are very similar, that of Wykes being slightly fuller.  They then remain distinct until 1278, and again from 1280 to 1284 and 1285-1289.  In the latter year Wykes stops, while Oseney goes on with independent value until 1293, and as a useless compilation till 1346.  Wykes is of unique interest for the Barons’ Wars, as he is the only competent chronicler who takes the royalist side.  The Oseney writer, much less full and interesting, represents the ordinary baronial standpoint.  Wykes is occasionally useful for the first years of Edward I.; after 1288 his importance becomes small.  The Annals of Worcester are largely a compilation from the Winchester Annals and the Flores; the local insertions have some value for the period 1216-1258, and more for the latter part of the reign of Edward I., at whose death they end.

Other monastic chronicles of the thirteenth century, of small importance, enumerated by Dr. Luard (Ann.  Mon., iv., liii.) are not yet printed in full.  Extracts from many are given in PERTZ’S Monumenta Germaniae Hist.  Scriptores, vols. xxvii. and xxviii.  The Annales Cestrienses (to 1297) have been edited by R.C.  Christie (Record Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire); EDMUND OF HADENHAM’S Chronicle (down to 1307) is given in part in WHARTON’S Anglia Sacra, and M. Bemont publishes in an appendix to his Simon de Montfort (pp. 373-380) a valuable fragment of a Chronicle of Battle Abbey on the Barons’ Wars, 1258-1265.  For the latter part of that period we have some useful notices in HENRY OF SILEGRAVE’s brief Chronicle (ed.  Hook, Caxton Soc., 1849), whose close relationship to the Battle Chronicle M. Bemont has first indicated.  To these may be added the Annals of Stanley Abbey (1202-1271) in vol. ii. of Chronicles of Stephen, Henry II. and Richard I. (ed.  Hewlett, Rolls Series, 1885), and the Chronicle of the Bury monk, JOHN OF TAXSTER or TAYSTER, which becomes copious from the middle of the thirteenth century and ends in 1265; it was partly printed in 1849 by Benjamin Thorpe as a continuation of Florence of Worcester (English Historical Society), and the years 1258-1262 are best read in Luard’s edition of Bartholomew Cotton (Rolls Series).  Taxster’s work became the basis of several later compilations of the eastern counties, including:  (i) JOHN OF EVERSDEN, another Bury monk, independent from 1265 to 1301, also printed without his name by Thorpe, up to 1295, as a further continuation of Florence. (2) JOHN OF OXNEAD, a monk of St. Benet’s, Hulme, a reputed continuator of Taxster and Eversden up to 1280, who adds a good deal of his own for the years 1280-1293, edited somewhat carelessly by Sir Henry Ellis as Chronica J. de Oxenedes (Rolls Series). (3) BARTHOLOMEW COTTON, a monk of Norwich, whose Historia Anglicana, original from 1291 to 1298, and specially important from 1285 to 1291, is edited by Luard (Rolls Series).