Richard of Cirencester, an English chronicler, born at Cirencester; flourished in the 14th century; was a monk in the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, Westminster; wrote a History of England from 447 to 1066; for long the reputed author of a remarkable work on Roman Britain, now proved to be a forgery; (d. 1401).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Richard III. * Richards, Alfred Bate