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Excerpt from Rogeri De Wendover Chronica, Sive Flores Historiarum, Vol. 4
IT is much to be lamented, that of the personal Biographical history of the early chroniclers of England so ntlce' little remains to which any credit is to be attach ed; and the case of the historian, of whom we are now to speak, will be found to form no ex ception to the general rule. We are, indeed, left in a state of more than usual darkness re specting him, for in the chronicle which bears his name the use of the first person rarely oc curs. In the works of Beda and Malmsbury, many facts respecting their birth and education are directly given, and much information may often be deduced from a comparison of circum stances incidentally mentioned, and thus each writer becomes to a certain extent his own bio grapher. But in the case of Roger de Wendover we are not able to derive assistance from such sources.
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