BOOK IV.
THE PARLIAMENT 1307-1461 AUTHORITIES FOR BOOK IV.
For Edward the Second we have three important contemporaries: Thomas de la More, Trokelowe's Annals, and the life by a monk of Malmesbury printed by Hearne.

The sympathies of the first are with the King, those of the last two with the Barons.

Murimuth's short Chronicle is also contemporary.

John Barbour's "Bruce," the great legendary storehouse for his hero's adventures, is historically worthless.
Important as it is, the reign of Edward the Third is by no means fortunate in its annalists.

The concluding part of the Chronicle of Walter of Hemingford or Heminburgh seems to have been jotted down as news of the passing events reached its author: it ends at the battle of Crecy.