Part 22 (2/2)

Translated into the English of Wess.e.x, Bede's Ecclesiastical History and other Latin works. Is said to have begun the +Anglo-Saxon Chronicle+.

The University of Oxford is said to have been founded in this reign.

Compiled by monks in various monasteries.

+Anglo-Saxon Chronicle+, 875-1154.

+900+

a.s.sER. Bishop of Sherborne. Died +910+.

+Life of King Alfred+.

+1000+

(_Author unknown._) A poem ent.i.tled +The Grave+.

+1100+

LAYAMON. +1150-1210+. A priest of Ernley-on-Severn.

+The Brut+ (1205), a poem on Brutus, the supposed first settler in Britain.

John ascended the throne in 1199.

ORM or ORMIN. +1187-1237+. A canon of the Order of St Augustine.

+The Ormulum+ (1215), a set of religious services in metre.

+1200+

ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER. +1255-1307+.

+Chronicle of England+ in rhyme (1297).

Magna Charta, 1215.

Henry III. ascends the throne, 1216.

ROBERT OF BRUNNE. (Robert Manning of Brun.) +1272-1340+.

+Chronicle of England+ in rhyme; _Handlyng Sinne_ (1303).

University of Cambridge founded, 1231.

Edward I. ascends the throne, 1272.

Conquest of Wales, 1284.

+1300+

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