Note 313 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 4)

"Henrici Archidiaconi Huntendunensis Historia Anglorum ... from a.c. 55 to a.d. 1154," ed. T. Arnold, Rolls, 1879, 8vo. Henry writes much more as a dilettante than William of Malmesbury; he seems to do it mainly to please himself; clever at verse writing (see above, p. 177), he introduces in his Chronicle Latin poems of his own composition. His chronology is vague and faulty.