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The text is based on the 1865 EETS edition of Thynne’sAnimadversions. Two purely typographic features have beenadopted from the 1876 Chaucer Society re-edition of the same MS.Passages printed in [brackets] in 1865 have been changed to 1876’s(parentheses); conversely, words or letters supplied by the editor areshown in [brackets], reserving italics for expandedabbreviations. Other differences, and ways of marking them, areexplained at the end of the e-text.
Page numbers are shown in the left margin. Italicized numbers in theright margin are from the 1876 edition (main text only).
Chaucer.
ANIMADUERSIONS
uppon the Annotacions and corrections of some
imperfections of impressiones
of Chaucer’s workes (sett
downe before tyme and
nowe) reprinted in the
yere of our lorde
1598
Sett downe by
FRANCIS THYNNE.
“Sortee pur bien ou ne sortee rien.”
NOW NEWLY EDITED FROM THE MS. IN THE
BRIDGEWATER LIBRARY
BY
G. H. KINGSLEY, M.D., F.L.S.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY,
BY N. TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.
MDCCCLXV.
JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.
PREFACE.
Although only the grandson of thefirst of his name, the author of the following interesting specimen of16th-century criticism came of a family of great antiquity, of so greatan antiquity, indeed, as to preclude our tracing it back to its origin.This family was originally known as the “De Botfelds,” but in the 15thcentury one branch adopted the more humble name of “Thynne,” or “of theInne.” Why the latter name was first assumed has never beensatisfactorily explained. It can hardly be supposed that “John dela Inne de Botfelde,” as he signed himself, kept a veritable hostelryand sold ale and provender to the travellers between Ludlow andShrewsbury, and most probably the term Inn was used in the sense whichhas given us “Lincoln’s Inn,” “Gray’s Inn,” or “Furnivall’s Inn,” merelymeaning a place of residence of the higher class, though in this caseinverted, the Inn giving its name to its owner.
However obtained, the name has been borne by the most successfulbranch of the De Botfelds down to the present Marquess of Bath, who nowrepresents it. Much interesting matter connected with the family wascollected by a late descendant of the older branch, Beriah Botfeld, andpublished by him in his “Stemmata Botvilliana.”
The first “John of the Inn” marrie