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John Bourchier Berners - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | JOHN BOURCHIER BERNERS, 2ND Baron (1469-1533), English translator, was born probably at Tharfield, Hertfordshire, about 1469. |
| | Berners tells us in his prefaces of his own love of histories of all kinds, and in the introduction to his story of Arthur of Little Britain he excuses its "fayned mater" and "many unpossybylytees" on the ground that other well reputed histories are equally incredible. |
| | Berners is also credited with a book on the duties of the inhabitants of Calais, which Mr Sidney Lee thinks may be identical with the ordinance for watch and ward of Calais preserved in the Cotton MSS. |
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