Kervyn de Lettenhove’s complete edition (vols.  XX.-XXV.) are still of immense use, though his text and comments are inferior to those of Luce, Froissart’s spirit may well be caught in Lord Berners’s racy English translation (Tudor Translations), or in G.C.  Macaulay’s useful abridgment.  The three redactions of Froissart’s first book (from 1327 to 1373-1377), which is all that concerns our period, have been clearly distinguished by Luce. (1) The first edition, written about 1373, at the request of Count Robert of Namur, is inspired by an English bias.  Up to 1360 it is largely derived from the chronicle of JEAN LE BEL, Canon of St. Lambert of Liege; after that date it is original. (2) The second edition, only represented by two MSS., of which one is incomplete, is a modification of the first with a French bias.  The earlier part is more independent of Jean le Bel. (3) The third edition, preserved in a single MS., ends with the death of Philip VI in 1350, and, written after 1400, is even more hostile to England than the second.  The best edition of Jean le Bel is by Polain for the Academie royale de Belgique.

A few of the more important French chronicles after 1328 may be mentioned shortly. (1) Grands Chroniques de France (ed.  Paulin Paris).  Original from 1350 to 1377, a work of first-rate importance, where, if truth is altered, it is altered deliberately from political motives. (2) JEAN DE VENETTE, 1340-1368, written with a popular bias, and partly favourable to Charles of Navarre (edited as a supplement to Geraud’s edition of Guillaume de Nangis, ii., 178-378, Soc. de l’Hist. de France). (3) Chronique Normande du xiv’e siecle, 1337-1372 (ed.  Molinier, Soc. de l’Hist. de France, 1882), exact and very important for the wars 1337 to 1372. (4) Chronique des quatre premiers Valois (Soc. de l’Hist. de France). (5) CUVELIER’S poetical Vie de Bertrand du Guesclin (2 vols., Doc. inedits).  Further details can be found in Molinier’s bibliography.  Netherlandish sources for the Hundred Years’ War are summarised in PIRENNE’S Bibliographie de l’Histoire de Belgique (1895).  Of special importance is JAN VAN KLERK’S Van den Derden Edewaert Rym Kronyk. (1840), useful for 1337-1341, and written with an English bias.

The unofficial legal literature of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is of exceptional variety and value.  Many lawyers’ treatises throw light on matters far beyond legal technicalities.  HENRY OF BRACTON or BRATTON’S De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae illustrates the union of English and Roman juridical ideas characteristic of the age of Henry III.  It has been edited badly by Sir T. Twiss in six volumes (Rolls Series), and some portions well by Professor Maitland in his Select passages from Bracton and Azo (Selden Soc.).  Maitland’s Bracton’s Note Book includes extracts from plea rolls seemingly made by Bracton.  Bracton’s book on the laws was translated, condensed,