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HARDYNG

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 948 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARDING, See also:JOHN (1378–1465), See also:English chronicler, was See also:born in the See also:north, and as a boy entered the service of See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Percy (Hotspur), with whom he was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Shrewsbury (1403). He then passed into the service of Sir See also:Robert See also:Umfraville, under whom he was See also:constable of See also:Warkworth See also:Castle, and served in the See also:campaign of See also:Agincourt in 1415 and in the See also:sea-fight before See also:Harfleur in 1416. In 1424 he was on a See also:diplomatic See also:mission at See also:Rome, where at the instance of See also:Cardinal See also:Beaufort he consulted the See also:chronicle of See also:Trogus Pompeius. Umfraville, who died in 1436, had made Hardyng constable of Kyme in See also:Lincolnshire, where he probably lived till his See also:death about 1465. Hardyng was a See also:man of antiquarian knowledge, and under Henry V. was employed to investigate the feudal relations of See also:Scotland to the English See also:crown. For this purpose he visited Scotland, at much expense and hardship. For his services he says that Henry V. promised him the See also:manor of Geddington in See also:Northamptonshire. Many years after, in 1439, he had a See also:grant of Do a See also:year for similar services. In 1457 there is a See also:record of the delivery of documents See also:relating to Scotland by Hardyng to the See also:earl of Shrewsbury, and his See also:reward by a further See also:pension of £zo. It is clear that Hardyng was well acquainted with Scotland, and See also:James I. is said to have offered him a bribe to surrender his papers. But the documents, which are still preserved in the Record See also:Office, have been shown to be forgeries, and were probably manufactured by Hardyng himself. Hardyng spent many years on the See also:composition of a rhyming chronicle of See also:England.

His services under the Percies and Umfravilles gave him opportunity to obtain much See also:

information of value for 15th See also:century See also:history. As literature the chronicle has no merit. It was written and rewritten to suit his various patrons. The See also:original edition ending in 1436 had a Lancastrian See also:bias and was dedicated to Henry VI. Afterwards he prepared a version for See also:Richard, See also:duke of See also:York (d. 146.o), and the chronicle in its final See also:form was presented to See also:Edward IV. after his See also:marriage to See also:Elizabeth Woodville in 1464. The version of 1436 is preserved in See also:Lansdowne MS. 204, and the See also:beat of the later versions in Harley MS. 661, both in the See also:British Museum. Richard See also:Grafton printed two See also:editions in See also:January 1543, which differ much from one another and from the now extant See also:manuscripts. See also:Stow, who was acquainted with a different version, censured Grafton on this point somewhat unjustly. Sir Henry See also:Ellis published the longer version of Grafton with some additions from the Harley MS. in 1812.

See Ellis' See also:

preface to Hardyng's Chronicle, and Sir F. See also:Palgrave's Documents illustrating the History of Scotland (for an See also:account of Hardyng's forgeries). (C. L. K.) See also:HARE; See also:AUGUSTUS JOHN See also:CUTHBERT (1834-1903), English writer and traveller, was born at Rome in 1834. He was educated at See also:Harrow school and at University See also:College, See also:Oxford. His name is See also:familiar as the author of a large number of See also:guide-books to the See also:principal countries and towns of See also:Europe, most of which were written to See also:order for John See also:Murray. They were made up partly of the author's own notes of travel, partly of quotations from others' books taken with a frankness of See also:appropriation that disarmed See also:criticism. He also wrote Memorials of a Quiet See also:Life that of his aunt by whom he had been adopted when a baby (1872), and a tediously See also:long autobiography in six volumes, The See also:Story of My Life.

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