Excerpt from The Church Historians of England, Vol. 2: Part I; Containing the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Chronicle of Florence of Worcester, With a Continuation and Appendix Library Of Corpus Christi College at Cambridge, having formed a portion of the valuable collections of Archbishop Parker which he presented to that society. It is now numbered clxxiii. It is written upon vellum, in double columns, as far as a.d. 417, at folio 9 but after that date, in a single column. It extends from the time of Julius Caesar to the year 1070. The original handwriting ends with the year 891 and from that point onwards the entries have been made from time to time by a variety of scribes, specimens of whose writing may be seen in plates xxiii. And xxiv. Of Petrie and Hardy's Monumenta Historica. From the fact of the first portion of this copy exhibiting some philological peculiarities which indicate a modi fied Anglian dialect, we may assume that it had its origin in the kingdom of Mercia, although, at the same time, its earlier entries relate chiefly to incidents which have no exclusive connexion with that kingdom. An alteration in the range of its information takes place about ad. 806, after which date it becomes much more general. Many passages have been inserted from a copy correspond ing with ms. E, and in several places it agrees closely with that marked G. Its uniformity with C in some points is also worthy of notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.