WORCESTER, FLORENCE OF

WORCESTER, FLORENCE OF, one of the earliest historians of the twelfth century. His work is entitled The Chronicle of Chronicles, from the Beginning of the World to the Year 1117. The early part seems to have been compiled from Gildas, Bede, Marianus Scotus, and the Saxon Chronicle; the latter part is curious, as it gives a great deal of local information not to be found elsewhere. Higden says he died 1118. The work has been continued

to 1163 by a monk of the same abbey. The best old edition is that affixed to the Flores Historiarum of Matthew of Westminster, folio, Frankfort, 1601.