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Excerpt from Adae Murimuth Continuatio Chronicarum: Robertus De Avesbury De Gestis Mirabilibus Regis Edwardi Tertii This new arrangement brought him into trouble almost at the outset. His first year, 1303, he rightly styles the 3lst year of Edward I. His year 1304 he begins with Michaelmas 1303, thus anticipating by three months, and he places it in the 32ud regnal year, which, however, did not commence till the 2oth November. His year 1305 begins with Michaelmas 1304, and is styled the 33rd regnal year; and it is carried on to Michaelmas 1306, thus really embracing two years. When, therefore, he begins his year 1306, he is nine months in arrear; but from this point he becomes con sistent, and always dates his year from the Michaelmas Of the actual year. It is scarcely necessary to add that the confusion in the papal years is as bad as in the rogue] years. And this perverse chronological craze answered no purpose whatever. Murimuth's system was soon found to be inconvenient, as is evident from the not infrequent interpolation of the true year in different mss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.