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HUCHOWN , " of the Awle Ryale " (fl. 14th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century), Scottish poet, is referred to by See also:

WYNTOUN, ANDREW OF (?1350-?142o)

Wyntoun in his See also:

CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

Chronicle in these words:—" Hucheon, pat cunnande was in littratur. He made a gret Gest of Arthure, And pe Awntyr of Gawane, Ke See also:

PISTIL

Pistil als of See also:

SUET (M. Eng. sewet, a diminutive of O. Fr. seu, suis, mod. suif, lard, from Lat. sebum, or sebum, tallow, grease, probably allied to sago, soap)

Suet Susane. He was curyousse in his stille, Faye of facunde and subtile, And ay to pleyssance hade delyte, Mad in metyr meit his dyte Litil or noucht neuir pe See also:

LESSE

lesse Wauerande fra pe suythfastnes." (Cott. MS. bk. v. II, 4308-4318). Much See also:

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical ingenuity has been spent in endeavouring to identify (a) the poet and (b) the See also:

WORKS

works named in the foregoing passage. It has been assumed that " Huchown," or " Hucheorr,",. represents the " See also:

GUDE (Gumus), MARQUARD (1635–1689)

gude See also:

Sir Hew of Eglyntoun " named by See also:

Dunbar (q.v.) in his Lament for the Makaris (i. 53). The only known Sir See also:

Hugh of Eglintoun of the century is frequently mentioned in the public records from the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the century onwards, as an auditor of accounts and as See also:

witness to. several charters. By 136o he had married See also:

Dame Egidia, widow of Sir See also:

James See also:

LINDSAY

Lindsay and See also:

HALF

half-See also:

SISTER

sister of See also:

Robert the Steward. His public See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office and association with the Steward sorts well with the designation " of the Awle Ryalet" if that be interpreted as " Aula Regalis " or " Royal See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

Palace." He appears to have died See also:

LATE

late in 1376 or See also:

early in 1377.

The first of the poems named above, the Gest of Arthure of Gest Historyalle (ib. i. 4288), has been identified by Dr Trautmann, " Anglia," Der Dickler Huchown (1877), with the alliterative Morte Arthure in the See also:

Thornton MS. at See also:

Lincoln, printed by the E.E.T.S. (ed. See also:

Brock, 1865). The problem of the second(The Awntyr of Gawane) is still in dispute. There are difficulties in the way of accepting the conjecture that the poem is the " Awn-tyres of Arthure at the See also:

TERN (Norsk taerne, tende or tende; Swedish tarna; Dutch Stern1)

Tern Wathelyne " (see S.T.S., Scottish Alliterative Poems, 1897, and Introduction, pp. i1 et seq.), and little See also:

DIRECT

direct See also:

EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence in favour of the view that the reference is to the greatest of middle See also:

ENGLISH

English romances, Sir See also:

GAWAIN (Fr. Walwain (Brut)

Gawain and the Grene See also:

Knight. The third may be safely accepted as the well-known Pistil [See also:

EPISTLE

Epistle] of Swete Susan, printed by See also:

Laing (Select Remains, 1822) and by the S.T.S. (Scottish Alliterative Poems, u.s.). See, in addition to the works named. above, G. See also:

NEILSON, ADELAIDE (1846—188o)

Neilson's Sir Hew of Eglintoun and Huchown of the Awle Ryale (See also:

GLASGOW

Glasgow, 1901), which contains a full See also:

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of references to the See also:

HISTORICAL

historical Sir Hew of Eglintoun; Huchown of the Awle Ryale, the Alliterative Poet (Glasgow, 1902) by the same; J. T. T.

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