ROBERT, an alderman of the city of London, and sheriff in the year 1494, was a person of learning for the time he lived in, a good poet, and author of a Chronicle of England and France, entitled The Concordance of Stories, in two volumes folio, beginning with Brute, and ending with the 20th of Henry VIII. 1504. It contains several curious particulars relative to the city of London, not elsewhere to be found. Stow calls it "a painful labour, to the great honour of the city and of the whole realm:" We are told that Cardinal Wolsey caused as many copies of this book as he could procure to be burned, because the author had made too clear a discovery of the large revenues of the clergy. Fabian died in 1512.