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 unfortunate prince; and may, as conjectured by Wanley (p. 199), have originally belonged to MS. Cott. Tiberius A. ., which it not only resembles in its orthography and the form of its letters, but, like that manuscript, ends just before the murder of Eadward, A.D. 977: it is, therefore, inserted in the present edition immediately after that date.

"The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first published, under the title of 'Chronologia Anglo-Saxonica,' by Abraham Wheloc, at Cambridge, in the year 1644, in folio, with a Latin translation. His text was taken from the Cottonian Manuscript, Otho B. ., collated with the Corpus Christi Manuscript, ."

"It was next edited by Edmund Gibson, afterwards Bishop of London, at Oxford, in the year 1692, in quarto. In addition to Wheloc's text, Gibson used the Bodleian Manuscript, Laud. 636, and copies of the Cottonian, Tiberius A. . and Domitian A. . Besides giving a new Latin version of his text, greatly enlarged, he added a preface, notes, and indexes, glossarial and chronological."

"The latest edition was published at London in 1823, in quarto, by the Reverend James Ingram, B.D., afterwards President of Trinity College, Oxford. Dr. Ingram collated all the known manuscripts, among which were two in the Cottonian collection (viz., Tiber. B. . and Tiber. B. .) not employed by Gibson; and of his text, thus considerably enlarged, he gave an English version, together with a preface, notes, indexes of persons and places, and a brief grammar of the Anglo-Saxon language."

An edition to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, down to the date of the Norman conquest, is included in the 'Monumenta Historica Britannica' published in the year 1848, in folio, by Royal authority. This edition, with an English translation, is by the late eminent