what ought to be excluded. My practice has been to keep all that was derived from unprinted sources, and all that related to family history: while I have left out mere illustrations and extracts from books that are now generally accessible. I have adhered rigidly to Mr Blaauw's spelling, even where it is now antiquated; and wherever I have thought it necessary to make a change or add a note have distinguished what is my own by spaced lines [ ] or by the initial P. In a few cases where Mr Walford's notes had not been transcribed by Mr Blaauw (I believe merely from the interruption of illness), I have added them and distinguished them by the letters W. S. W.

I need not say that no care of an editor can in any appreciable degree replace the last touchings and remodellings of an author. Nevertheless judged by what it is, I believe Mr Blaauw's work will long continue to hold a high place among works of its kind. It may serve as some evidence of the care with which he explored the sources of history, that the invaluable publications of the Record Commission during the last fourteen years have not, I think, contained a book except the Annals of Dunstaple, which he had overlooked, while many of the Manuscripts he cites are unfortunately to this moment I confess to thinking that even now unsurpassed as a

without an Editor. the Barons' War is

history of the particular period it deals with. Some day it will no doubt be superseded, for there are still unused records to be drawn upon. So thorough and modest a student as Mr Blaauw would have been the first to disclaim the praise of having left nothing for his successors to add: the last to wish that his own work should be final.

I have to return my best thanks to Mr F. J. Furnivall, who kindly collated a MS. for me in the British Museum; and more particularly still to the Rev. H. R. Luard, who besides doing me the same good office, has supplied many valuable corrections throughout the book. The Index is due to the author's son, Mr T. St Leger Blaauw.

CHARLES H. PEARSON.

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

May 28, 1871.

REFERENCES.

* denotes those who were of the Royalists' party, and † the Baronial.

Anglia Sacra.

By Henry Wharton, folio, London, 1691, contains the account of the affairs of Durham Cathedral from 1214 to 1336, by Robert de Graystanes, SubPrior of Durham, who was elected Bishop by his convent 1332, and consecrated in spite of the king's prohibition.-He was afterwards superseded, and died of vexation. A graphic intelligent writer.

Art de vérifier les Dates-3 T. folio, Paris, 1783.

Ann. Burt.t. . . . . . Annals written in the monastery of Burton contain

many interesting documents, and end abruptly with the King's intention to annul the Oxford Statutes. [Edited by Fulman, and more lately by the Rev. H. R. Luard for the Record Commission. Annales Monastici, Vol. I.]

[Ann. of Dunstaple... Edited by Hearne, and more lately by the Rev. H. R. Luard for the Record Commission. Annales Monastici, Vol. III.]

Chronicle by an impartial Languedocian of the Albi-
gensian war, from 1202 to 1219. Recueil des
Histoires de la France, Tom. XX. 1840.
There are many interesting MSS. relating to English
history in the vast collections of the Archives du
Royaume, at Paris. An imperfect catalogue of
them has been printed in Trésor des Chartes.
Siege of Carlaverock (from MSS. Cott. Caligula A.
XVIII.), a poem in French, by Walter, a Fran-
ciscan monk of Exeter, describing the siege of
that castle (6 m. south of Dumfries) by Edward I.,
in July, 1300, edited by N. H. Nicolas, 1828.

Chr. Dover +

Chr. Jocelin.

Chr. Lanerc.+

Chr. Laud.*

Chr. Lewes.*

Chr. Mailr. +

Chr. Oxen.

Chr. Peterb.

Chr. Ramsey

Chronica paucorum, continued to 1286 by a monk of S. Martin in Dover. The MS. (Cott. Julius D. V.) is much burnt and shrivelled by fire in the pages relating to 1264-5.

Chronica Jocelini de Brakelond, a monk of S. Ed

mund's Bury, relating the affairs of the monastery from 1173 to 1202, during the Abbacy of Samson de Totington, or Totigtune, in the hundred of Weyland, Norfolk,-a picturesque account in amusing detail of the manners, &c. of the interior of the Abbey,-published by the Camden Society from MS. Harl. 1005.

Chronicle of Lanercost Abbey, in Cumberland, MSS.
Harl. 3425. Cotton MSS. Claud. D. VII. 13:
"Historia Anglorum ab 1181 ad 1346-per quem-
dam Canonicum de Lanercost."-The Cotton MS.
is much better than the more recent transcript in
Harl. MS. Printed by the Maitland Club in 4to.
1839. The battle of Lewes is described on the au-
thority of a nobleman there present (protestante
mihi uno nobili qui ibi fuerat), and also that of
Evesham (ore tenus attestante mihi uno illorum
qui adversus eum dimicavit).

Chron. Laudunense a Bruto usque ad 1338.—MSS.
Cott. Nero, A. IV., 8vo. At p. 110 is a rude draw-
ing of the capture of Henry III., and the death of
Simon de Montfort.

Chronicle by a monk of Lewes to 1312 contains a
concise but authentic account of the battle.-
MSS. Cott. Tib. A. X.

Cotton MS. Faustina B. IX. Chronicle by the
monks of Mailros, in Galloway, begun 1235, and
continued to 1270 by various hands, from 1262 by
one partial to the Barons in Rerum Anglic. Script.
Vet. T. I.

Chronicle of John de Oxenede, Benedictine monk of
S. Hulme, continued to 1293.-MSS. Cott. Nero
D. II. Cotton MS. Faustina B. XIV. is appa-
rently similar. [Edited by Sir H. Ellis for the
Record Commission.]

Chronicle of John de Raleto, Abbot of Peterborough,
and Robert Boston, monk of Spalding, continued
to 1368.

Chronicle by a monk of Ramsey, written before 1267.-MSS. Cott. Otho D. VIII., partly burnt.

Chr. Roff.+.

Chr. Shepis.

Chr. Taxter.

Chr. Trivet..

.. Chronica de primis incolis Hyberniæ et de rebus Britannicis, &c., ad coronationem Edwardi I., folio MS. Cott. Nero, D. II., by a monk of Rochester, with some rude drawings at the bottom of the pages, one at p. 176 representing the mutilation of Simon de Montfort's body.

... Chronicle of William de Shepisheved, MSS. Cott.
Faust. B. VI.

Chronicle of Taxter, a monk of Bury, from 1245 to
1265, MSS. Cott. Julius, A. I., quoted in notes to
Rishanger's Chr. de Bellis L. et Ev. [Printed by
Mr. Thorpe in the second volume of Florence of
Worcester, as the continuation of that author.]
Chronica Triveti, Harl. MSS. 4322, written during

Edward I.'s reign...printed in the Spicilegium of
Luc d'Achery, and edited by Mr Hog for the
English Historical Society.

Chr. Worc. Wigorn. . . Chronicle of Worcester, MSS. Cott. Calig. A. 10 to 1308 A. D. [Edited by Rev. H. R. Luard for the Record Commission. Annales Monastici, Vol. IV.]

Epist. Ad. de Marisco. Epistolæ Adamæ de Marisco, a Franciscan monk of much learning. The MS. (Cott. Vitell. C. VIII.) is much shrivelled by fire in the upper part of each page, but is mostly legible, and contains many curious letters to Q. Eleanor, Simon de Montfort, his Countess, &c. [Edited by the Rev. Professor Brewer for the Record Commission. Monumenta Franciscana.]

Fabyan +

Chronicle of Robert Fabyan, Alderman of London, Sheriff 1493; a good authority for details relating to London.

Gugl. Pod. Laur. . . . . Guglielmi de Podio Laurentii Historia Albigensium, a monk of Puy Laurent, near Albi, born about 1210, died after 1272. Recueil des Hist. de la France, tome XX., 1840.

....

Walt. Heming.+ . . . . Chronicle of Walter Hemingford, a monk of Gisburn, where he died 1347. He had good opportunities of obtaining information from eye-witnesses for his history, which extends to 1308. [Printed in Gale, and edited (as Hemingburgh) by Mr Hamilton for the English Historical Society.] Histoire de Foulques Fitz Warin, Paris, 1840, edited from MS. in Br. Mus. by M. Michel, who refers this curious biography erroneously to the Fitz

Hist. F. Fitzw..