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HEMINGBURGH, WALTER OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 258 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEMINGBURGH, See also:WALTER OF , also commonly, but erroneously, called WALTER HEMINGFORD, Latin chronicler of the 14th See also:century, was a See also:canon See also:regular of the See also:Austin priory of Gisburn in See also:Yorkshire. Hence he is sometimes known as Walter of Gisburn (Walterus Gisburnensis). See also:Bale seems to have been the first to give him the name by which he became more commonly known. His See also:chronicle embraces the See also:period of See also:English See also:history from the See also:Conquest (Io66) to the nineteenth See also:year of See also:Edward III., with the exception of the years 1316-1326. It ends with the See also:title of a See also:chapter in which it was proposed to describe the See also:battle of See also:Crecy (1346); but the chronicler seems to have died before the required See also:information reached him. There is, however, some controversy as to whether the later portions which are lacking in some of the See also:MSS. are by him. In compiling the first See also:part, Hemingburgh apparently used the histories of See also:Eadmer, Hoveden, See also:Henry of See also:Huntingdon, and See also:William of See also:Newburgh; but the reigns of the three See also:Edwards are See also:original, composed from See also:personal observation and information. There are several See also:manuscripts of the history extant—the best perhaps being that presented to the See also:College of Arms by the See also:earl of See also:Arundel. The See also:work is correct and judicious, and written in a pleasing See also:style. One of its See also:special features is the preservation in its pages of copies of the See also:great charters, and Hemingburgh's versions have more than once supplied deficiencies and cleared up obscurities in copies from other See also:sources. The first three books were published by See also:Thomas See also:Gale in 1687, in his Historiae Anglicanae scriptores quinque, and the See also:remainder by Thomas See also:Hearne In 1731. The first portion was again published in 1848 by the English See also:Historical Society, under the title Chronicon Walteri de Hemingburgh, vulgo Hemingford nuncupati, de gestis regum Angliae, edited by H.

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Hamilton.

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