationers’ Register (1615).

Chap-book: London, n.d. (eighteenth century).

(8) Valentine and Orson.—French edition, 1489. Two editions by W. Copland.

(9) Friar Bacon.—Greene’s play, mentioned in Henslowe’s Diary under the years 1591-2 was based on an earlier tract. Eighteenth century chap-book: London, n.d.

(10) The Historyes of Troye.—Caxton, 1477. Folio Black Letter.

Chap-book: _Hector, Prince of Troy_, London, n.d.

(11) Patient Grissel.—Chap-book: The History of the Marquis of Salus and Patient Grissel, London, n.d. (_c._ 1750).

(12) The King and the Cobbler.—Chap-book: London, n.d. (King Henry VIII).

(13) The Valiant London Prentice.—“Written for the Encouragement of Youth” by John Shurley. For J. Back, B.L.

Chap-book: “Printed for the Hon. Company of Walking
Stationers”, London, n.d. (after 1780).

(14) _Tom Long the Carrier_ (with woodcut of Tudor pedlar), London, n.d.

(15) “The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus”, a mediæval tale in Caxton’s _Golden Legende_.

(16) _The History of Laurence Lazy_, London, n.d. (eighteenth century).

(17) _Joseph and his Brethren._—Chap-book: London, n.d.

(18) The Glastonbury Thorn (Joseph of Arimathea).—Wynkyn de Worde, n.d.

Chap-book: The History of Joseph of Arimathea, n.d. (_c._ 1740).

(19) _The Wandering Jew_, etc.

Chap-book (dialogue), London, n.d.

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Another chap-book of this sort is The History of Dr. John Faustus (Aldermary Churchyard, n.d.).

“A Ballad of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, the Great Congerer”, was entered in the Stationers’ Register in 1588; and Marlowe produced his play in 1589.

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The humour of “topsy-turveydom” dates back to the fourteenth century _Land of Cockayne_, and survives to-day in nursery-rhymes and “drolls”. “The Wise Men of Gotham” was still popular in the eighteenth century. This famous nonsense-book was written by Andrew Boorde, and a Bodleian copy is dated 1630.

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(a) _Memoirs of the late John Kippen_, “to which is added an Elegy on Peter Duthie, who was for upwards of eighty years a Flying Stationer”.

(b) Mr. R. H. Cunningham, in a note prefixed to his _Amusing Prose Chap-books_ (1889) gives an account of a book-pedlar, Dougal Graham, who hawked books among Prince Charlie’s soldiers in the ’45, and afterwards became an author and printer of chap-books.

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_The Adventures of Philip Quarll_, by Edward Dorrington (1727) was probably inspired by _Robinson Crusoe_. It was afterwards used to illustrate revolutionary theory. See Chapter V.

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(a)“Chevy Chase”, praised by Sir Philip Sidney for its “trumpet note”, was included in Dryden’s Miscellanies, 1702, in the Collection of 1723 and in Percy’s Reliques, 1765.

(b) The ballad of “The Two Children in the Wood” was printed in 1597 as “The Norfolk Gentleman, his Will and Testament”, etc. There is a prose chap-book of 1700, “to which is annex’d the Old Song upon the same”.

The ballad is included in the collection of 1723.

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“The Noble Acts of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table; with the Valiant Atchievements of Sir Launcelot du Lake. To the Tune of, _Flying Fame_”.

The first stanza (of which Falstaff quotes the first line in Henry IV,