The "Chronicle"* is a work of general history, apparently compiled from other sources and rendered in verse. Its chief delight (and use) is that it is in English rather than Latin.

The Rolls Series editor for the Chronical, William Aldis Wright (biography), obviously lost the will to live someway through the job, as his terse introduction makes clear. He notes: "As literature, it is as worthless as twelve thousand lines of verse without one spark of poetry can be. Here and there we find a trace of the quiet humour in which gentle dulness delights, but of this the instances are rare and wide scattered".