ADAM

See also:

• ADAM MURIMUTH (c. 1274-1347)

MURIMUTH (c. 1274-1347)  , English ecclesiastic and chronicler, was born in 1274 or 1275 and educated. in the civil law at Oxford . Between 1312 and 1318 he practised in the papal curia at Avignon . Edward II. and Archbishop Winchelsey were among his clients, and his legal services secured for him canonries at Hereford and St Paul's, and the precentorship of Exeter Cathedral . In 1331 he retired to a country living (Wraysbury, Bucks), and devoted himself to writing the history of his own times . His Continuatio chronicarum, begun not earlier than 1325, starts from the year 1303, and was carried up to 1347, the year of his death . Meagre at first, it becomes fuller about 1340 and is specially valuable for the history of the French wars . Murimuth has no merits of style, and gives a bald narrative of events . But he incorporates many documents in the latter part of his book . The annals of St . Paul's whidh have been edited by Bishop Stubbs, are closely related to the work of Murimuth, but probably not from his pen . The Continuatio was carried on, after his death, by an anonymous writer to the year 1380 . The only complete edition of the Continuatio chronicarum is that by E .

M .

Thompson (Rolls series, 1889) . The preface to this edition, and to W . Stubbs's Chronicles of Edward I. and II., vol. i . (Rolls series, 1882), should be consulted . The anonymous continuation is printed in T . Hog's edition of Murimuth (Eng . Hist . Soc., London, 1846) . (H . W . C .