3 February

Friday 3^d. At Mus^m. Finished Will. Rishanger, – whose Chronicle 

is entirely

confined to the accounts of the battles of Lewes & Evesham, & the causes

of the dissension.* He has many curious particulars not to be met with

elsewhere. He was a monk of St. Alban’s. – I then commenced from the

same MS. “Liber Chronicorum editus ad instantiam venerabilis patris

nostri Johannis, abbatis Sancti Albani,” &c.⁺ – from 1259 to 1293⁶ written in

a fine square hand of the period, but very incorrectly. A rainy wet

day. Dined out at Mrs. ^L._^ Goldsmid’s; only a family party of the

De Visme’s, &c.

* It was edited for the Camden Society in 1840 by J. O. Halliwell

⁺ Edited in 1866 by H. T. Riley for the Master of the Rolls.