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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: Seeley Subjects: English literature Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: V ROBERT OF BRUNNE (From the Academy, Jan. 8, 1887) SIR FREDERICK MADDEN writes that 'it appears to us, from a long and attentive consideration' of the autobiographical passages in the Handlyng Synne and the Chronicle, ' that Robert Mannyng was born at Brunne, . . . was a Canon of the Gilbertine Order, and for fifteen years -- that is, from 1288 to 1303 -- professed in the Priory of Sem- pringham, . . . and that he afterwards removed to Brymwake in Kestevene, six miles from Sempringham, where he wrote the prologue to his first work.' And subsequent historians of literature have faithfully followed so distinguished an authority. Yet Sir Frederic's statement needs revision. It does not seem to have occurred to him to verify the existence of Brymwake. Was there ever such a place? And, if so, where ? Now that the Brym is identical with Brunne, and the Wake some defining addition is an obvious suggestion; what is more, it is the fact. So I am assured by one who was mentioned to me as the best antiquarian authority on the part of Lincolnshire concerned -- by the Bishop of Nottingham, whom I have the pleasure of now heartily thanking for the courtesy and kindness with which he hasanswered my inquiries. ' Your Brimwake, ' says Dr Trollope, ' is undoubtedly Bourn-wake, so called from its lord Hugh Wac and his successors in days of old, as the Wake Deeping Estate is still called Deeping-Wake or Wakes, although this has passed into other hands. . . . Th...

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