Florentii Wigorniensis monachi Chronicon ex chronicis,: ab adventu Hengesti et Horsi in Britanniam usque ab annum M.C.XVII. Cui accesserunt continuationes duae, quarum una ad annum M.C.XLI., altera, nunc primum typis vulgata, ad annum M.CC.XCV. perducta, Volume 2

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Sumptibus Societatis., 1849 - Great Britain - 328 pages
 

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Page xii - third son of Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter and heiress of Thomas Lord Audley of Walden.
Page vii - especially those of the reign of Edward the Confessor, his narrative is in several instances much more circumstantial than any to be found in the existing manuscripts of that record, from which he also not unfrequently deviates in dates,' particularly in his relation of events during the
Page 53 - tota terra sua quam habuit in Anglia. Non facile potest narrari ¿ miseria quam sustinuit isto tempore terra
Page xii - MS. Cott. Jul. A. 1. Of inferior value to the above, and damaged by fire. For the first edition of the joint chronicle of Marianus Scotus and Florence of Worcester, we are indebted to the Lord William Howard of Naworth,' third son of Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk,
Page vii - particularly in his relation of events during the reigns of Edward the Elder and Edward the Confessor. Whence it seems probable that he had before him a copy of the Chronicle varying from any now extant, though bearing the nearest resemblance to the Worcester manuscript.
Page 8 - justo Dei judicio ac scriptis evidentissi.mis detritis, et penitus annihilatis, non solum vir Dei Wlstanus proclamatas et expetitas possessiones recepit, sed et suam ecclesiam, Deo donante ac rege concedente, ea
Page 36 - The above numerous determinations of the period of Wulfstan's death are, perhaps, to be accounted for by the circumstance of his connexion with the monastery to which Florence himself belonged. Of some the accuracy is doubtful, others, as it is shown, are manifestly inaccurate. Wharton, in a note on the subject, says, ‘Multiplex in
Page 4 - prope castella erant, adjumenta Danis ad implendas fossas castellorum essent, igne eas succendere coeperunt; qui nimis excrescens,
Page xv - repudiare non debui, et pro necessitudinis vinculo diutius sustinere non potui, jam tandem victus concessi. Jamque operi e tenebris in lucem prodituro patronus defuit. Unus occurrebas eo nomine inprimis dignus. Hoc igitur qualitercunque
Page 2 - in custodiam mitterentur formidantes, sumptis secum clitone Eadgaro, et matre sua Agatha, duabusque sororibus suis Margareta et Christina, navigio Scottiam adierunt, ibidemque, regis

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