Kidderminster.
[The earliest edition is that printed by T. Berthelet, 4to., 1549. The
first two parts of this Chronicle, {495} and the beginning of the
third, as far as the seventeenth year after Christ, were composed by
Thomas Lanquet, a young man of twenty-four years of age. Owing to his
early death, Bishop Cooper finished the work; and his part, which is
the third, contains almost thrice as much as Lanquet's two parts, being
taken from Achilles Pyrminius. When it was finished, a surreptitious
edition appeared in 1559, under the title of Lanquet's _Chronicle_;
hereupon the bishop protested against "the vnhonest dealynge" of this
book, edited by Thomas Crowley, in the next edition, entitled Cooper's
_Chronicle_, "printed in the house late Thomas Berthelettes," 1560. The
running title to the first and second parts is, "Lanquet's Chronicle;"
and to the third, "The Epitome of Chronicles." The other editions are,
"London, 1554," 4to., and "London, 1565," 4to. We should think the
edition of 1560 rare: it was in the collections of Mr. Heber and Mr.
Herbert. In this work the following memorable passage occurs, under the
year 1542:--"One named Johannes Faustius fyrste founde the crafte of
printynge in the citee of Mens in Germanie."]
_"Our English Milo."_--Bishop Hall extols in his _Heaven upon Earth_ the
valour of a countryman in a Spanish bull-fight (see p. 335., collected ed.
_Works_, 1622). Of whom does he speak?