Charles Bertram
Charles Julius Bertram (1723–1765) was an English expatriate in Denmark who "discovered"—and presumably wrote—''The Description of Britain'' (), an 18th-century literary forgery purporting to be a mediaeval work on history that remained undetected for over a century. In that time, it was highly influential for the reconstruction of the history of Roman Britain and contemporary Scotland, to the extent of appearing in Edward Gibbon's ''Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' and being used to direct William Roy's initial Ordnance Survey maps. Bertram "discovered" the manuscript around the age of 24 and spent the rest of his life a successful academic and author. Scholars contested various aspects of the ''Description'', but it was not recognized as unquestionably a forgery until 1846. Provided by Wikipedia
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The chronicle of Richard of Devizes concerning the deeds of Richard the First, King of England : also Richard of Cirencester's Description of Britain by Richard, of Devizes, approximately 1150-approximately 1200
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Six old English chronicles, by Giles, J. A. (John Allen), 1808-1884
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Six old English chronicles : of which two are now first translated from the monkish Latin originals by Giles, J. A. (John Allen), 1808-1884
London : G. Bell, 1885Other Authors: “…Bertram, Charles, 1723-1765…”
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Six old English chronicles
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