Consultation with Earl Spencer led to the conclusion that government support would be needed, and Petrie was asked to draw up a plan.
[2] The Welsh portion was given to John Humffreys Parry (killed in the street in 1825)[3] and Aneurin Owen, and was published in 1841.
[1] Francis Palgrave had criticised the approach, which followed that of Martin Bouquet, and divided texts into extracts arranged chronologically.
[1] One volume of the project was completed and published in 1848 by Thomas Duffus Hardy, who had been trained by Petrie, as Monumenta Historica Britannica, subtitled or Materials for the History of Great Britain from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest.
Petrie also edited Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ, 1830; and his translation of the earlier portion of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was reprinted from the Monumenta in the Church Historians of England, 1854, vol.