AVESBURY, ROBERT, an English historian, of whom little more is known than that he was keeper of the registry of the court of Canterbury in the reign of Edward III. and consequently that he lived in the fourteenth century. He wrote Memorabilia gesta magnifici regis Anglie domini Edwardi Tertii post Conquestum, procerumque; tactis primitus quibusdam gestis de tempore patris sui domini Edwardi Secundi, que in regnis Anglie, Scotie, et Francie, ac in Aquitania et Britannia, non humana sed Dei potentia, contigerunt. This history ends with the battle of Poictiers, about the year 1356. It continued in manuscript till the year 1720, when it was printed by Hearne at Oxford, from a manuscript belonging to Sir Thomas Seabright.