Authority Cited: Robert of Gloucester
Author name and dates: Robert of Gloucester (fl. c.1260–c.1300)
BKG Bio-tweet: Historian; Chronicle ranges from fabulous to eye-witness accounts; SJ refers to his use of “shrew” as unisex
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Robert of Gloucester cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2 word list. Item 369 of the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a facsimile edition, Fleeman, ed., is 2. Robert of Gloucester's chronicle, 2 v. Oxon. 1724. Per Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (p.108) the lines quoted in the Dictionary "History of the English Language" are in Vol.1 pp.260-270 of the title below. SJ also cites Hearne's Glossary of this title under stoniness.]
Author name and dates: Robert of Gloucester (fl. c.1260–c.1300)
BKG Bio-tweet: Historian; Chronicle ranges from fabulous to eye-witness accounts; SJ refers to his use of “shrew” as unisex
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Robert of Gloucester cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2 word list. Item 369 of the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a facsimile edition, Fleeman, ed., is 2. Robert of Gloucester's chronicle, 2 v. Oxon. 1724. Per Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (p.108) the lines quoted in the Dictionary "History of the English Language" are in Vol.1 pp.260-270 of the title below. SJ also cites Hearne's Glossary of this title under stoniness.]
- Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. Transcrib'd, and now first publish'd, from a MS. in the Harleyan Library by Thomas Hearne, M.A. To which is added, besides a glossary and other Improvements, a continuation (by the author himself) of this chronicle from a MS. in the Cottonian Library. In two volumes, 1724, Oxford: Printed at the Theater; lither (luther) [BKG Note: SJ cites R. of G. use, but dos not quote the text. Several instances of luther were found in an electronic search of the above edition of the Chronicle.]; shrew (screwen, v.1, p.177, see image below, lines 8, 9. An alternative reading of sherewes is given in the footnote. The Dict. quote is "There dede of hem vor hunger a thousand and mo, And yat nolde the screwen to none pes go. Robert of Gloucester.")
