The flowers of History, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain : from the beginning of the world to the year 1307 / collected by Matthew of Westminster ; translated from the original by C.D. Yonge
volume I. B.C. 4004 to A.D. 1066 -- volume II. A.D. 1066 to A.D. 1307
Notes
The text covering the period to 1259 is based on the author's Chronica majora ; the text covering the period 1259-1307 was partly compiled and partly composed by various writers at St. Albans and Westminster
For the most recent theory of authorship compare Richard Vaughan. Matthew Paris. 1958; for the older theory compare Dictionary national biography