[20] Orderic Vitalis, b. 1075; d. 1150. Of Abbey of St. Evroult, in Normandy. An edition of his Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy was published in 1826, with notice of writer, by Guizot.
[21] William of Malmsbury: dates uncertain; his record terminates with year 1143.
[22] Matthew Paris, 1200-1259, a monk of St. Albans. His Historia Major extends from 1235 to 1259.
[23] William of Newburgh, b. 1136; d. 1208. New edition of his record (Hist. Rerum Anglicarum), edited by Richard Howlet, published in 1884.
[24] Roger de Hoveden of twelfth century, (date uncertain.) His annals first published in 1595.
[25] I do not mean to say that Scott’s portraitures may be taken as archæologic data, or that one in search of the last and minutest truths respecting our Welsh or Saxon progenitors should not go to more recondite sources; meantime you will get very much from the reading of Scott to aid you in forming an image of those times; and, what is better still, you will very likely carry from the Romancer’s glowing pages a sharpened appetite for the more careful but duller work of the historians proper.
[26] I give fragment of one, of the reign of Edward II., cited by Mr. Marsh: p. 247, English Language and Early Literature.
“Quant honme deit parleir, videat qua verba loquatur;
Sen covent aver, ne stultior inveniatur,
Quando quis loquitur, bote resoun reste therynne