Life
fl.1370 [var. Pembrige]; author of Annales Hiberniae, 1162-1370; Bodleian
MS printed in London in William Camden’s Britannia, 6th edn.
of 1607, reprinted many times, and trans. into English by Philemon
Holland, 1610; ed. Gough and Nichols, 4 vols. (1806); noticed in Sir James
Ware’s Writers of Ireland. CAB ODNB DIW.
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References
Dictionary of National Biography [ODNB]: conjectured by Sir James Ware to have been a native of Dublin, fl. ?1370,
apparently author of Annales Hiberniae ab anno Christi 1162 usque ad
annum 1370; printed by Camden at the end of his Britannia,
and again by J. T. Gilbert in Chartularies of St. Mary’s Abbey,
Dublin. the MS used by Camden is Bodleian, Laud 526; the Latin Annales
Hiberniae attributed to James Grace of Kilkenny and published in J. Irish Arch.
Soc. (1842), is considered to show that Pembridge and Grace were both
probably translated from some common original in a language other
than Latin, according to Grace’s editor, Richard Butler. See also
Roy Foster, Modern Ireland (1988).
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