See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

FLORENCE OF See also:

• WORCESTER
• WORCESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• WORCESTER, JOHN TIPTOFT, EARL OF (1427—1470)
• WORCESTER, WILLIAM (c. 1415-c. 1482)

WORCESTER (d. 1 x18)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English chronicler, was a See also:

• MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
• MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
• MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
• MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)

monk of See also:

• WORCESTER
• WORCESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• WORCESTER, JOHN TIPTOFT, EARL OF (1427—1470)
• WORCESTER, WILLIAM (c. 1415-c. 1482)

Worcester, who died, as we learn from his continuator, on the 7th of See also:

• JULY

July 1118 . Beyond this fact nothing is known of his See also:

• LIFE

life . He compiled a See also:

• CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

chronicle called Chronicon ex chronicis which begins with the creation and ends in 1117 . The basis of his See also:

• WORK

work was a chronicle compiled by Marianus Scotus, an Irish recluse, who lived first at See also:

• FULDA

Fulda, afterwards at See also:

• MAINZ (Fr. Mayence)

Mainz . Marianus, who began his work after Io69, carried it up to 1082 . See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence supplements Marianus from a lost version of the English Chronicle, and from See also:

• ASSER, or ASSERIUS MENEVENSIS (d. c. 910)

Asser . He is always See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth comparing with the extant English See also:

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

Chronicles; and from i Io6 he is an See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent annalist, dry but accurate . Either Florence or a later editor of his work made considerable borrowings from the first four books of See also:

• EADMER, or EDMER (c. 1o6o-c. 1124)

Eadmer's .Historia novorum . Florence's work is continued, up to 1141, by a certain See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John of Worcester, who wrote about 1150 . John is valuable for the latter years of See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry I. and the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early years of See also:

• STEPHEN
• STEPHEN (1097?-1154)
• STEPHEN (ISTVAN) BATHORY (1533-1586)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES (1789-1859)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES, BART
• STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE (1832-1904)

Stephen . He is friendly to Stephen, but not an indiscriminate See also:

• PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

partisan . The first edition of these two writers is that of 1592 (by See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• HOWARD (FAMILY)
• HOWARD, CATHERINE (d. 1542)
• HOWARD, JOHN (1726-1790)
• HOWARD, LORD WILLIAM (1563–1640)
• HOWARD, OLIVER OTIS (1830-19o9)
• HOWARD, SIR ROBERT (1626–1698)

Howard) .

The most accessible is that of B . See also:

• THORPE [or TnoRP], JOHN (/l. 1570-1618)
• THORPE, BENJAMIN (1782-1870)

Thorpe (Eng . Hist . See also:

• SOC

Soc., 2 vols., 1848–1849) ; but Thorpe's See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text of John's continuation needs revision . Thorpe gives, without explanations, the insertions of an See also:

• ILL

ill-informed See also:

• GLOUCESTER
• GLOUCESTER (abbreviated as pronounced Glo'ster)
• GLOUCESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF (1243-1295)
• GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE, EARL OF (1222-1262)
• GLOUCESTER, ROBERT, EARL OF (d. 1147)
• GLOUCESTER, THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE

Gloucester monk who has obscured the accurate See also:

• CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of time, xp6vos)

chronology of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original . Thorpe also prints a continuation by John Taxter (died c . 1295), a 13th-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century writer and a monk of See also:

• BURY
• BURY, JOHN BAGNELL (1861- )

Bury St See also:

• EDMUNDS, GEORGE FRANKLIN (1828– )

Edmunds . Florence and John of Worcester are translated by J . See also:

• STEVENSON, ADLA1 EWING (1835- )
• STEVENSON, ROBERT (1772-1850)
• STEVENSON, ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR (1850-1894)

Stevenson in his Ckurch Historians of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, vol. ii. pt. i . (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1853) ; T . Forester's See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation in See also:

• BOHN, HENRY GEORGE (1796-1884)

Bohn's Antiquarian Library (London, 1854) gives the work of Taxter also . (H .

W, C .