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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
I Have already intimated, in my Dissertation upon the Works of Robert Wace, that the French are indebted to England, and its monarchs, for the most eminent poets that we know of in their language. It will be the purpose of that which I have now the honour to present you with, to expatiate more at large upon this fact; not that I undertake to decide upon a question oftentimes discussed, but never yet resolved, concerning the original founders of the French Parnassus. I shall not dispute with the natives of Picardy the honour which has been conferred on them by Monsieur Fontenelle [a]; nor attempt to deprive the Troubadours of the palm which the Abbé Millet has adjudged to them [b]; and, though myself a Norman, I shall not unite with Monsieur de la Ravalliere in demonstrating, that my countrymen have been the fathers of French poetry [c].
page 297 note [a] Fontenelle, Hist. du Theatre François, vol. III. p. 11, edit. of 1758.
page 297 note [b] Millet, Hist. des Troubadours.
page 298 note [c] Poesies du Roi de. Navarre, vol I. pp. 166, 196, 261, & 262.
page 299 note [d] Acta ord. St Bened. vol. III. p. 379.
page 299 note [e] Polychron. Ranulph. Higden, lib. III.
page 299 note [f] Gul. Pictav. Hist. apud. Duchesne, p, 193.
page 300 note [g] Domesday book, Gloucest.
page 300 note [h] Gesta Dei per Francos, p. 180.
page 300 note [i] Will. Malmsb. Hist. lib. i.
page 300 note [k] Wace, Roman de Guilliaume Longue espèe.
page 300 note [l] Ord. Vital. Hist. p. 598.
page 300 note [m] L'Abbé, Nova Bibl. vol. II. p. 296.
page 301 note [n] Order. Vital. Hist. p. 180.
page 302 note [o] Wace, Roman de Guill. I.
page 302 note [p] Order. Vital. Hist. p. 833.
page 302 note [q] Kennet's Parochial Antiquities and Gloslary, v. Capeltanus.
page 304 note [r] Bibl. Cotton. Vitell. A. XII.
page 304 note [s] Ibid.
page 304 note [t] Neustria pia, passim. Geneal. Hist. of the Kings of England, passim; Angle-Norman Antiq. passim.
page 305 note [1] Hist. Litter, de ja France, vol. IX. pp. 173, 190.
page 305 note [2] Martene Thesaur. Anecd. vol. I. p. 624.
page 305 note [3] Hist. Litter, de la France, vol. X. p. LXXI.
page 306 note [u] Mon. Angl. vol. II. p. 645. Camden's Britannia, by Gough, vol. II. p. 229.
page 306 note [v] Thoroton's Notttingham, p. 370.
page 306 note [x] Camden, loco citato.
page 306 note [y] Rot. Fin. 6 Hen III.
page 307 note [z] Canterbury Tales, vol. IV. p. 62.
page 308 note [a] Gaimar, at the end of his Anglo-Saxon History, Bibl, Reg. 13 A. XXI.
page 308 note [b] Dugdale's Baronage, vol: I; p. 590.
page 308 note [c] Bilhop Lloyd's Letter on Geoffrey of Mcmmoutb, p. 72.
page 309 note [d] Tanner, Notitia Monast. p. 557.
page 310 note [e] Walhingburgh, in Lincolnshire.
page 313 note [f] i. e. Tried by fire as to the alloy, and weighed. T.
page 316 note [g] Chron. Norm, apud Duchesne, p. 998.
page 316 note [h] Rog. Hoveden Annal. ad an. 1170. Edit. Savile.
page 316 note [i] Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. II. p. 235.
page 319 note [k] Warton, loco citato.
page 320 note [l] Lelandi Collect. vol. I. p. 287. 2d Edit.
page 320 note [m] Mem. de l'Acad. des Inscript. vol. II. p. 729.
page 320 note [n] Warton's History of English Poetry.