ABSTRACT
The historical narrative known as Warkworth’s Chronicle, first printed by the Camden Society in 18391 from Peterhouse MS. 190, ff. 214v–225, and hereafter described as P, has recently been republished in a new edition by L. M. Matheson, which also utilizes a second more recently identified MS of it, hereafter described as H. The nineteenth-century editor believed that Warkworth was probably the author of the work, but later historians have doubted this hypothesis. Both manuscripts contain a substantial number of marginal rubrics, probably in the same hands as those of the main texts, but these do not all refer to the same matters, so they were presumably written by the scribes of each rather than deriving from the common original. Indeed, there is one place where the Warkworth chronicler may well be less well informed on events in the North than another source which certainly does not have a northern provenance.
