 [ D ] The Worcester Chronicle appears to have been written in the middle of the 11th century . After 1033 it includes some records from Worcester , so it is generally thought to have been composed there . Five different scribes can be identified for the entries up to 1054 , after which it appears to have been worked on at intervals . The text includes material from Bede 's Ecclesiastical History and from a set of 8th @-@ century Northumbrian annals . It is thought that some of the entries may have been composed by Archbishop Wulfstan . [ D ] contains more information than other manuscripts on northern and Scottish affairs , and it has been speculated that it was a copy intended for the Anglicised Scottish court . From 972 to 1016 , the sees of York and Worcester were both held by the same person — Oswald from 972 , Ealdwulf from 992 , and Wulfstan from 1003 , and this may explain why a northern recension was to be found at Worcester . By the 16th century , parts of the manuscript were lost ; eighteen pages were inserted containing substitute entries from other sources , including [ A ] , [ B ] , [ C ] and [ E ] . These pages were written by John Joscelyn , who was secretary to Matthew Parker . 
