It affected Southern in the same way, but at a somewhat earlier date; so that (even in Kent) it is very difficult to find a Southern work after 1350.

There is, however, one remarkable exception in the case of a work which may be dated in 1387, written by John Trevisa.

Trevisa (as the prefix Tre- suggests) was a native of Cornwall, but he resided chiefly in Gloucestershire, where he was vicar of Berkeley, and chaplain to Thomas Lord Berkeley.

The work to which I here refer is known as his translation of Higden.

Ralph Higden, a Benedictine monk in the Abbey of St Werburg at Chester, wrote in Latin a long history of the world in general, and of Britain in particular, with the title of the _Polychronicon_, which achieved considerable popularity.