Notes. We cannot identify a precise composition date for this anagram, which may in fact pre-date the assassination. The anagram is incorporated into the post-assassination verse “A yere of wonder to the world was 88”, and survives as an independent work in two contemporary manuscripts.

“Anagramma”

GEORGIVS.VILLERIVS.

REGIS.VVLGI.ILLVSOR

prince and people deluder

Source. BL Add. MS 29492, fol. 55v

Other known sources. CUL MS Dd.11.73, fol. 69r

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