Poems Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and Others in the Fifteenth Century

ACCOUNT, &c.
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ft To the Printer of the Town and Country Magazine. •
SIR,
If the Glossary annexed to the following piece will make the
language intelligible j the Sentiment, Description, and Versiiication,
are highly deserving the attention of the literati.
July 4, 1770. D. B.n
BATTLE OF HASTINGS, N° 1.
p. 2io
BATTLE OF HASTINGS, N° 2. 238
In printing the first of these poems two copies have been
made use os, both taken from copies of Chatterton's hand-wri
ting, the one by Mr. Catcott, and the other by Mr. Barrett.
The principal difference between them is at the end, where the
Utter has fourteen lines from ver. 550, which are wanting in
the former. The second poem is printed from a single copy,
made by Mr. Barrett from one in Chatterton's hand- writing.
It should be observed, that the Poem marked N° r, was
given to Mr. Barrett by Chatterton with the following title ;
" Battle of Hastings, wrote by Turgot the Monk, a Saxon, in the
tenth century, and translated by Thomas Rouilie, parijh preejle of
St. Johns in the city of Bristol, in the year 1465.—The remainder
of the poem I have not been happy enough to meet with." Being
afterwards prest by Mr. Barrett to produce any part of this
poem in the original hand-writing, he at last said, that he
wrote this poem himself for a friend ; but that he had another,