TABLE III.-FROM NORMAN CONQUEST TO CHAUCER-Continued

Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, "Topographia Hiberniæ."

John, 1199-1216.

Loss of Normandy, 1204.

Great Charter, 1215.

Henry III., 1216-1272.

Friars land in England, 1221.

Wace.

"Brut d'Engleterre," 1155.

Benoit de St. Maure.
"Roman de Troie."

Walter Map, (?)-1210.
"Golias Episcopus."
"Launcelot du Lac."
66 'Queste de St. Graal."
"Mort Artus."

Roger Bacon, 1214-1292 (?).

The Barons' War, battles of Lewes and "Opus Majus,” 1268.

Robert Manning.

Handlyng Synne," 1303.
"Cursor Mundi," 1320-1325.

Michael of Northgate.
"Ayenbite of Inwyt," 1340.

"Lines to Adam Scrivener," 1380-1383.

"The Parlement of Foules,"
1382.

"The House of Fame" (un-
finished), 1383-1384, and "Le-
gende of Good Women
(unfinished), 1384-1385.
The Canterbury Tales, 1385 (?).
(Some of these tales were
written earlier as separate
poems and afterward in-
cluded in the series.)

Clerk of the King's works, 1389.
New pension granted by Rich-
ard II., 1394.

Additional pension granted by
Henry IV., 1399.

"Former Age, "Fortune," "Truth, " and other poems,

1382-1399.

Chaucer's death, 1400.

TABLE VI.-REVIVAL OF LEARNING. 1400-1540

Henry IV., 1399-1413.

Battle of Homildon Hill, 1402.
Revolt of the Percies, 1403.
French descents on England, 1404.
Revolt of Archbishop Scrope, 1405.
Henry V., 1413-1422.
Battle of Agincourt, 1415.

Henry VI., 1422-died 1471.
Siege of Orléans, 1429.

Death of Joan of Arc, 1431.
Cade's insurrection, 1450.

First battle of St. Albans, begins Wars
of the Roses, 1455.

Edward IV., 1461-died 1483.
Battle of Towton, 1461.

Caxton settles in England, cir. 1471-
1477.

Edward V., 1483-died 1483.

Battle of Bosworth, 1485.

Henry VII., 1485-1509.

Grocyn teaches Greek at Oxford, 1491.
Linacre at Oxford, cir. 1491.
Erasmus in England, 1497.
Henry VIII., 1509-1547.