4 NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[nt S.No f., Jan. 5, 756. 
compiled and printed at St. Alban’s in 1483; 
which consists of a reprint (or nearly so) of Cax- 
ton’s edition, with the addition of a General His- 
tory from Adam, prefixed as a first part, and 
many interpolated chapters of emperors and popes, 
taken out of Martinus Polonus and other writers. 
This is the work so often confounded with Cax- 
ton’s edition, particularly by Pits (p. 670.), who is 
followed by Nicolson (p.56.). ‘Phe St. Alban’s 
compilation was re-issued from the press of W. de 
Worde in 1497, with some slight alterations, and 
was succeeded by the subsequent editions of 1502, 
1515, 1520, 1528, as also by those of Julian Notary, 
1504, 1515, and Pynson, 1510. 
he eclophon to the edition of 1497 reads thus: 
“ Here endyth this present Cronycle of Englonde, 
with the Frute of Tymes, compiled in a booke and 
also enprynted by one somtyme scole mayster of 
Saynt Albons, on whoos soule God have mercy.” 
The name of this “schoolmaster” is nowhere 
mentioned, but it is not a little remarkable, that 
in the library of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn, 
is preserved a manuscript English Chronicle, com- 
piled and written in 1448 by Rycharde Fox of 
St. Alban’s, which commences with the reign of 
Alfred (a.p. 872), and as far down as the end of 
the reign of Edward I. is borrowed from the older 
historians; but from this date onwards to the 
siege of Rouen (6 Hen. V.), where it ends, it is 
identical with the English Brute. This mann- 
script has, however, some additions of value, not 
in the usual copies, namely, the history of the 
eighteenth and nineteenth years of the reign of 
Richard IL. ; an account of’ the deposition of Ri- 
chard, taken from the Parliament Roll, 1 Hen. VIL.; 
and a curious narrative of the parliament held at 
Bury St. Edmund's, and the death of Humphrey, 
Duke of Gloucester, in 1446. Whether this Fox 
(who is not mentioned by the bibliographers) bore 
any relation to the “ schoolmaster,” or was himself 
the man, future research may perhaps discover. 
Having pursued the history of this Chronicle so 
far, I shall only mention in conclusion, first, that 
it must not be confounded with the English Poly- 
chronicon, printed by Caxton in 1482; and se- 
condly, that very abridged copies of it sometimes 
oceur, as in MS. Harl. 63., and in a MS. at 
Holkham, No. 669., intitled “The Newe Cro- 
niclys, compendyusly idrawe of the gestys of 
Kynges of Ynglond.” 
It may appear somewhat surprising, that among 
all the reprints of our old English writers, this 
English Prose Chronicle, once so popular, should 
not have been included; not, indeed, to be taken 
from the modernised and incomplete edition of 
Caxton, but from a selection of the best. manu- 
scripts. It would be a volume well worthy the 
attention of one of our wealthy bibliographical 
clubs. EF, Mappen, 
British Museum. 
THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, 
Although the following letter, addressed to my- 
self, may not communicate to many of your readers 
any information beyond that which they already 
possess, still after the papers which have lately 
appeared in “ N. & Q.,” whatever evidence con- 
nects Sir Walter Scott yet more closely with the 
works that bear his name, and confirms his claim 
to them, will not be uninteresting. The work re- 
ferred to, entitled Scottish Pasquils (Edin., 1827), 
may be known to few persons, unless they may 
possibly have been thought worthy of republica- 
tion. It is comprised in two volumes, and the 
impression was limited to sixty copies. The editor 
observes : 
“The way in which the greater proportion of these 
have already been disposed of must necessarily confine the 
collection to the cabinets of the curious. To any other 
recommendation it may have, that of rarity falls to be 
added.” — Preface, p. xiii. 
In November, 1828, Sir Walter Scott writes : 
“Tam about to print an old blackguard Scotch lam- 
poon, of which I will send youacopy. It has reference 
to the tragical event from which I took the story of the 
Bride of Lammermoor.” 
In the following month Sir Walter Scott wrote 
as follows : 
“ My dear Sir, 
“T have been prevented from printing my lampoon on 
the Stair family, in which the story of the Bride of Lam- 
mermoor is hinted, by finding it, though from an inferior 
copy to mine, printed in the enclosed collection of Scottish 
libels, of which Mr. Maidment, an amateur and Banna- 
tynian, has published a half-private edition. I beg your 
acceptance of a copy, as from their tenor they will soon 
be introuvable, and are never like to be reprinted. You 
will shortly have the private history of the Bride of 
Lammer, and the other Waverley Novels, in an illustrated 
edition, which design should have been a posthumous 
publication, but is now to appear inter vivos. 
“T send you a project entertained here, which seems to 
promise much. The quantity of what may be considered 
as causes céiébres in Scotland is great, and affords ground 
for a curious chapter on the wide history of human 
nature. The editor is painstaking and capable, and should 
you find any one willing to subscribe, they will get a very 
curious book, of which the impression will be much 
limited.* Ihave been dunning the printer daily for the 
dedication and list to the murder of the Schaws; the red 
lettering has caused some delay. 
* This work was published by the Bannatyne Club, 
1829-30, entitled Trials, and other Proceedings, in Matters 
Criminal, before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland ; 
selected from the Records of that Court, and from Original 
MSS. preserved in the General Register House, Edinburgh. 
By Robert Pitcairn, Writer to His Majesty’s Signet, 
FS.A. It was reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly Review, 
vol. xliv. p. 438. : 
+ Sir Walter Scott was now printing his Presentation 
Book to the Roxburghe Club, entitled, Proceedings in the 
Court Martial held upon John, Master of Sinclair, Capt. 
Lieut. in Preston’s Regiment, for the Murder of Ensign 
Schaw, of the same Regiment, and Captain Schaw, of the 
Royals, Oct. 17,1708, with Correspondence respecting that 
Transaction. 
