PKEFACE. The fourth and concluding volume of the Ann ales Contents of MONASTioi contains the Annals of Osney, the chro- Yolume/ nicle known by the name of Thomas "Wykes or Wires, and the Annals of Worcester. The Annals of Osney, a monastery founded in the Annals of island of that name at Oxford for Augustinian canons (jotton'. by Robert d'Oyly in 1129, are now printed for the first Tiberius time from the single MS. containing them in the Cotton Collection in the 'British Museum. The only writers who seem to have known of them are Anthony Wood, who has made frequent and good use of this MS. in the earlier portion of his history of the University of Oxford,^ and Thomas Gale, who, besides printing what it possesses in common with the MS. Cotton. Titus A. 14, Las given from it the history of the years 1289-1307, in i)p. 118-128 of the volume entitled HistoriEe Angli- cance Soriptores Quinque, as a continuation of the chronicle of Thomas Wykes. The whole of the chronicle which goes under the Thomas name of Thomas Wykes, or rather the whole that is ^J^f*"' MS.Cotton. Titus A. 14. ' He cites it (^e.(/. p. 45) by the title, " Chron. Tho. Wyke, canonici " Osniensis, MS." This has fre- quently puzzled his readers, as many of the passages quoted are not in the chronicle which Gale printed under the name of Thomas Wykes.
