Excerpt from The Life and Times of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln Glorious Matthew Paris also wrote another historical work, called The Lesser History, and the greater part of the Chronicle called the History of Matthew of Westminster, the other part of this having been composed by a Westminster monk, named John Bevere 1 None of the Middle Age writers of our history is more interesting, and, for the most part, more trustworthy and fair, than Matthew Paris. But it must be remembered that as one of a body to whom Grosseteste was especially severe, he is inclined to bear rather hardly upon the bishop. On the other hand the bishop's opposition to Rome called forth his warm admiration, for Matthew Paris wrote in a thoroughly national spirit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.