. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. dings. Theysuggested, however, that the preface to each work shouldcontain, in addition to the particulars proposed by theMaster of the Rolls, a biographical account of the author,so far as authentic materials existed for that purpose, andan estimate of his historical credibihty and value. In compliance with the order of the Treasury, theMaster of the Rolls has selected for publication for thepresent year such works as he considered best calculatedto fill up the chasms existing in the printed materials ofEnglish history ; and of these works the present is on
. Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon. dings. Theysuggested, however, that the preface to each work shouldcontain, in addition to the particulars proposed by theMaster of the Rolls, a biographical account of the author,so far as authentic materials existed for that purpose, andan estimate of his historical credibihty and value. In compliance with the order of the Treasury, theMaster of the Rolls has selected for publication for thepresent year such works as he considered best calculatedto fill up the chasms existing in the printed materials ofEnglish history ; and of these works the present is one. Eolls Hotise, December 1857. CHRONICON MONASTERII DE ABINGDON. EDITED THE REV. JOSEPH STEVENSON, , OP DNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DURHAM, ANDVICAR OF LEIGUTOX BUZZARD. rUllLtSIIED BY THE AUTnORITY OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF IIKR JIAJESTY!TREASURY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE JJASTER OF THE ROLLS. VOL. II. FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST UNTIL THE ACCESSIONOF RICHARD THE FIRST. LONDON:LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LOXGHTANP, AND ROBERTS. 1858. /. JAN 2 0 1950I54G7 II Prinred by Etui? and Spotttswoode, Her Majestys Pnatovs. For Her IMajcstys Stationery Ollice. PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE CimONICLE OE ABINGDON. § 1. In the Preface to the former volume of this The , nothing more was afforded me than tlie 3^^,^^^^^.opportunity of touching—and that very passingly,—upon such matters as seemed, from their import-ance, to demand an immediate explanation. Itwas necessary that upon the very tln-eshold cf thework, the reader should be furnished with somegeneral outline of its contents, and he made ac-quainted, however briefly, with the leading aim andobject of the Chronicle of Abingdon, its sources ofinformation, its credibility, and the claims which itpossesses upon the notice of the student of our earlynational history. To this scanty outline I was un-w^illingly constrained to limit my remarks. To haveadvanced further than this before the publication ofthe entire work would
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