BOOK III.
THE CHARTER 1204-1307 AUTHORITIES FOR BOOK III.
1204-1307 A Chronicle drawn up at the monastery of Barnwell near Cambridge, and which has been embodied in the "Memoriale" of Walter of Coventry, gives us a contemporary account of the period from 1201 to 1225.

We possess another contemporary annalist for the same period in Roger of Wendover, the first of the published chroniclers of St.Albans, whose work extends to 1235.

Though full of detail Roger is inaccurate, and he has strong royal and ecclesiastical sympathies; but his chronicle was subsequently revised in a more patriotic sense by another monk of the same abbey, Matthew Paris, and continued in the "Greater Chronicle" of the latter.
Matthew has left a parallel but shorter account of the time in his "Historia Anglorum" (from the Conquest to 1253).

He is the last of the great chroniclers of his house; for the chronicles of Rishanger, his successor at St.Albans, and of the obscurer annalists who worked on at that Abbey till the Wars of the Roses are little save scant and lifeless jottings of events which become more and more local as time goes on.

The annals of the abbeys of Waverley, Dunstable, and Burton, which have been published in the "Annales Monastici" of the Rolls series, add important details for the reigns of John and Henry III.