Lydgate, John, approximately 1370-1449 or 1450, poet and prior of Hatfield Regis

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Epithet: poet and prior of Hatfield Regis

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creatorOf Miscellany, including Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes. British Library
creatorOf Miscellany of verse and prose (the 'Winchester Anthology'): including Francesco Petrarca, Secretum; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees off Old Philosoffres; the Dicta philosophorum, translated by Anthony Woodville; excerpts from Edmund of Abing..., approximately 1487-1574 British Library
creatorOf John Lydgate, Poems; 15th cent., 2nd half. Middle English. Copy. Imperfect. The MS. contains a renowned collection of poems by John Lydgate (1371-1449), believed to be derived from a lost Shirley MS.: see D. Pearsall, John Lydgate (1371-1449): A ..., 15th century British Library
creatorOf PRECEDENT BOOK, etc.; 15th cent. Some Latin. Contains copies of royal letters, extracts from chronicles and state papers, etc., 1326 -temp. Edward IV, the latest dated item being art. 26, 1482. Also included are some later historical notes (artt. 1,..., 1369-1499 British Library
creatorOf The Commonplace Book of John Colyns; late 15th-early 16th cent. Middle English. Slightly imperfect. The MS. is composite and comprises two booklets (ff. 54-85, 86-133v) bound together with texts copied by John Colyns (d. before July 1541), citizen... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION OF TRACTS: includes items translated by John Shirley (d.1456); mid -late 15th cent. Origin: England. The reference to Henry VI on f. 72v suggests a date after 1461. English and some Latin. Imperfect at end (catchword f. 224v). For descri... British Library
creatorOf Composite Miscellany including John Lydgate's 'Testament', Scientific and Religious Tracts, Medical and Alchemical Recipes and Charms, and Printed Booklets; 13th-early 16th cent. Middle English and Latin. Partly imperfect. This composite volume in... British Library
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Romford, Essex
Chester, Cheshire
Lucca, Italy
Houghton St Giles, Norfolk
Worcestershire, England
Hertford, Hertfordshire
St Omer, Pas-de-Calais
Havering atte Bower, Essex
Boston, Lincolnshire
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Portersfee, Essex
Calais, France
London, England
Aldbourn, Wiltshire
Lynsted, Kent
Skirbeck, Lincolnshire
Mantes, France
Staincliff in Craven, West Riding of Yorkshire
Suffolk, England
Yorkshire, England
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland
Genoa, Italy
Spain, Europe
Dunstanburgh, Northumberland
King's Langley, Hertfordshire
Wallingford, Berkshire
Old Romney, Kent
Bristol, Gloucestershire
Cologne, Germany
Bamburgh, Northumberland
Kent, England
St Albans, Hertfordshire
Lincolnshire, England
Eltham, Kent
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Birth 1370

Death 1449

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