Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.28; Matheson, Brut pp. 323–4.

[1]

f. 1

… can non other but fle a shepe before wolves and the see becompasseth you alle about that when youre enemes cometh other ye fle and be drounde othir lye stille and be slayne and also the romaynes wille no more helpe us for we haue fulle eville quytt hem their trauaylle for they wille rather …

f. 142v

… allas howe myght this be and hir two bretherne were kynges and they had but one sustre allas [f. 143] where was loue whenne suche domes were demede.

Running header (f. 1): ‘kynge gratian’ (f. 1); ‘kynge henry thred’ (f. 143). Imperfect prose paraphrase of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle; Wells Rev. 8:2807 [5].

Other texts: Wells Rev. notes another version in Cologny-Genève Bibliotheca Bodmeriana Cod Bodmer 43 ff. 3–103v.

[2]

f. 143

And in the meane tyme dyede kyng henry at westmynstre when he had bene kynge lv yere and xix wekes uppon seynt edmundes daye and he was entierede at westmynstre upon seynt edmundes daye the kynge in the yere of the incarnacion of oure lorde iesu crist a m cc xlxxij on whos soule god haue mercy amen …

f. 225v

… and drewe their cours northwarde and aryuede in yorkeshire at ravynsporne fast by wydlyngtoun and there he entred the londe …

Brut, Peculiar Version. Begins with the death of Henry III (Brie 177/6–8); ends imperfectly (Brie 357/25–26). IPMEP 374; Wells Rev. 8:2818–33 [10].

Other texts: Matheson, Brut lists 203 MSS. See Ee.4.31 [4].

s. xv.