HEMINGFORD, WALTER, or, as he is called by Lealand, Hemingoburgus, one of the old Latin chroniclers of the fourteenth century, was a canon regular of the Austin Priory of Gisborough in Yorkshire. His chronicle relates the history of England from the time of the Norman Conquest till the twentieth year of Edward III. The first three books of this work (extending from the Conquest to 1273) were published by Gale in his Scriptores Quinque, and the remainder by Hearne, at Oxford, 2 vols. 1731. Hemingford died in 1347.