xiv PREFACE. have been held in S. Martin's church instead of S. Paul's. After the battle of Lewes the parliament held against the Marchers is said by Osney (p. 154) to have been at Oxford, by Wykes (p. 159) at London, — that one says the king and the other Simon de Montfort summoned the parliament is of course due to their respective sympathies ; Osney states that the Marchers were banished for a year and a day, their families and lands remaining in the hands of the barons (p. 157) ; Wykes that they were banished for three years into Ireland, but adds that the earl of Gloucester connived at their staying in his lands in spite of the order (p. 159). In 1267 (p. 205), when civil war had almost broken out again, Osney mentions Philip Basset as one of the mediators with the king of Germany between the king and the London citizens ; Wykes gives John Basset as the person. In p. 245 the Osney annalist is ignorant of the name of the archdeaconry held by pope Gregory X. before his con- secration, though Wykes gives it there (p. 246), and the Osney annalist knew it shortly before (p. 219). On the other hand (in p. 247) he knows the exact day of Philip Basset's death (Oct. 29), while Wykes can only say that he died about S. Andrew's day (ib.) In the later portions there are several conclusive points of evidence that Osney is the earlier of the two MSS. ; for instance, the account of Llewellyn's death in 1281 (p. 291) is clearly abridged by Wykes from the other (as indeed would seem to be the whole of this portion of the chronicle), Wykes beginning the new year (1282) in his usual style, and mentioning his own profession, and then abridging as before. Conclusion The conclusion to which I have come from these and draAvnfrom other instances of similarity and dissimilarity in the two as to the chronicles is as follows. The earlier portion of the of^heTwo ^'^^^^® °* Osney was wiitten at Osney about the year chronicles. 1233, and then the events of each year were written from
