Probably Eltham

Appendix I. to this Memoir.

See A deuoute trentale for old John Clarke, who died in 1506,vol. i. 168; Lamentatio urbis Norvicen., written in 1507, p. 174; andChorus de Dis, &c. in 1513, p. 190.

Books of the Treasury of the Exchequer, B. 4. 15, fol. 7,—Public RecordOffice. Qy. was this our author?

Appendix I. to this Memoir.

In an account of the visit of the Emperor Charles the Fifth toEngland in June 1522, among the lodgings which were occupied on thatoccasion at Greenwich we find mention of “Master Garnyshe house.” SeeRutland Papers, p. 82 (printed for the Camden Society). That a knightwas frequently called “Master,” I have shewn in Notes, vol. ii. 178.

John Peache,Wyllm Sandys,Robert Wotton,Edward Guldeferd,Crystoffyr Garneys.

To my Lorde cardynalls grace,Legate a Latere and chancelerof England.”

“With face so bold, and teeth so sharp,Of viper’s venome, why dost carp?Why are my verses by thee weigh’dIn a false scale? may truth be said?Whilst thou to get the more esteemA learned Poet fain wouldst seem,Skelton, thou art, let all men know it,Neither learned, nor a Poet.”

See vol. ii. 83, where this Lenuoy (which will be moreparticularly noticed presently) is appended to the poem Howe the doutyDuke of Albany, &c.

Animadversions vppon the annotacions and correctōns of someimperfectōns of impressōnes of Chaucers Workes, &c. p. 13,—in Todd’sIllust. of Gower and Chaucer.

In the Church-Wardens Accompts of St. Margaret’s, Westminster(Nichols’s Illust. of Manners and Expences, &c. 4to. p. 9), we findthis entry;

“Satire should, like a polish’d razor, keen,Wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen:Thine is an oyster-knife that hacks and hews,” &c.

See Appendix III. to this Memoir, and Poems attributed toSkelton, vol. ii. 385.

“In hevyn blyse ye xalle wyn to beAmonge the blyssyd company omnium supernorumTher as is alle merth joye and gleeInter agmina angelorumIn blyse to abyde.”

“Chaucer’s worst ribaldry is learn’d by rote,And beastly Skelton Heads of Houses quote”—