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The following is the only specimen that I have seen of The Ordinal, a poem written, by Thomas Norton, a native of Bristol, in the reign of King Edward IV.

The poem on Hawking, Hunting, and Armoury, written by Julian Barnes in the reign of the same monarch, (about 1481,) begins thus:

The only extract that I have met with from William of Naffyngton’s Treatise on the Trinitie, translated from John of Waldenby, about the year 1480, runs thus:

I cannot adhere to the method that I have in general observed, by quoting the first lines of Rh