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SIR THOMAS GRAY (d. c. 1369)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 392 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS See also:GRAY (d. c. 1369)  , See also:English chronicler, was a son of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Gray, who was taken prisoner by the Scots at See also:Bannockburn and who died about 1344 . The younger Thomas was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Neville's See also:Cross in 1346; in 1355, whilst acting as See also:warden of Norham See also:Castle, he was made a prisoner, and during his captivity in See also:Edinburgh Castle he devoted his See also:time to studying the English chroniclers, See also:Gildas, See also:Bede, Ranulf See also:Higdon and others . Released in 1357 he was appointed warden of the See also:east See also:marches towards See also:Scotland in 1367, and he died about 1369 . Gray's See also:work, the Scalacronica (so called, perhaps, from the scaling-See also:ladder in the See also:crest of the Grays), is a See also:chronicle of English See also:history from the earliest times to about the See also:year 1362 . It is, however, only valuable for the reigns of See also:Edward I. and Edward II. and See also:part of that of Edward III., being especially so for the See also:account of the See also:wars between See also:England and Scotland, in which the author's See also:father and the author himself took part . See also:Writing in See also:Norman-See also:French, Gray tells of See also:Wallace and See also:Bruce, of the fights at Bannockburn, Byland and Dupplin, and makes some mention of the troubles in England during the reign of Edward II . He also narrates the course of the See also:war in See also:France between 1355 and 1361; possibly he was present during some of these See also:campaigns . The Scalacronica was summarized by See also:John See also:Leland in the 16th See also:century; the part dealing with the See also:period from 1o66 to the end, together with the See also:prologue, was edited for the See also:Maitland See also:Club by J . See also:Stevenson (1836) ; and the part from 1274 to 1362 was translated into English by Sir See also:Herbert See also:Maxwell (See also:Glasgow, 1907) . In the extant See also:manuscript, which is in Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Cambridge, there a See also:gap extending from about 134o to 1355, and Gray's account of this period is only known from Leland's See also:summary .

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