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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
[The intent of the second Part, as regards Bristol, is shown in the prologue (before, p. 4), and in the paragraph above. It carries on the general history from the Norman Conquest, 1066, till the death of John, occupying forty leaves (fos. 20b to 59a). It mainly consists of a yearly chronicle of events, political, ecclesiastical, and general, and is for the most part translated and abridged from the Chronicle of Matthew of Westminster, in many places following his language very closely. A few passages bear traces of the writer's having had recourse to other sources, among which Roger of Wendover may have been one ; he also inserts here and there facts relating to ecclesiastical affairs not to be found in his original. But we find less allusion than might be expected to the share that Bristol had in past affairs, or to the illustrious personages who were at times within her walls, little in fact beyond the imprisonment of King Stephen in the Tower of Bristowe in 1140, and the imprisonment and death in the Castle of Eleanor, sister to Arthur, and niece to King John.
Page 17 note * On the opposite page, being folio 21a, is the picture of William Conqueror. (See Introduction.)
Page 17 note † The Chronicle of Thomas Wikes, which is the authority for the confinement of Eleanor, does not mention the place, nor the fact of her death in prison. See also Seyer's Memoirs of Bristol, i. 525.
Page 18 note * The monks of Cranburn moved to the Abbey of Tewkesbury in 1102, after the enlargements made there in that year by Robert. See Leland, Itin. vi. 82; Mon. Ang. (ed. 1819) ii. 53.
Page 19 note * Robert died in 1107. Henry I. also held the honour for six years after the death of Earl William, from 1183—1189.
Page 19 note † The writer here, evidently not understanding the foreign title of Consul (i.e. comes, earl), has used it as a surname.
Page 19 note ‡ The greater part of the foregoing paragraph, down to this word, is quoted by Seyer, Mem. of Bristol, i. pp. 342, 349, 350.
Page 19 note § This is a mistake; William Earl of Gloucester died in 1183, and his daughter was not married to John till 1189. See the history of this marriage in Seyer, Mem. of Bristol, i. 490, 498—505.
Page 20 note * This paragraph begins with fresher ink, as though the worthy chronicler had grown weary and left off for a time: then beginning afresh he found he had made an error, and hastens to correct it at †
Page 20 note † A part of the two following paragraphs has been printed by Seyer, Memoirs of Bristol, vol. i. pp. 465, 406.
Page 21 note * A.-S. hyrnes, what is obedient, a province or lordship. In the Saxon Chronicle, Beorclca hyrnesse is translated by Mr. Thorpe “the district of Berkeley.” Rolls ed. vol. ii. p. 192.
Page 22 note * End of fol. 28b. At the top of next page is the picture of W. Rufus.
Page 23 note * Under the date 1142 is the entry “In August was foundid the religeous of reguler Chanons of the churche of Brewton.”
Page 23 note † See the last extract.
Page 24 note * “Nemo capiat hospitium infra muros” in the original Latin of John's Charter. Seyer's Charters of Bristol, p. 6.