seen in the church.
Principal works, all in Latin (see above, p. 117); "De Rebus a se
gestis;" "Gemma Ecclesiastica;" "De Invectionibus, Libri IV.;" "Speculum
Ecclesiae;" "Topographia Hibernica;" "Expugnatio Hibernica;" "Itinerarium
Kambriae;" "Descriptio Kambriae;" "De Principis Instructione."

[312] "Willelmi Malmesbiriensis Monachi, Gesta Regum Anglorum atque
Historia Novella," ed. T. D. Hardy, London, English Historical Society,
1840, 2 vols. 8vo; or the edition of Stubbs, Rolls, 1887 ff.; "De Gestis
Pontificum Anglorum," ed. Hamilton, Rolls, 1870. William seems to have
written between 1114 and 1123 and to have died ab. 1142, or shortly
after.

[313] "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.

[314] "De Annulo statuae commendato," "Gesta," vol. i. p. 354.

[315] "Matthaei Parisiensis ... Chronica Majora," ed. H. R. Luard, Rolls,
1872 ff., 7 vols.; "Historia Anglorum, sive ut vulgo dicitur Historia
Minor," ed. Madden, Rolls, 1866 ff., 3 vols. Matthew was English; his
surname of "Paris" or "the Parisian" meant, perhaps, that he had studied
at Paris, or perhaps that he belonged to one of the families of Paris
which existed then in England (Jessopp, "Studies by a Recluse," London,
1893, p. 46). He was received into St. Albans monastery on 1217, and was
sent on a mission to King Hacon in Norway in 1248-9. Henry III., a weak
king but an artist born, valued him greatly. He died in 1259. The oldest
part of Matthew's chronicle is founded upon the work of Roger de
Wendover, another monk of St. Albans, who died in 1236.

[316] So says Walsingham; see Madden's preface to the "Historia
Anglorum," vol. iii. p. xlviii.

[317] MS. Nero D i. in the British Museum, fol. 22, 23, 146, 169. The
attribution of these drawings to Matthew has been contested: their
authenticity seems, however, probable. See, _contra_, Hardy, vol. iii.
of his "Descriptive Catalogue." See also the MS. Royal 14 C vii., with
maps and itineraries; a great Virgin on a throne, with a monk at her
feet: "Fret' Mathias Parisiensis," fol. 6; fine draperies with many
folds, recalling those in the album of Villard de Honecourt.

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