Great Britain -- History -- To 1066

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Chronicles

Copies of: (a) The concluding portion, from 1065 to the end, of the Historia de gestis regalibus regum britannie of Alfred of Beverley. This copy contains the additional paragraphs which are to be found in Peniarth MS 384 (ff. 1-3 verso, 10-16 verso); (b) Portions of the chronicle of Robert of Torigni: 1. Prologus Roberti de Torineio, beginning 'De Chronographia temporum descriptione ...' (ff. 7-8), 2. The letter of Henry of Huntingdon to Guerin le Breton ('Incipit Epistola Archidiaconi ad Warinum Britonem de regno Britonum ...') wherein he refers to a copy of a history of the British Kings by Geoffrey Arthur in the Abbey of Bec, in 1139 (ff. 8-9 verso and ff. 4-5 verso).
The Chronicle of Robert of Torigni is printed in Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I ..., edited from manuscripts by Richard Howlett, 4 vols (London, 1884-1889), IV (1889) [Rolls Series, vol. 82].

Alfred, of Beverley

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Transcripts of a letter from 'Mr Kinaston o Bant y Byrsley', a letter from Robert Vaughan (Hengwrt) to 'Mr Kinaston' a table of tolls payable by the inhabitants of the townships of Measbury, Sweeney, Llanforda, Treflech, Trefychlawdd, Weston, Cotton, and Soughton, and by 'forrinors' at Oswestry fairs [1608], Trioedd Taliesin, fragments of early British history and genealogy, and englynion by Huw Morus, Richard Abraham, Syr Lewis, etc.