Edited sentence: According to Cardinal Gasquet every subsequent English chronicler who mentions it has simply accepted it on Giraldus's authority.Giraldus he says then devoted the rest of his life to writing the Expugnatio Hibernica, publishing three editions of it.In Expugnatio Giraldus declared that truth was not his only object, but that he took up his pen to glorify Henry II.The first was published about 1188, and the last, which was dedicated to King John, in 1209