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These are: Opus Chronicorum, 1259-1296, a source of "Rishanger's" chronicle; J. DE TROKELOWE'S Annales, 1307-1322; H. DE BLANEFORDE'S Chronica . These last two are important for Edward II.'s reign. After these works, historical writing further declined at St. Alban's. At the end of our period, however, another true disciple of Matthew Paris was found in the St.
Anstey under the name of "Munimenta Academica." With the close of Henry's reign our directly historic materials become scantier and scantier. The portion of the so-called "Walsingham's History" which relates to this period is now attributed by Mr. Riley to Rishanger's hand. For the wars in the north and in the west we have no records from the side of the conquered.
For the Barons' war we have besides these the royalist chronicle of Wykes, Rishanger's fragment published by the Camden Society, and a chronicle of Bartholomew de Cotton, which is contemporary from 1264 to 1298. Where the chronicles fail however the public documents of the realm become of high importance. Our municipal history during this period is fully represented by that of London.
Alban's history from 1327 to 1377. In the reign of Edward I. the credit of the school of St. Rishanger's authorship of the portion 1259-1272 is more probable than that of the section 1272-1306, which, not compiled before 1327, is almost certainly by another hand, and the attribution of even the earlier section to Rishanger is doubted by so competent an authority as M. Bémont.
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