 An important early printed edition of the Chronicle appeared in 1692 , by Edmund Gibson , an English jurist and divine who became Bishop of Lincoln in that year . Titled <unk> <unk> , it printed Latin and Old English versions of the text in parallel columns and became the standard edition until the 19th century . It was superseded in 1861 by Benjamin Thorpe 's Rolls edition , which printed six versions in columns , labelled A to F , thus giving the manuscripts the letters which are now used to refer to them . 
