For the early years of Henry III. we have besides Wendover’s Flores:  (i) The CANON OF BARNWELL’S continuation of Howden published in STUBBS’S Memoriale Fratris Walteri de Coventria (Rolls Series), written in 1227 and copious for the years 1216-1225. (2) RALPH OF COGGESHALL’s Chronicon Anglicanum (ed.  Stevenson, Rolls Series), ending at 1227 and important for its last twelve years. (3) The Histoire des Ducs de Normandie et des Rois d’Angleterre, which, published by F. Michel in 1840 (Soc. de l’histoire de France), was first appreciated at its full value by M. Petit-Dutaillis in the Revue Historique. tome 2 (1892). (4) The Chronique de l’Anonyme de Bethune printed in 1904 in vol. xxiv. of the Recueil des Historiens de la France. (5) A French rhyming chronicle, the Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal, discovered and edited by P. Meyer for the Soc. de l’histoire de France.  Written by a minstrel of the younger Marshal from materials supplied by the regent’s favourite squire, it is, though poetry and panegyric, an important source for Marshal’s regency.

St. Alban’s was not the only religious house that concerned itself with the production of chronicles.  Other Annales Monastici have been edited in five volumes (Rolls Series, vol. v. is the index) by Dr. Luard.  They are of special importance for the reign of Henry III.  In vol. i. the meagre annals of the Glamorganshire abbey of Margam only extend to 1232.  The Annals of Tewkesbury are useful from 1200 to 1263, and specially for the history of the Clares, the patrons of that house.  The Annals of Burton-upon-Trent illustrate the years 1211 to 1261 with somewhat intermittent light, and are of unique value for the period of the Provisions of Oxford, containing many official documents.  Vol. ii. includes the Annals of Winchester and Waverley.  The former, extending to 1277, though mainly concerned with local affairs are useful for certain parts of the reign of Henry III., and particularly for the years 1267-1277.  The annals of the Cistercian house of Waverley, near Farnham, go down to 1291.  From 1259 to 1266 the narrative is contemporary and valuable; from 1266 to 1275, and partly from 1275 to 1277 it is borrowed from the Winchester Annals; from 1277 to its abrupt end it is again of importance.  The Annals of Bermondsey in vol. iii. are a fifteenth century compilation.  The Annals of the Austin canons of Dunstable are of great value, especially from the year 1201, when they become original, down to 1242.  This section is written by RICHARD DE MORINS, prior of Dunstable from 1202 to 1242.  After his death the annals become more local, though they give a clear narrative of the puzzling period 1258-1267.  They stop in 1297.  The chief contents of vol. iv, are the parallel Annals of Oseney and the Chronicle of THOMAS WYKES, a canon of that house, who took the religious habit in 1282.  To 1258 the two histories