page_title: A Short English Chronicle
section_title: Gairdner's publication
hierarchical_section_title: A Short English Chronicle / Manuscript / Gairdner's publication
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page of James Gairdner's Three Fifteenth-Century Chronicles (London, 1880).
context_page_description: A Short English Chronicle is a chronicle produced in England in the first half of the 15th century. It is currently held in Lambeth Palace Library, and although it begins its coverage in 1189, its content is thin until it reaches 1422. It covers the years from then until 1464 in greater depth, ending with the marriage of the Yorkist King Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville and the capture of the deposed Lancastrian King, Henry VI. It is one of a number of chronicles and writings emitting from London in the early 15th century, and it presents national political events from a London perspective.
  The chronicle was first published in 1880 by James Gairdner and has remained a source for historians into the 20th century, generally more for what it tells them regarding the creation and use of chronicles than its historiographical value. Gairdner suggested that while it was severely lacking in the first few hundred years of its chronology, the details Short Chronicle provided on the reigns of Henry and Edward made it useful.
context_section_description: The chronicle's author originally titled it Cronycullys of Englonde; who the author was, though, remains unknown.  The name A Short English Chronicle was first bestowed upon it by the historian James Gairdner, when he published it as part of his Three English Chronicles collection, published by the Selden Society in 1880.
caption: Title page of James Gairdner's Three Fifteenth-Century Chronicles, in which the Short English Chronicle was published in 1880.
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