Some thirteenth and early fourteenth century Bury chronicles are also in Memorials of St. Edmund’s Abbey, ed.  T. Arnold (vols. ii. and iii., Rolls Series).  The Chronicon de Mailros (Bannatyne Club), from the Cistercian abbey of Melrose, goes to 1270; though utterly untrustworthy, it may be noticed as almost the only Scottish chronicle before the war of independence, and as containing a curious record of the miracles of Simon de Montfort.

Among the historians of Edward I.’s reign is WALTER OF HEMINGBURGH, Canon of Guisborough in Cleveland (ed.  H.C.  Hamilton, 2 vols., Engl.  Hist.  Soc.).  His account of Henry III.’s reign is worthless, but from 1272 to 1312 his work is of great value, though never precise and full of gaps.  It contains many documents and is remarkable for its stirring battle pictures.  Hemingburgh probably laid down his pen when the narrative ceases early in the reign of Edward II.  Another writer, identified by Horstmann with John of Tynemouth, carries the story from 1326 to 1346.

In striking contrast to the flowing periods of Hemingburgh is the well-written and chronologically digested Annals of the Dominican friar NICHOLAS TREVET or TRIVET, the son of a judge of Henry III.’s reign (ed.  Hog, Engl.  Hist.  Soc.).  Beginning in 1138, his work assumes independent value for the latter years of Henry III. and is of first-rate importance for the reign of Edward I., at whose death it concludes, though Trevet was certainly alive in 1324.  It was largely used by the later St. Alban’s chroniclers.

Franciscan historiography begins earlier than Dominican with the remarkable tract of THOMAS OF ECCLESTON, written about 1260, De Adventu Fratrum Minorum in Anglia, published with other Minorite documents (including Adam Marsh’s letters) in BREWER’S Monumenta Franciscana (Rolls Series, continued in a second volume by R. Hewlett).  The first important Franciscan chronicle, called the Chronicon de Lanercost (ed.  J. Stevenson, Bannatyne Club, 2 vols.), really comes from the Minorite convent of Carlisle.  It covers the years 1201 to 1346.  The early part is derived from the valueless chronicle of Melrose, and its incoherent cult of the memory of Montfort does not save it from the grossest errors in dealing with his history.  It becomes important for northern affairs from Edward I. onwards, giving full details with a strong anti-Scottish bias.  Another north-country chronicle is Sir T. GREY’S Scalacronica (ed.  Stevenson, Maitland Club, 1836), useful for the Scottish wars and for Edward III.’s reign up to 1362.