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Excerpt from Selections From Matthew Paris The extracts printed in this volume are taken from the Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris. He was a monk of St. Albans from 1217 to his death in 1259, and for many years was chronicler of the monastery. St. Albans was often visited by Kings and other great persons, so that he had many opportunities of gaining information for his work; thus he tells us that Henry III. During a visit to St. Albans told him all the Kings of England who had been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.