Albert Way

“ The history is continued to the accession of William Rufus. "Incipit cronica de adquisicione Regni Anglie per Willelmum Ducem Normannorum," &c. closing in 1354, with the birth of Edward of Engolesme, eldest son of the Black Prince. Wharton speaks of "Historiæ de regibus Anglorum, de Pontificibus Romanis, et de Imperatoribus Romanis," as found together with the chronicle of the archbishops of Canterbury ”

“ Amongst the objects of the useful medium of literary communication afforded by the publication of "Notes and Queries," one appears to be a record of the casual notice of "some book or some edition, hitherto unknown or imperfectly described." ”

“ It closes with the year 1359, in the times of Innocent VI. "De Imperatoribus Romanis:"–from Julius Cæsar to the election and coronation of Charles IV. after the death of the emperor Lewis of Bavaria, and the Battle of Cressy, in 1347. "Compilacio cronicorum de diversis archiepiscopis ecclesie Cantuariensis:"—the chronicle of Stephen Birchington, a monk of Canterbury, printed by Wharton, from a MS. in the Lambeth collection. ”