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220 THE ENQUIRY OF THE DEATH OF RICHARD HUNNE. lEW among the many anonymous pamphlets which appeared during the religious controversies of the sixteenth century in England have been more often quoted or used as material by historians than that entitled 'The enquirie and verdite of the quest panneld of the death of Richard Hune wich was founde hanged in Lolars tower.' Its text, without the title and preface, was reprinted in full, though not quite accurately, in Hall's chro- nicle ; from this it was transcribed by Foxe into his ' A6ls and Monuments' ; and from Foxe or Hall are derived the numerous quotations in the works of later writers dealing with the reign of Henry VIII. The original seems to have remained almost un- known, though there is a reference to it in the article on Hunne in the ' Dictionary of National Biography.' Even the late Dr. Gairdner, in his 'History of the English Church in the Sixteenth Century,' illustrates by discrepancies occurring in it a charge against Hall that his ' unfairness on some particular subjects goes the length of positive dishonesty,' not having discovered that Hall had simply embedded in his narrative one of the pamphlets by unknown writers which he mentions in the list of works from which his chronicle was compiled. Various points of historical interest which arise