Medieval and early modern texts:

(1) Works arranged by author: H-N

• Edward Hall, The vnion of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre & Yorke (Hall's Chronicle) (University of Pennsylvania)
  Images of the printed edition of 1550
• Paul Hentzner, Travels in England during the reign of Elizabeth (Project Gutenberg)
  Text from the edition of Jane Duff (1892)
• Ranulf Higden: Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden monachi Cestrensis, together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century
  • gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050257-N050259, N050261-N050264
    PDF format; Latin and English texts (incomplete) from the edition of Churchill Babington and others (Rolls Series 41, vols 2-4 and 6-9; 1869-1886)
  • • Churchill Babington, ed., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Volume 1. (1865) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Churchill Babington, ed., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Volume 1. (1869) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Joseph Rawson Lumby, ed., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Volume 3. (1871) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Joseph Rawson Lumby, ed., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Volume 4. (1872) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Joseph Rawson Lumby, ed., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Volume 5. (1874) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Joseph Rawson Lumby, ed., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Volume 6. (1876) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Joseph Rawson Lumby, ed., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Volume 7. (1879) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Joseph Rawson Lumby, ed., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Volume 8. (1882) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
    • Joseph Rawson Lumby, ed., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Volume 9. (1886) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• Richard Hill, Commonplace book (Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
  Images of Balliol College manuscript 354; English, Latin and French, early 16th century; memorandum book of Richard Hill, citizen and grocer of London, including London annals and family memoranda
• Raphael Holinshed, The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland
  • Texts of the two editions published in 1577 and 1587 (The Holinshed Project)
    The project website also includes a comprehensive analysis of the sources used by Holinshed, a bibliography and some working papers.
  • Text (Project Gutenberg)
    • William the Conqueror
    • William Rufus
    • Henry I
    • Stephen
    • Henry II
    • Richard I
  • Printed edition of 1587 (3 volumes) (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Text, for Edward IV, Richard III and Edward V (excerpts, in progress) (Richard III Society American Branch - Primary Source Materials)
• Roger of Hoveden:
  • Chronica magistri Rogeri de Houedene (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050281, N050282, N050284)
    PDF format; Latin texts (incomplete) from the edition of William Stubbs (Rolls Series 51, vols 1, 2 and 4; 1868-1871)
  • The Annals of Roger de Hoveden Comprising The History of England and of Other Countries of Europe from A.D. 732 to A.D. 1201. (Susan Rhoads, Elfinspell)
    Text of the English translation of Henry T. Riley [1853], in progress. The text from volume 1 is now complete.
• Henry of Huntingdon
  • The history of the English from A.C. 55 to A.D. 1154, in eight books (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050341)
    PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Thomas Arnold (Rolls Series 74; 1879)
  • King Stephen's reign (John Jay Phillips, Conquest) [not available, 19 April 2015; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from September 2013]
    English translation of an extract of Henry of Huntingdon's History
• John Glover, ed., Le livere de reis de Brittanie e le livere de reis de Engletere [attributed to Peter of Ickham] (1865) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Rolls Series number 42. French text and English translation.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4 .]
• Peter of Ickham (attributed), Le livere de reis de Brittanie; Le livere de reis de Engleterre; La vie del rei Edward le Premier (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050265)
  PDF format; French texts from the edition of John Glover (Rolls Series 42; 1865)
• Henry T. Riley, ed., Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland with the continuations by Peter of Blois and anonymous writers (1854 etc) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  English translation of a pseudonymous manuscript from the 13th or 14th century, earlier attributed to Ingulph, with continuations to the late 15th century.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4 ;  5 ;  6 ;  7 ;  8 .]
• Guillaume de Jumi�ges: Histoire des Normands (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N094621)
  PDF format; French translation, from the edition of F. Guizot (1823-1835)
• Peter of Langtoft, The chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft, in french verse, from the earliest period to the death of king Edward I (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050275)
  PDF format; French text (incomplete) from the edition of Thomas Wright (Rolls Series 47, vol.2; 1868)
• John Leland: Lucy Toulmin Smith, ed., The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543. Parts I to III. [Volume 1.] (1907) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• John Leland: Lucy Toulmin Smith, ed., The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543. Parts IV and V. [Volume 2.] (1908) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• John Leland: Lucy Toulmin Smith, ed., The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543. [Part VI (The Itinerary in Wales). Volume 3.] (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• John Leland: Lucy Toulmin Smith, ed., The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543. Parts VII and VIII. [Volume 4.] (1909) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• John Leland: Lucy Toulmin Smith, ed., The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543. Parts IX, X and XI. [Volume 5] (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  With appendices, glossary and index.
• Jan Huyghen Van Linschoten Discourses of Voyages (1598) (Susan Rhoads, Elfinspell)
  Excerpt concerning the sea battle of the Revenge in 1591, from C. Raymond Beazley, An English Garner ? Voyages and Travels mainly during the 16th and 17th Centuries, vol. 2, pp. 115-120 (1902).
• Caradoc of Llangarfan, The Life of Gildas
  A largely legendary 12th-century biography of the 6th-century historian:
  • English translation (Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
    From Hugh Williams, Two Lives of Gildas by a monk of Ruys and Caradoc of Llancarfan (1899)
  • Latin text and English translation (Wesleyan University) [formerly on the site of the Wesleyan University, but no longer maintained; see the Internet Archive's copies of the Latin text and English translation, from July 2003]
    Apparently also from Williams' edition
• John Lydgate: The Lives of Ss Edmund and Fremund (including The Miracles of St Edmund) (Canon of John Lydgate Project, University of Alberta) [not available, 10 December 2019; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from September 2016]
  Original (untranslated) text, from Carl Horstmann, ed., Altenglische legenden (1881)
• Clement Maidstone, The Martyrdom of Archbishop Richard Scrope (Catholic University of America)
  English translation of the Latin text published by James Raine, in Historians of the Church of York (Rolls Series 71; 1886), part of Hyper/Hagiography: Archbishop Richard le Scrope.
• Richard of Maidstone, The Reconciliation of Richard II with the City of London, 1393,
  in Political poems and songs relating to English history, composed during the period from the accession of Edw. III to that of Ric. III (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050165, N050166)
  PDF format; texts - in various languages - from the edition of Thomas Wright (Rolls Series 14, vols 1 and 2; 1859-1861)
• William of Malmesbury
  • Willelmi Malmesbiriensis monachi De gestis pontificum anglorum libri quinque (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050285)
    PDF format; Latin text from the edition of N.E.S.A. Hamilton (Rolls Series 52; 1870)
  • Chronicle of the Kings of England: the Anglo-Saxon Kings (Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
    Extracts from Books 1 and 3 of William of Malmesbury's Chronicle; English translation by John Sharpe (1815)
• Adam de Marisco, Epistolae,
  in Monumenta franciscana (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050147, N050148)
  PDF format; Latin texts from the edition of J. S. Brewer and Richard Howlett (Rolls Series 4, vols 1 and 2; 1858, 1882)
• Geoffrey of Monmouth,
  • History of the Kings of Britain (In Parentheses)
    English translation "by Aaron Thompson with revisions by J.A. Giles"; PDF format
  • J. A. Giles, ed., Six Old English Chronicles ... Ethelwerd's Chronicle. Asser's Life of Alfred. Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History. Gildas. Nennius. And Richard of Cirencester. (1848) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    English translations.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4 ;  5 ;  6 ;  7 ;  8 ;  9 ;  10 .]
• Sir Thomas More,
  • The History of King Richard III (Richard III Society American Branch - Primary Source Materials)
    Text of the 1557 edition
  • The History of King Richard the Third (Renascence Editions, University of Oregon)
    Text of the 1557 edition.
• Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia or, Observations on the Late Queen Elizabeth, her Times, and Favourites (1641) (Project Gutenberg)
  Text from the edition of Jane Duff (1892)
• Alexander Neckam: Alexandri Neckam De naturis rerum libri duo, with the poem of the same author De laudibus divinae sapientiae (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050236)
  PDF format; Latin texts from the edition of Thomas Wright (Rolls Series 34; 1863)
• Nennius (attributed), History of the Britons
  • historia brittonum (Keith Matthews)
    Reconstruction of the archetypal Latin text, from the edition of Theodore Mommsen
  • Historia Brittonum (with a second version) (Keith J. Matthews, Archaeology, University of Liverpool; Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive)
    Latin text from the edition of Theodore Mommsen. [not available, 1 August 2018; see the Internet Archive's copies of these pages, from August 2016 and September 2015]
  • The Historia Brittonum (Gwarnant) [formerly at http://www.webexcel.ndirect.co.uk/gwarnant/hanes/texts/textshistoriav.htm; not available, 16 May 2006; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from October 2004]
    Extract from the Vatican recension, from the edition of David Dumville
  • Historia Brittonum (Elfinspell)
    Latin text and English translation from the edition of William Gunn (1819).
  • History of the Britons (Project Gutenberg)
    English translation from J.A. Giles, ed., Six Old English Chronicles (1878)
  • J. A. Giles, ed., Six Old English Chronicles ... Ethelwerd's Chronicle. Asser's Life of Alfred. Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History. Gildas. Nennius. And Richard of Cirencester. (1848) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
    English translations.
    [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4 ;  5 ;  6 ;  7 ;  8 ;  9 ;  10 .]
• Thomas Netter, Fasciculi zizaniorum magistri Johannis Wyclif cum tritico (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050149)
  PDF format; Latin text from the edition of the Rev. Walter Waddington Shirley (Rolls Series 5; 1858)
• William of Newburgh
  • Historia rerum anglicarum,
    in Chronicles of the reigns of Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050357)
    PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Richard Howlett (Rolls Series 82, vol.1; 1884)
  • History (Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
    English translation by Joseph Stevenson, from The Church Historians of England, vol.4, part 2 (1861)
• Anthony Nixon The Three English Brothers. Sir Thomas Sherley his Travels, with his three yeares imprisonment in Turkie ... (1607) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  An account of the adventures of the privateer Sir Thomas Sherley [Shirley] in the early 17th century.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]