Bury Chronicle

[6] The issue is somewhat obscured by the mistaken dual chronology introduced by Marianus Scotus[7] and employed by John of Worcester and Taxster.

[8] The second author—often but baselessly identified as John of Everden[9]—also revised Taxster's account, including some additional information on the monastery's finances and adding several passages from a few classical authors and medieval historians.

[2] Most items up to 1131 are taken from John of Worcester,[2] probably from the copy now held as Bodleian Library MS 297, which includes substantial additions concerning the history of the abbey.

[12] (The exact beginning of Taxster's original contributions is uncertain because the only surviving manuscript of the Annals is missing its final pages.

)[11] Marginalia in the revised and continued version note its additions to Taxster's account came from Apuleius, Orosius, Eutropius, Boethius, Freculf, Marianus Scotus, and John of Worcester.

[15][16] The first, possibly Taxster's own holograph,[16] comprises folios 3 to 43 verso of British Library MS Cotton Julius A 1.

[32] Henry Richards Luard published the years 1258–1263 collated from several manuscripts in 1859 as part of the Rolls Series.