Polydore Vergil's English History: Comprising the Period Prior to the Norman Conquest

Polydore Vergil

Translated by Sir Henry Ellis

14 chapters · about 8 h

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The opening

NUM. I.

Henrici Octavi Regis Anglia ad Leonem X. Commendatitia, pro Polydoro Vergilio Urbinate redeunte in Patriam parentes invisuro.

Ann. 1513.

Beatissime Pater, post humillimam commendationem, et devotissima pedum oscula beatorum. Fuit in hoc nostro regno, plurimos jam annos, venerabilis vir Dominus Polydorus Vergillius, Urbinas, Wellen. Ecclesise archidiaconus, et vestrae Apostolicae Cameras in hoc regno Vice-collector, quern eximia eruditione, turn vero modestia, circumspectione, et gravitate preditus, ut quamquam quibusdam de causis hand mediocriter optaremus, Collectorem, sicuti non multos ante annos moris fuit, hie apud nos presentem habere; ipse tamen licet vicarius et substitutus huic nostro desiderio maxima ex parte satisfecerit, nee minori ornamento utilitatique tarn Domino Collector! quam ipsi officio Collectoriae fuerit.

Quare et clarae memoriae olim nostro patri, et nobis, percarus semper extitit. Is vero nuper nobis significavit, post annos xij. quos in hoc nostro Regno, et quidem uti nos testes sumus, haud ex qua sua cum laude egit patriam, parentes, ac res suas, nostra cum venia et commeatu revisere; atque inde ad vestram Beatitudinem se conferre, ejusque sanctissimos pedes deosculari se cupere. Cujus justissimo voto nos ita annuimus, ut sine nostra commendatione discedere noluerimus. Ideoque vestram sanctitatem impense rogamus, ut dictum D. Polydorum ad se venientem, turn nostra turn suarum virtutum gratia, benigne admittere, sibique praecipue commendatum habere dignetur, quod erit nobis plurimum gratum. Ex Regia nostra apud Westmonasterium, diexxvj. Februarii, M.D.XII.

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The words
Sir Henry Ellis's English translation, copied word for word.
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  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 3 places
  • The Camden Society's series number
  • The Camden Society's council list for 1846 (21 blocks)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 10 places
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 6 places
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