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'Hokclyff' and the Will of William Hoton.
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Review of English Studies . Feb2021, Vol. 72 Issue 303, p19-40. 22p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- There are two surviving copies of La Male Regle by Thomas Hoccleve, a lively account of his dissolute life as a clerk of the Privy Seal. One is part of an autograph manuscript of Hoccleve's works in the Huntington Library, the other an incomplete version in Canterbury Cathedral Archives. Reference to a third copy survives in the will of William Hoton, proved in 1447. As well as La Male Regle , Hoton bequeathed a letter of Pharaoh, a chronicle and statutes, together with a mazer and pious donations. This information, coupled with records of Hoton's family members, his burial place and associates, produces a profile of William Hoton linking him with the law and the book trade, and possibly with Neville's Inn, the London town house used by a noble family to whose members Hoccleve addressed some of his poems. Hoton's will also leads to a second individual who owned La Male Regle —the person who received it as a bequest, the common attorney and citizen, John Mordon. Neither Hoton nor Mordon has hitherto featured in discussions of the reception of the poem, which enjoyed a wider circulation than previously thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- *CHURCH archives
*PHARAOHS
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00346551
- Volume :
- 72
- Issue :
- 303
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Review of English Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 149634789
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgaa001