"Fabyan's own merits are little more than those of an industrious compiler, who strung together the accounts of his different authorities without any critical capacity. He says expressly that his work was "gaderyd without understandynge," and speaks of himself as "of cunnynge full destitute." Nevertheless he deserves the praise which he has received as an early worker, and for having made public information which through Hall and Holinshed has become the common property of later historians, and has only recently been otherwise accessible."
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Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, "Fabyan, Robert", Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. (1911) vol. 10, p. 120
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Robert Fabyan
Robert Fabyan (died c. 1512) was a London draper, Sheriff and Alderman, and the author of The New Chronicles of England and of France, better known as the Chronicle of Fabyan.
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