NOTICE OF JOHN DE TREVISA. 153 



"de Worde, about 1495, the first book printed on paper of 

 ** English manufacture,"* 



A full table of these and other works of Trevisa is given at 

 the end. 



Bishop Tanner fixes his death at A.D. 1412,+ which, as he 

 was born in 1342, makes him 70 years old at the date of his 

 death. It is supposed that he died at Berkeley, but, as Mr. Hughes, 

 whose letter to Dibdin has been already quoted, says, " not one 

 " certain vestige of him remains here (Berkeley), nor is even his 

 "grave in the church known." When the parish church was restored, 

 not long ago, search was made for the grave ; and all that could be 

 discovered was, that near the altar there was a stone, which was 

 evidently set over an ecclesiastic, but the brass was gone, and no 

 date or name could be found upon it. 



In presenting this meagre summary of all that I can discover 

 on the subject, I will only add that, having failed to establish the 

 most important point in the history of our Cornish Worthy, I must 

 request that this may be accepted as the humble attempt of a 

 countryman to rescue his fame fram oblivion, whilst I shall con- 

 tinue to hope that some one under whose eye this paper may fall, 

 may obtain access to fresh materials for illustrating the life and 

 times of John de Trevisa. 



List of Original Writings and Translations of John de 



Trevisa. "^ 



1. — Original TFritings., 



De calore thermarum Bathoniensum. 



De utilitate translationum, dialogus inter patronum et clericum. 



lib. i. 

 Gesta Regis Arthuri. lib. i. 

 Britanni83 descriptio. lib. i. 

 Hibernige descriptio. lib. i. 

 De memorabilibus temporum. lib. i. 

 Genealogia Davidis Regis Scotise. 



« I am indebted to Mr. Edwin Netherton, of Truro, for a notice of » 

 copy of tbe Pohjchronicon, printed subsequently by Peter Treveris (1527), 

 ■which was lately offered for sale by Quaritch, the London bookseller, for £42. 



f Carew says " about 1410 " {ubi supra). FiUler says " about 1400." 



