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Wykes. XXXIV PEEFACE, his return (1275), seems i^eculiar to Wykes (p. 263). In the later portion, where the two MSS. are identical, the account (p, 306) of the condemnation of the errors of the Dominican Richard Knapwell or Clapwell (of whom see the Dunstable Annals, p. 323), is deserving of notice. En-ors in I have already spoken of the carelessness of the sci'ibe to whom the only MS. of Thomas Wykes is due ; but there are some errors which can only be put down to the author himself. Thus in 1085 (p. 11) there is a singular confusion between the two Popes who folloAved Gregory VII., Victor and Urban, which is not due either to Florence of Worcester or to the Osney Annals, which- ever was the immediate source of this portion of the chronicle. Here it would appear that Florence was followed through the Osney MS., as Wykes follows the latter in placing under 1093 what Florence has under 1096. Under the year 1127, where William of New- burgh is the authority used, Wykes has made several blunders respecting Stephen of Blois (see p. 19, note 1). In p. 26 Gilbert Foliot, the bishop of London, is called Robert, though Osney gives the name correctly. In p. 34 (1172) the young king Henry and his wife are said to have been crowned at Westminster instead of Winchester. In p. 41 Lodoivicus is given for Philippus, a confusion between the two successive kings, though here too Osney is correct. In p. 53 the capture of the count of Flanders and others, at what must be meant for the battle of Bovines, is put six years before its real date. In p. 62 wi-ong dates are given of the Lateran council and of the birth of S. Thomas Aquinas ; the first of these is singular, as the death of Innocent III. had been mentioned only just before under its proper year (p. 59). In p. 67, in copying Osney in mentioning the (ieath of William Brewer, Wykes carelessly calls him " episcopus Exonien- " sis," confusing him with his nephew; and in p. 117 the bishop's death is again mentioned under the year 1 257, instead of that of his successor. In the same page the account of the raid by the Welsh on the lands