BIBLIOGRA,PBY.-A number of lives of Edward are brought together in a volume of the Rolls Series entitled Lives of Edward the Confessor, ed. Dr. H. R. Luard (5858). Of these the most valuable is the con temporary Vita Edwardi, which would appear from internal evidence to have been written by an unknown writer soon after the Norman Conquest—some time between 5066 and I074. The other chief authori ties for the reign are (i) the Saxon Chronicle (C. Plummer, Oxford, 1892-99) ; (2) Florence of Worcester, ed. B. Thorpe, English Historical Society (1848-49) . Reference may also be made to J. M. Kemble, Codex diplomaticus aevi Saxonici (London, 1839-48) . (C. S. P.)