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PREFACE. liii was to collect the most important of those written in Annales the thirteenth century. This intention has, I think, been fully carried out. The only monastick chronicles of the period that have not been included are the Chronicle of Melrose, published in Fulman's collection, and the ecclesiastical history of Edmund of Hadenham, from which Wharton has given some extracts in the first volume of the Anglia Sacra, where they occupy pp. 341- 355, under the title of " Annales ecclesise Rofiensis." The first of these, besides having been recently re-edited by Mr. Stevenson for the Bannatyne Club in 1835, rather belongs to a collection of the materials for Scotch history, and the second, from its bulk, could have no place in such a collection as the present; but, if deserving of entire publication, must be published by itself. It con- tains 39G folio pages in double columns of the huge MS. Cotton. Nero D. ii., and, as it begins in 604, far the greater portion is occupied in early church history. It goes down to 1307. The Lanercost Chronicle, a great portion of which was written during the reign of Edward I.,^ was also edited by Mr. Stevenson for the Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs in 1839. There is, however, a considerable number of smaller monastick annals, as, for instance, those of Dover (Cot- ton. Julius D. v.), Evesham (Harl. 229), Furness (Cot- ton. Cleopatra A. ]), Hagneby (Cotton. Vespas. B. xi.) Lewes (Cotton. Tiberius A. x.), Ramsey (Cotton. Otho, D. viii.), Wigmore (Sir Thomas Phillipps, 8139, olim Townley), Winchcomb (Cotton. Tiberius E. iv.), &c., be- sides others whose locality is unknown. These are all very brief, and do not contain mucli that is important, beyond events relating to the respective monasteries, and local ' See Mr. Stevenson's Preface, probably came from one of the p. xlii. He has shown that the ■ Minorites of Carlisle. (Preface, p. designation of " Lanercost " to this v.) chronicle is incorrect, and that it 1