Robert, an ancient English chronicler, was sprung from a respectable family in Essex, and is believed to have been born in London about the middle of the fifteenth century, though no records remain by which the events of his early life can be assigned to any precise date. The first fact in his history known for certain is, that he was alderman for the ward of Farringdon-Without; and in 1493 he was appointed to the office of sheriff. In 1502, though he is believed on good grounds to have been very rich, he resigned the former of these two offices on the score of poverty, not wishing probably to be elected to the expensive position of Lord Mayor, as he had a very numerous family. Facciolati Stowe, in his *Survey of London*, states that Fabian died in 1511; but Bayle, probably with more correctness, assigns that event to the following year. Fabian's Chronicle embraces the history of England from the time when "Brute entryd firste the Ile of Albion" to the year 1485; and in subsequent editions was continued by unknown authors to the year 1559. There have been five editions of the work, the first of which was printed in 1516 by Pynson, and, as Wolsey ordered many copies of it to be buried, is now very rare; the second by Rastell in 1533; the third by Reyne in 1542; the fourth by Kyngeston in 1559. The fifth, in the preparation of which all the previous editions were compared, was published by Sir Henry Ellis in 1811. The first edition had no regular title; later ones bore the title of the *Concordance of Histories*, it being Fabian's object to reconcile in his work the conflicting narratives of previous historians. The title of the last edition is "The New Chronicles of England and France, in two parts, by Robert Fabian, named by himself the Concordance of Histories."