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THOMAS WYKES

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 871 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS
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WYKES
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English chronicler, was a
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canon
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regular of Oseney Abbey, near Oxford . He was the author of a chronicle extending from Io66 to 1289, which is printed among the monastic annals edited by H . R . Luard for the " Rolls " Series . He gives an account of the barons' war from a royalist standpoint, and is a severe critic of Montfort's policy . He is of some value for the reign of
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Edward I . His
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work is closely connected with the Oseney Annals, which are printed parallel with his work by Luard, but from 1258 to 1278
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Wykes is an
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independent authority . See H . R . Luard's Annales monastici, vol. iv . (1869) ; and earlier edition in Gale's Scriptores quinque, pp . 21-128 .

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