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PREFACE. XXVli son of Peter de Montfort is said to have been killed at Evesham. (See the note on the passage.) In pp. 236, 262, the prior of Canterbury is called William instead of Adam (de Chillenden). In the later portion we find Beatrice for Margaret (p. 325), and in p, 328, Joan of Acre, the countess of Gloucester, is called sister (germana) instead of dccughter of Edward I. These are probably merely slips. On the whole, I think, it will be found that these annals of Osney form a very valuable contribution to the history of the time during which they were written, Thomas Wykes is too well known and has been too Thomas much used to require very much being said about his ^ history ; but it will be of use to point out some of the facts our knowledge of which is especially due to him, and the touches by means of which we are able to form a clearer idea of the leading actors in the history of the time. In the account of Hubert de Burgh's rescue by Gil- Details bert Basset and Richard Si ward in 1233 (p. 76), Wykes Pfjjj'if gives the curious statement that he was removed against his own wish (eo nolente) ; in 1235 (p. 82) he has pre- served the record of the royal visit to Oxford, and of the queen's reception by the university, of which there is no word in Osney.^ The account (p. 84) of the riot in ] 238, between the Oxford scholars and the servants of the legate Otho, is very full, and quite independent of that given by Matthew Paris. In 1245 he speaks of the Franciscans at Oxford enlarging their boundaries and building (p. 93), and of the Dominicans celebrating in their new church for the first time in the next year (p. 95). Their new house was near the great bridge at Oxford (p. 94). The most valuable portion of the chronicle is the Leading account of the barons' war, whicli from the beginning p^^J'^cters ' Consequently there is no mention of this in Anthony Wood.