Stowe MS 63

THE CHRONICLE Of Walter Hemingburgh (al. Hemingford, al. Walter de Gisburne), from the Conquest to 1312, in Latin. The first leaf has been cut out; the second begins with the words "Normannie clam direxit" (ed. Hamilton, vol. i. p. 6). Ends "terra siluit et quievit" (ibid., vol. ii. p. 296). After the history are three appendices, one entitled "Regna Britannie sibi deinceps succedentia," giving a list of the successive governments of England, and a description of the seven kingdoms of the Heptarchy (f. 177); the second, "de episcopis maioris Britannie sive Anglie et eorum sedibus positis et translatis" (ff. 178-180); the third, a list of the nine principal rivers of England (f. 180 b). Colophon, "Scriptum manu mea Rogeri Dalyson olim hic scholastici gremialis," 1533 (? Roger Dallison, Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge, 1523, Canon of Lincoln 1554, ob. 1566). On the fly-leaf (f. 1b) is an index to the beginnings of reigns, and in a later hand the title "Gualteri Hemyngford canonici Gisburnensis Historia Regum Anglorum a Gulielmo I. usque ad annum 6 Edw. II., viz. ab an. 1066 ad an. 1312." The Chronicle has been edited by Gale (1687), with completion by Hearne (1731), and by H. C. Hamilton (English Historical Society, 1848), but without mention of this MS. Vellum; ff. 180. A.D. 1533. With titles and initials of chapters in red. On f. 1b is the inscription (16th cent.) "Edm. Hayes Emptus apud Windsor novam"; and on f. 2 is the name of Sir Henry Spelman, which is repeated on the inside of the cover with the addition "precium xx^s." Quarto.

Walter Hemingburgh, alias Hemingford: Chronicle, with appendices: 1533.

England General Chronicles and History: Walter Hemingburgh, Chronicle, to 1312: 1533.

Roger Dalyson, alias Dallison; Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Canon of Lincoln (?): Wrote: in 1533.