HENRY OF HUNTINGDON, English chronicler of the 12th century, was born, apparently, between the years 1080 and 1090. At an early age Henry entered the household of Bishop Robert Bloet, who appointed him in IIIo archdeacon of Hert ford and Huntingdon. Henry was on familiar terms with his patron; and also, it would seem, with Bloet's successor, by whom he was encouraged to undertake the writing of an English his tory from the time of Julius Caesar. This work, undertaken before 1130, was first published in that year; the author subse quently published in succession four more editions, of which the last ends in 1154 with the accession of Henry II. The only re corded fact of the chronicler's later life is that he went with Archbishop Theobald to Rome in The Historia Anglorum was first printed in Savile, Rerum Angli carum scriptores post Bedam (1596), given in Monumenta historica Britannica, vol. i. (ed. H. Petrie and Sharpe, London, 1848) . The standard edition is that of T. Arnold in the Rolls Series (1879) . There is a translation by T. Forester in Bohn's Antiquarian Library (1853). The Historia is of little independent value before 1126. Arnold prints, in an appendix, a minor work from Henry's pen, the Epistola ad Walterum de contemptu mundi, which was written in 1135. It is a moralizing tract, but contains some interesting anecdotes about contemporaries. A book, De miraculis, composed of extracts from Bede, was appended along with three epistles to the later recen sions of the Historia. Henry composed eight books of Latin epigrams; two books survive in the Lambeth ms., No. 118.