 [ A2 ] / [ G ] Copy of the Winchester Chronicle : [ A2 ] was copied from [ A ] at Winchester in the eleventh century and follows a 10th @-@ century copy of an Old English translation of Bede 's Ecclesiastical History . The last annal copied was 1001 , so the copy was made no earlier than that ; an episcopal list appended to [ A2 ] suggests that the copy was made by 1013 . This manuscript was almost completely destroyed in the 1731 fire at Ashburnham House , where the Cotton Library was housed . Of the original 34 leaves , seven remain , ff . 39 – 47 in the manuscript . However , a transcript had been made by Laurence Nowell , a 16th @-@ century antiquary , which was used by Abraham Wheelocke in an edition of the Chronicle printed in 1643 . Because of this , it is also sometimes known as [ W ] , after Wheelocke . The appellations [ A ] , [ A2 ] and [ G ] derive from Plummer , Smith and Thorpe , respectively . 
