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Adam Murimuth (circa
1274 -
1347) was an
English ecclesiastic and
chronicler.
Life
He was born in 1274 or
1275 and studied
civil law at the
University of Oxford. Between
1312 and
1318 he practised in the papal
curia at
Avignon. King
Edward II of England and Archbishop
Robert Winchelsey were among his clients, and his legal services secured for him
canonries at
Hereford and
St Paul's, and the
precentorship of
Exeter Cathedral. In
1331 he retired to country living (in
Wraysbury,
Buckinghamshire), and devoted himself to writing the history of his own times.
Works
The chronicle he wrote of his times is entitled "
Chronicon, sive res gestae sui temporis quibus ipse interfuit, res Romanas et Gallicas Anglicanis intertexens, 1302-1343" (Cottonian Library MSS). His
Continuatio chronicarum, begun not earlier than
1325, starts from the year
1303, and continues up to
1347, the year of his death. Meagre at first, it becomes fuller about
1340 and is specially valuable for the history of the French wars. Murimuth gives a bald narrative of events, incorporating many documents in the latter part of his book. The annals of St. Paul's edited by Bishop
William Stubbs are closely related to the work of Murimuth, but probably not from his pen. The
Continuatio was carried on, after his death, by an anonymous writer to the year
1380.
The only complete edition of the
Continuatio chronicarum is that by
Edward Maunde Thompson (
Rolls series, 1889). The preface to this edition, and to
William Stubbs's
Chronicles of Edward I and II, vol. i. (Rolls series, 1882), should be consulted. The anonymous continuation is printed in T. Hog's edition of
Murimuth (Eng. Hist. Soc., London, 1846).
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