Chronica et Annales, 61-127. Rolls Series. London, 1866.Another edition, by Thomas Hearne, Oxford, 1729. Written after 1229; valuable for the reign of Edward II. The author, a monk of St. Albans, was an eye-witness of many of the transactions which he narrates. His work was the basis of Walsingham's account of the years 1307-23; but Walsingham attributes these annals to Rishanger. 1852. TROYES, CHRESTIEN DE (d. circa 1195). Du roi Guillaume d'Angleterre, ed. J. A. Giles, Scriptores Rerum Gestarum Willelmi, 179-269. Caxton Soc. London, 1845.-Other editions in Michel's Chroniques Anglo-Normandes, iii. 39-172, Rouen, 1840; Wendelin Foerster's Christian von Troyes Sämtliche Werke, iv. 253-360, 426-60, Halle, 1899. A French poem (of no historical authority) relating to William the Conqueror, témoigne d'une grande fécondité d'imagination.' Chrestien was the most celebrated French poet of the 12th century. See Histoire Littéraire de la France (Paris, 1869), xv. 193-264. 1853. USK, ADAM OF (d. circa 1430). Chronicon, 1377–1404. Edited, with a translation, by E. M. Thompson. Royal Soc. of Literature. London, 1876; 2nd edition (1377-1421), 1904. Written after 1415, and intended as a continuation of Higden. The part 1377-94 is meagre, as is also that of 1404-21. The latter is the missing portion of the unique text of the MS. in the British Museum which was found in 1885. The author, a Welshman, was an ecclesiastical lawyer. He sat on the commission for the deposition of Richard II., and was employed in the service of Henry IV. See Thompson's introduction to the second edition. 1853a. VENETTE, JEAN DE. [Chronique, 1340-68], ed. H. Géraud, Chronique Latine de Guillaume de Nangis, ii. 179-378. Société de l'Histoire de France. Paris, 1843. This anonymous Latin chronicle, continuing Guillaume de Nangis, has been shown by La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (in Histoire [or Mémoires, etc.] de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 1733, viii. 569-78, 1740, xiii. 520-33) to be the work of Jean de Venette, prior of the Carmelite convent in Paris, who died about 1370. The author is hostile to the nobility and to the English armies. See Géraud's introduction, vol. i. pp. xix.-xl.; and Molinier, Sources, iv. no. 3098. 1854. VERGIL, POLYDORE (d. circa 1555). Anglica historiæ libri xxvii. [from the earliest times to 1538]. Leyden, 1651; other editions, Basel, 1555, 1556, and 1570.-Editions of bks. i.-xxvi., to 1509: Basel, 1534, 1546; 2 vols., Ghent, 1556-57; 2 vols., Douai, 1603.-Three books of Polydore Vergil's English history, comprising the reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III. [1422-85, from a translation of Henry VIII.'s time], ed. Henry Ellis. Camden Soc. London, 1844.—Polydore Vergil's English history, from an early translation. Vol. i., containing the first eight books, comprising the period prior to the Norman conquest, ed. Henry Ellis. Camden Soc. London, 1846. Ellis says that this is the first of our histories in which the writer ventured to compare the facts and weigh the statements of his predecessors.' Gairdner calls it the first fruit of the revival of letters in the field of English history.' Vergil's repudiation of the fables of Geoffrey of Monmouth raised a great outcry against his work, which was completed in 1533. The most valuable portion is the account of the reign of Henry VII. Vergil was an Italian who came to England in or about 1505 as sub-collector of Peter's pence, and who afterwards held various English benefices, returning to Italy in 1550. See F. A. Gasquet, Some Materials for a New Edition of Polydore Vergil's ' History,' Royal Hist. Soc., Trans., new series, 1902, xvi. 1-17. 1855. Versus rhythmici de Henrico Quinto, ed. C. A. Cole, Memorials of Henry V., 61-75. Rolls Series. London, 1858. A eulogy of the character of Henry V., to whose household the writer belonged. 1856. VIGEOIS, GEOFFREY OF (A. 1184). Chronica Gaufridi prioris Vosiensis cœnobii [A.D. 996-1184], ed. Philippe Labbe, Nova Bibliotheca, ii. 279-342. Paris, 1657.-Extracts, ed. Holder-Egger, in Pertz's Scriptores (No. 594), xxvi. 198–203. Hanover, 1882. Completed in 1184. Valuable for the continental policy of Henry II. The author was prior of the abbey of Vigeois. See François Arbellot, Etude Historique et Bibliographique sur Geoffroy de Vigeois, Limoges, etc., 1888, pp. 31. 1857. Vita Edwardi II. [1307-48], ed. William Stubbs, Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I. and Edward II., ii. 155-294. Rolls Series. London, 1883.-Another edition, by Thomas Hearne, Johannis de Trokelowe Annales, 93-250. Oxford, 1729. Valuable for the reign of Edward II.; the best of the three lives of that king edited by Stubbs. Hearne attributed it on insufficient grounds to a monk of Malmesbury. Probably most of it was written toward the close of Edward II.'s reign. The part 1326-48, added later, was taken from Higden's Polychronicon. For a contemporary account of the last years of Edward II., see Lettre de Manuel de Fiesque concernant les Dernières Années d'Edouard II., ed. A. [C.] Germain, Montpellier, 1878, pp. 23. Manuel became bishop of Vercelli in 1343, and died in 1348. The letter, which is addressed to Edward III., is not dated. 1858. Voyage de Nicolas de Bosc évêque de Bayeux pour négocier la paix entre les couronnes de France et d'Angleterre [1381], in Voyage Littéraire de Deux Religieux Bénédictins [by Edmond Martène and Ursin Durand], ii. 307-60. Paris, 1724. Also printed in Kervyn de Lettenhove's edition of Froissart's works, xxiii. 354-75. Brussels, 1876. Written in French. Nicholas was accompanied on his mission by Guillaume de Lestrange, archbishop of Rouen. 1859. WACE (d. circa 1175). Le roman de Brut, ed. A. J. V. Le Roux de Lincy. 2 vols. Rouen, 1836-38.-Le roman de Rou et des ducs de Normandie [from Rollo to 1106], ed. Frédéric Pluquet. 2 vols. and supplement. Rouen, 1827-29.-Another edition (more nearly complete, but not good), by Hugo Andresen, 2 vols., Heilbronn, 1877-79.-Master Wace his chronicle of the Norman conquest, from the Roman de Rou. Translated by Edgar Taylor. London, 1837.-The conquest of England, from Wace's Roman de Rou. Translated into English rhyme, with the text after Pluquet, by Alexander Malet. London, 1860. Two French metrical chronicles. The Roman de Brut, completed in 1155, is partly a translation and partly a paraphrase of Geoffrey of Monmouth's work, and served as the basis of Layamon's Brut (No. 1809). Wace's Roman de Rou (Rollo), written 1160-74, is of much more historical value. His chief sources are Dudo of St. Quentin and William of Jumièges ; probably he also used Malmesbury's Gesta Regum. Freeman (Norman Conquest, v. 581, Oxford, 1876) believes that the Roman de Rou is the most trustworthy narrative of the battle of Hastings, of which Wace gives a very full account; but Round distrusts the historical authority of this chronicle, and urges that it should be used with the greatest caution. Wace was born in Jersey about 1100. See Hardy, Catalogue of Materials, ii. 428-37; Gustav Körting, Ueber die Quellen des Roman de Rou, Leipsic, 1867, pp. 67; Gaston Paris, in Romania, 1880, ix. 592-614; Potthast, Bibliotheca, ii. 1102; J. H. Round, Wace and his Authorities, in Round's Feudal England (London, 1895), 409-18; and Molinier, Sources, ii. no. 1975. 1860. WALLINGFORD, JOHN OF (d. 1258). Cronica [A.D. 449-1035], ed. Thomas Gale, Scriptores XV., 525-50. Oxford, 1691.—Excerpts, 1201-58, ed. Liebermann, in Pertz's Scriptores (No. 594), xxviii. 505-11. Hanover, 1888.-Translated by Joseph Stevenson, Church Historians of England, ii. pt. ii. 521-64: The chronicles of John Wallingford, A.D. 449-1035. London, 1854. A compilation; of no value. The latter part is taken mainly from Matthew Paris. The author was a monk of St. Albans. 1861. *WALSINGHAM, THOMAS (d. circa 1422). Historia Anglicana [1272-1422], ed. H. T. Riley. Rolls Series. 2 vols. London, 1863-64.-Other editions, with the title Historia Brevis ab Edwardo I. ad Henricum V.: [by Matthew Parker], London, 1574; in Camden's Anglica, etc., Scripta, 37-408, Frankfort, 1602 (also 1603).—Ypodigma Neustria [from the first invasions by the Northmen to 1419], ed. H. T. Riley. Rolls Series. London, 1876. Other editions: [by Matthew Parker], London, 1574; in Camden's Anglica, etc., Scripta, 409-592. The earlier portion of the Historia Anglicana is a compilation from other chroniclers; the part 1272-1377 is derived mainly from Hemingburgh, Higden, Rishanger, and Trokelowe. The contemporary account of the years 1377-1422 is original and valuable. It is particularly important for the career of Wyclif, Wat Tyler's revolt, and other events of Richard II.'s reign. Riley believes that the part 1392-1422 was not written by Walsingham. The Ypodigma Neustriæ, or Memorials of Normandy (dedicated to Henry V. in 1419), is a manual of Norman and English history. The earlier part is derived from William of Jumièges, Diceto, Trevet, etc. In this and in his other works Walsingham vilifies the Lollards. For his Gesta Abbatum S. Albani, see No. 2402. He was precentor and scriptorarius,' or principal scribe, of the abbey of St. Albans. In 1394 he was made prior of Wymondham, Norfolk; but he probably returned to St. Albans in 1400. See No. 1745. 1862. WARKWORTH, JOHN (d. 1500). A chronicle of the first thirteen years of the reign of Edward IV. [1461-74], ed. J. O. Halliwell. Camden Soc. London, 1839. pp. 79.-Reprinted, with modernised orthography, in Chronicles of the White Rose of York (No. 1668), 97-142. London, 1845. A short but valuable historical fragment, written in English, contemporaneously with the events narrated, in continuation of a copy of Caxton's Chronicle. It was bequeathed by Warkworth to St. Peter's college, Cambridge, of which he was master, A.D. 1473-1500; its authorship is usually attributed to him, but there is no evidence to prove that he wrote it. The chronicle exhibits a distinct bias in favour of the Lancastrian house. 1863. WAURIN, JEHAN DE (d. circa 1474). Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne [from the earliest times to 1471], ed. William Hardy and E. L. C. P. Hardy. Vol. i., Albina to A.D. 688; vols. ii.-v., 1399-1471. Rolls Series. 5 vols. London, 1864-91.—The part 1325-1471 was edited by L. M. E. Dupont, Société de l'Histoire de France, 3 vols., Paris, 1858-63.--Translated from the French by William Hardy and E. L. C. P. Hardy: A collection of chronicles and ancient histories of Great Britain [from Albina to A.D. 688, and 13991431]. Rolls Series. 3 vols. London, 1864–91. A general collection of the then existing materials of English history. The part to 1413 was completed about 1455; the rest was written in the time of Edward IV. The author made much use of the Chronicle of Brute (No. 1733), and of Froissart and Monstrelet; but from 1444 to 1471 the work is in large part original and contemporary. Waurin belonged to a noble family of Artois. He fought at the battle of Agincourt on the French side, but later he served against the French under the banner of the duke of Burgundy, 1419–35. For other fragments of his chronicles, from a MS. at Vienna, see Bulletin Historique et Philologique du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1892, pp. 49-56. * Flores historiarum English Hist. Soc. [This edition begins 1864. WENDOVER, ROGER OF (d. 1236). [from the creation to 1235], ed. H. O. Coxe. 4 vols. and appendix. London, 1841-44. with the year A.D. 447.]—Another edition, of the part 1154-1235 (badly edited), by H. G. Hewlett, Rolls Series, 3 vols., London, 1886-89.-Excerpts, A.D. 304-1235, ed. Liebermann, in Pertz's Scriptores (No. 594), xxviii. 3-73. Hanover, 1888.-Translated by J. A. Giles Roger of Wendover's Flowers of history, A.D. 4471235. Bohn's Antiquarian Library. 2 vols. London, 1849. ་ Wend A general chronicle relating to the continent as well as to England. Its nucleus was a compilation, extending to 1188, made by John de Cella, abbot of St. Albans (1195-1214). This was continued by Wendover to 1235 and by Matthew Paris to 1259: see No. 1830. Coxe's appendix shows the variations in the texts of Wendover and Paris to 1235. over's work, especially the part 1200-1235, is an original authority of great value. His signal merit as a contemporary chronicler, which atones for many deficiencies, is his fearless frankness of speech without respect of persons.' He was historiographer of the abbey of St. Albans. See Hewlett's introduction; the prefaces to Luard's edition of Matthew Paris's Chronica Majora; and Pertz's Scriptores, xxviii. 3-20. F. M. Powicke, in his paper on Roger of Wendover and the Coggeshall Chronicle (English Historical Review, 1906, xxi. 286-96), shows that Roger of Wendover used Coggeshall (No. 1756) for the years 1187-95 only. 1865. WHETHAMSTEDE, JOHN (d. 1465). Registrum abbatiæ Johannis Whethamstede Roberto Blakeney cappellano quondam |