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History of the English People, Volume II (of 8)

BOOK IV
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Hearne has published another contemporary account, that of Robert of Avesbury, which closes in 1356.

A third account by Knyghton, a canon of Leicester, will be found in the collection of Twysden.

At the end of this century and the beginning of the next the annals which had been carried on in the Abbey of St.Albans were thrown together by Walsingham in the "Historia Anglicana" which bears his name, a compilation whose history may be found in the prefaces to the "Chronica Monasterii S.Albani" issued in the Rolls Series.

An anonymous chronicler whose work is printed in the 22nd volume of the "Archaeologia" has given us the story of the Good Parliament, another account is preserved in the "Chronica Angliae from 1328 to 1388," published in the Rolls Series, and fresh light has been recently thrown on the time by the publication of a Chronicle by Adam of Usk which extends from 1377 to 1404.

Fortunately the scantiness of historical narrative is compensated by the growing fulness and abundance of our State papers.


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