Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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In an adjacent field, without: Mr. Morgan's garden, is the hollow circular spot, known at Caerleon by the name of Arthur's Round Table which is generally supposed to be a Roman work, and to have served by way of amphitheatre. In this case it must be considered as one of the Castrensian kind, like that; at Richborough castle, not far from Sandwich in Kent, and many others. Stukeleyt mentions one at Silchester, and another three miles from Redruth in Cornwall. Probably the round entrenchment between Perith and Shap in Westmoreland, described by Salmonu, and compared: by him to a cockpit, or wrestling ring, is of the same kind. It asfo goes:by the name of Arthur's Round Tables as does that on the castle-wall at Winchester. Such temporary amphitheatres were probably the only ones used by the Romans in the distant provinces; since their more pompous edifices of this kind seem to have been confined to Italy, France, Spain, the coals of the Adriatic, and the neighbouring province of Helvetia, &c. Lipfius has given us a lift of such of these superb buildings, of which there are any remains, in his learned book De amphitheatris extra Romam.
Note t. Iter Curiosum, I. p. 156.
Note u. Survey, p. 637. Pennant, Tour 1769, p. 256. pi. 19. Stukeley II. 43. pi. 8a, Gibson's Camden Brit.