C

THE

Sistory of Chinaliy

or

Knighthood and its times.

CHARLES MILLS, Esq

lecher of the History of the Crusadis

IN TWO VOLUMES,

Mol:11.

MDCCCXXY.

BIBLIOTHECA

REGIA

MONACENSIS.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAP. I.

STATE OF CHIVALRY IN ENGLAND DURING THE REIGN OF
EDWARD THE THIRD.

Tournaments...The Round Table...Order of the Gar-
ter... Courtesy of Edward... Prevalence of chivalric
taste among all classes... English archers... The Black
Prince...Story of the king's chivalry...England re-
garded as the seat of honour...Instance of this...
Chivalric heroes in this reign... The gestes and
prowesses of Sir Walter Manny... Chivalric vow of
Sir Walter....He fights for the love of his lady...His
rescue of two brother knights...Instance of his joy-
ous adventurousness... His gallantry before Aube-
roche... His filial piety...Story of chivalric manners...
The gentle disposition of Manny...His importance at
Edward's court... His remarkable sagacity...His liber-
ality... His death in 1372...Buried in the Charter-
House...Heroism of Sir James Audley...His gene-
rosity...Memoir of Sir John Chandos... His gallantry
to ladies...Amusing instance of the pride of knight-

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hood... The importance of his counsel at Poictiers...

His exploits in Brittany... And in Spain... Is made a

knight banneret...Quits the Black Prince...But re-

turns...The remarkable generousness of his conduct

to Lord Pembroke...The last circumstance of his

life...General grief at his death.................

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CHAP. II.

PROGRESS OF CHIVALRY IN GREAT BRITAIN,

FROM THE REIGN OF RICHARD II. TO THAT OF HENRY VIII.

Complaints of the unchivalric state of Richard's court

...Influence of chivalry on the national character...

Scottish chivalry ... Chivalric kindness of Robert

Bruce...Mutual chivalry between the Scotch and

English courts... French knights' opinions of Scot.

tish chivalry...Courtesies between English and Scot-

tish knights...Chivalric battle of Otterbourn... Hot-

spur and the Douglas... A cavaleresque story...Reign

of Henry IV...Chivalric parley between him and

the Duke of Orleans...Henry's unchivalric conduct

at Shrewsbury...Henry V....Knights of the Bath...

Henry's love of chivalric books... His chivalric bear-

ing...Commencement of the decline of chivalry...

The civil wars injured chivalry...Caxton's lament-

ation...He exaggerates the evil...Many gallant Eng-

lish knights...Character of Henry VIII. with refer-

ence to chivalry... Tournaments in his reign...Field

of the cloth of gold...Introduction of Italian literature

favoured romance... Popularity of chivalric literature

...English knights continued to break lances for

ladies' love...State of Scottish chivalry at this period.

...James IV... Chivalric circumstances at Flodden

Field.......

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