The Lanercost Chronicle is a northern English history covering the years 1201 to 1346.
[1] It covers the Wars of Scottish Independence, but it is also highly digressive and as such provides insights into English life in the thirteenth century as well as Scottish life.
The English historian Andrew George Little concluded that the chronicle is basically a Franciscan chronicle, which has been adapted, abbreviated, and interpolated at the Augustinian Lanercost Priory.
The second author, says Little, "resembles the first only in being a Franciscan and a patriotic hater of the Scots"[3] but an additional similarity is that they are both North-country men.
The oldest surviving manuscript of the original Latin text is British Library Cotton Claudius D. vii.