THE PREFACE.
and the other by Doctor Hanmer, who died (of the plague in Dublin in they yeare M. DC. Ill J.J before he had finished his intended worke: out of whose collections, what now beareth his name hath bin preserved by our most Reverend and excellently learned Primate. Other helpes (to passe by those which are already divulged I) may be plentifully had by him who will undertake this taske, out of the aimdent and moderne recordes, both in this Kingdome and in England, as also out of diverse manuscript Annates and Chartidaries, which are yet extant among us, besides those authors of English birth, as John VVallingford a Monke of St. Alban, 'Thomas VVike a Canon of Osney, and others, (which I have seenej in that excellent library and treasury of MSS. antiquities, gathered by Sir Robert Cotton knight and Baronett deceased, who doe onely obiter touch upon our affaires. An intention there tvas not long since by Sir James Ley knight then Lord Chief e Justice of the Kings Bench in Jr eland, (aftemuards Lord High Treasurer of England and Earle of Marleburgh) to have published some of our country writers in this kiiide, for which end hee caused to be transcribed and made Jit for the Presse, the Annates of John Clynne a Friar minor of Kilkenny, (who
