![]() ![]() Quite a few of these and other late medieval manuscript chronicles were continued into the print era by later chroniclers and printers such as William Caxton, Richard Grafton, and John Stow who saw the genre’s popularity as a worthwhile investment. Alban’s Chronicle, The Chronicle of John Hardyng, and The Brut chronicle. However, there are many medieval manuscript chronicles, with some of the more famous and long-lasting English examples being the Chronicles of London, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, the Croyland Chronicle, Jean Froissart’s Chronicle, Thomas Walsingham’s Historia Anglicana, the St. ![]() The preface to the reader in The Chronicle of John Hardyng (1543) states that “None haue behynde theim, left so greate treasure…As thei whiche haue taken peines to write Chronicles and actes” so that “By Chronicles we knowe, in eche countree / What menne have been” since “Chronicles dooe recorde and testifie…dooe kepe in continuall memorie…that Englishe men might haue understanding / Of all affaires, touchyng their owne countree.” While this refers to chronicles as created in manuscript form by “thei which haue taken peines to write”-which Hardyng’s chronicle originally was-this particular work was printed in London in the sixteenth century. ![]()
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