Walter De Hemingford

Walter de Hemingford was the second writer that George Markham Tweddell wrote about in his 1872

book, The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham.

Earlier in 1850, at a talk on Local Writers for the Stokesley Mechanics Institute, George Markham Tweddell introduced him thus 

" The next author to whom I shall refer is an English Historian of the fourteenth century - Walter De Hemingford, who was Canon of the Austin Priory at Guisbo' . The original manuscript of his history, I believe, is preserved in the Advocates Library in Edingburgh. This history was published at Oxford, by that laborious antiquary, Thomas Hearne."

Walter de Hemingford (sometimes called Hemingburgh) died in Gisbro' in 1347. He was Canon of Gisbro' Priory when it was burnt in 1289. His Chronicle was written in Latin.

The Introduction to the Chronicle 

The manuscript can be accessed by joining Questia 

https://www.questia.com/library/100082702/the-chronicle-of-walter-of-guisborough-previously

Here is a pdf of the chapter in Tweddell's Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872 on Walter De Hemingford.

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