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Stevenson
unprinted Documents … illustrative of the History of Scotland,’ 1842.

For the Bannatyne Club he edited:

  1. ‘Chronica de Mailros,’ 1835
  2. ‘Chronicon de Lanercost,’ 1839.

For the English Historical Society he edited:

  1. ‘Chronicon Ricardi Divisiensis de Gestis Ricardi I,’ 1838.V‘Gildas de Excidio Britanniæ,’ 1838.
  2. ‘Nennii Historia Britonum,’ 1838.
  3. ‘Venerabilis Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica … et Opera Historica Minora,’ 1838–41.

For the Roxburghe Club he edited:

  1. ‘The Owl and the Nightingale,’ 1838.
  2. ‘Correspondence of Sir Henry Unton,’ 1847.
  3. ‘The Alliterative Romance of Alexander,’ 1849.
  4. Dan Michel's ‘The Ayenbite of Inwyt,’ 1855.

For the Surtees Society he edited:

  1. ‘Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis,’ 1840.
  2. ‘Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis,’ 1841.
  3. ‘The Correspondence of Robert Bowes of Ask,’ 1842.
  4. ‘Anglo-Saxon and Early English Psalter,’ 2 vols. 1843–4.
  5. ‘Libellus de Vita et Miraculis S. Godrici,’ 1845.
  6. ‘Latin Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church,’ 1851.
  7. ‘The Gospel of St. Matthew, from the … Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels,’ 1854.

For the collection of ‘The Church Historians of England’ he edited:

  1. ‘The Historical Works of the Venerable Beda,’ 1853.
  2. ‘The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; the Chronicle of Florence of Worcester, with a continuation and appendix,’ 1853.
  3. ‘The History of the Kings of England, and of his own Times, by William of Malmesbury,’ 1854.
  4. ‘The Chronicle of Fabius Ethelwerd; Asser's “Annals of King Alfred;” the Book of Hyde; the Chronicles of John Wallinford; the History of Ingulf; Gaimar,’ 1854.
  5. ‘The Historical Works of Simeon of Durham,’ 1855.
  6. ‘The History of William of Newburgh; the Chronicles of Robert de Monte,’ 1856.
  7. ‘The Chronicles of John and Richard of Hexham; the Chronicle of Holyrood; the Chronicle of Melrose; Jordan Fantosme's Chronicle,’ 1856.

For the Rolls Series he edited:

  1. ‘Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon,’ 2 vols. 1858.
  2. ‘Letters and Papers illustrative of the Wars of the English in France during the Reign of Henry VI,’ 2 vols., 1861–4.
  3. ‘Narratives of the Expulsion of the English from Normandy, 1449–50,’ 1863.
  4. ‘Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum,’ 1875.

His other works are:

  1. ‘Comparison between certain Statements in the Evidence by Messrs. S. Hardy and Cole before the select committee upon the Record Commission,’ 1837.
  2. ‘Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth,’ vols. i. to vii., 1863, &c.
  3. ‘Documents illustrative of the History of Scotland from the Death of King Alexander III to the Accession of Robert Bruce,’ 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1870, 8vo.
  4. ‘The History of Mary Stewart. … By Claude Nau, her Secretary, now first printed from the original Manuscripts, with illustrative Papers from the secret Archives of the Vatican, and other Collections in Rome,’ Edinburgh, 1883, 8vo.
  5. ‘The Truth about John Wyclif, his Life, Writings, and Opinions, chiefly from the evidence of his Contemporaries,’ London, 1885, 8vo.
  6. ‘Marie Stuart: a narrative of the first eighteen years of her Life, principally from original Documents,’ Edinburgh, 1886, 8vo.
  7. ‘The Life of St. Cuthbert,’ translated from the Latin of the Venerable Bede, London, 1887, 8vo.
  8. An edition of H. Clifford's ‘Life of Jane Dormer, duchess of Feria,’ London, 1887, 8vo, forming vol. lxii. of the ‘Quarterly Series.’
  9. ‘Cranmer and Anne Boleyn,’ London [1892], 8vo.

He also assisted Mr. James Paton in editing the ‘Scottish National Memorials,’ 1890.

[Memoir by Rev. J. H. Pollen in the Month, March 1895 p. 331, and April p. 500; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), Suppl. pp. 5, 6, 22–5, 33–5, 131; Times, 12 Feb. 1895, p. 11, col. 5; Tablet, 16 Feb. 1895, p. 243; Athenæum, 16 Feb. 1895, p. 220; Durham Univ. Journal, xi. 169, 221; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. iii. 221.]

T. C.

STEVENSON, MATTHEW (fl. 1654–1685), minor poet, was probably of Yorkshire origin, and a resident for the greater part of his life in Norfolk. He was occasionally seen in London, moving in a circle of minor wits of royalist tendencies, who haunted the law courts in the years following the Restoration. The coterie was dominated by such faint luminaries as Henry Bold, Valentine Oldys, Alexander Brome, and Edward Baynard (all of whom are separately noticed). Stevenson's publications were:

  1. ‘Occasion's Offspring. Or Poems upon Severall Occasions. By Mathew Stevenson. London, for Nathaniell Ekins,’ 1654; dedicated ‘To my best friend & courteous cousin Mr. Benjamin Cook’ and adorned by a portrait of the author by R. Gaywood.
  2. ‘The Tvvelve Moneths, or a pleasant and profitable discourse of every action, whether of Labour or Recreation, proper to each particular Moneth, branched into directions relating to Husbandry, as Plowing, Sowing, Gardening, Planting, Transplanting, Plashing of Fences, felling of Timber, ordering of Cattle and Bees & of Malt &c. As also of Recreations,