GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369), English chronicler, was present at the battle of Neville's Cross in 1346; in whilst acting as warden of Norham Castle, he was made a prisoner, and during his captivity in Edinburgh Castle he studied the English chroniclers, Gildas, Bede. Ranulf. Hiaden and others. Released in 1357 he was appointed warden of the east marches towards Scot land in 1367, and he died about 1369. Gray's work, the Scala cronica (so called, perhaps, from the scaling ladder in the crest of the Grays), is a chronicle, written in Norman-French, of English history from the earliest times to about the year 1362. It is valuable for the account of the wars between England and Scot land, in which the author's father and the author himself took part. The Scalacronica was summarized by John Leland in the 16th century ; the part dealing with the period from 1066 to the end, together with the prologue, was edited for the Maitland Club by J. Stevenson (1836) ; and the part from 1274 to 1362 was translated into English by Sir Herbert Maxwell (Glasgow, 1907). In the extant manuscript, which is in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, there is a gap extending from about 134o to 13J5, and Gray's account of this period is only known from Leland's summary.