during the government of Æthelfleda, in a separate form, instead of attempting to distribute them chronologically among the events of the original chronicle, returned from A.D. 918 to A.D. 896, and thence inserted them continuously to A.D. 919, when the two accounts run into one. Thenceforward to A.D. 934 it differs from Manuscript G.; but afterwards, till it ceases at A.D. 975, it again resembles that copy. It was first collated by Dr. Ingram."[1] It formerly belonged to the Monastery of St. Augustine at Canterbury.
C. "The Cottonian Manuscript, Tiberius B. i.,[2] in square folio; from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to A.D. 1066 ; written apparently in the same hand to A.D. 1046, afterwards in various hands. It appears to have been transcribed from a copy of the same class as B., as far as that manuscript extends, but its chronology is complete. Afterwards it agrees for the most part with Manuscripts D., E., and F., to A.D. 1056, when it becomes blank to A.D. 1065, and ends, in a hand of the twelfth century, with the story of the Dane [r. Norwegian] at Stamford Bridge, in A.D. 1066. In a few instances, differing from the other copies, it seems to begin the year at Easter.[3] Its variations were first printed by Dr. Ingram."[4]
D. "The Cottonian Manuscript, Tiberius B. iv., is in medium folio; from the Incarnation to A.D. 1079; written in one hand to A.D. 1016, afterwards in several. It is much mutilated from A.D. 261 to A.D. 693, but part of the hiatus has been filled up by Josceline from other copies; it is also mutilated at the end. To A.D. 806, it has much in common with Manuscripts E. and F. It sometimes enlarges
