Fabyan

Fabyan, ROBERT, an English chronicler under Henry VII., was descended from an Essex family, and followed his father's trade as a clothier in London, where he was sheriff in 1493, and seems to have died in 1513. Three years later was printed by Pynson the first edition of his history, The New Chronicles of England and France. It begins with the arrival of Brutus, and comes down to the battle of Bosworth, reaching in its second edition (1533) the death of Henry VII. From the accession of Richard I. it takes the form of a London chronicle, and indeed the whole work has little value save for some points in the history of the city. The best edition is that by Ellis (1811).