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and other sources. His original content is usually considered to begin with the entry for the year 1212, although it's a bit uncertain given that surviving manuscripts of the Annals are missing their final pages.
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Nothing is known of John de Taxster except what is recorded in or understood from his own work. His surname—given as Taxster in one manuscript and Tayster in another—may be a variant of
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Bartholomaei de Cotton Monachi Norwicensis Historia Anglicana (A.D. 449–1298.) necnon Ejusdem Liber de Archiepiscopis et Episcopis Angliae
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The English History (AD 449–1298) of Bartholomew Cotton Monk of Norwich along with The Book of the Archbishops and Bishops of England
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appear to have been scratched from the Cotton Julius manuscript, probably around 1266 when Henry
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Taxster probably died around 1265, when his portion of the chronicle ends. His notice of the
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A History of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, 1257–1301: Simon of Luton and John of Northwold
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to 1265 during the early 1260s. It is possible that the version of the chronicle in
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Taxster's chronicle is an important early source on the aftermath of
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to 1265 but nearly all of the early entries are simply copied from
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John of Taxster
13th-century English chronicler
monk
Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Bury Chronicle

Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Bury Chronicle
professed
Benedictine monk
Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Suffolk
England
Bury Chronicle
Creation
British Library
Cotton Julius
holograph
cursive book hand
marked in red
King John
Magna Carta
Second Barons' War
English law
foreignness
King Henry III
Queen Eleanor
veneration
Simon de Montfort
miracles

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