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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Henry the Sixth, by John Blacman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HENRY THE SIXTH *** Produced by Paul Murray, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) HENRY THE SIXTH CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, MANAGER LONDON: FETTER LANE, E.C. 4 NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS BOMBAY } CALCUTTA } MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. MADRAS } TORONTO: J. M. DENT AND SONS, LTD. TOKYO: MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 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
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