 [ E ] The Peterborough Chronicle : In 1116 , a fire at the monastery at Peterborough destroyed most of the buildings . The copy of the Chronicle kept there may have been lost at that time or later , but in either case shortly thereafter a fresh copy was made , apparently copied from a Kentish version — most likely to have been from Canterbury . The manuscript was written at one time and by a single scribe , down to the annal for 1121 . The scribe added material relating to Peterborough Abbey which is not in other versions . The Canterbury original which he copied was similar , but not identical , to [ D ] : the Mercian Register does not appear , and a poem about the Battle of Brunanburh in 937 , which appears in most of the other surviving copies of the Chronicle , is not recorded . The same scribe then continued the annals through to 1131 ; these entries were made at intervals , and thus are presumably contemporary records . Finally , a second scribe , in 1154 , wrote an account of the years 1132 – 1154 ; but his dating is known to be unreliable . This last entry is in Middle English , rather than Old English . [ E ] was once owned by William Laud , Archbishop of Canterbury 1633 – 1654 , so is also known as the Laud Chronicle . The manuscript contains occasional glosses in Latin , and is referred to ( as " the Saxon <unk> of <unk> church " ) in an antiquarian book from 1566 . According to Joscelyn , Nowell had a transcript of the manuscript . Previous owners include William Camden and William L 'Isle ; the latter probably passed the manuscript on to Laud . 
