Wharton speaks of "Historiae
de regibus Anglorum, de Pontificibus Romanis, et de Imperatoribus
Romanis," as found together with the chronicle of the archibishops of
Canterbury; both in the Lambeth MS. and in another formerly in the
possession of William Reede, Bishop of Chichester: and he was inclined
to attribute the whole to the pen of Birchington.
6. "Gesta Scotorum contra Anglicos:"--commencing in 1066, with the times
of Malcolm, king of Scotland, and ending in 1346, with the capture of
David II., and the calamitous defeat of the Scots near Durham.
At the commencement of the volume are found some miscellaneous writings
of less interesting character. I noticed, however, an entry relating to
the foundation of a chapel at "Ocolte," now written Knockholt, in Kent,
by Ralph Scot, who had erected a mansion remote from the parish church,
and obtained license for the consecration of the chapel in the year
1281, in the time of Archbishop Kilwareby.
The writing of the MS. appears to be of the latter half of the
fourteenth century. Possibly there may be reader of these "NOTES AND
QUERIES," more familiar with such inquiries than myself, who may have
examined other contemporary MSS. of the compilations of Stephen
Birchington. I shall be thankful for any information regarding them, and
especially as regards the existence of any transcript of the Canterbury
Annals, extended beyond the year 1368, with which this copy as well as
that used by Wharton closes; whilst he supposes that in the chronicle as
cited by Jocelin, chaplain to Matthew Parker, they had been carried as
far as the year 1382.
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