Gesta Herwardi
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The Gesta Herwardi is a manuscript written in about 1260 as a copy of a Latin edition of about 1170 by Hugh Candidus. The latter was a translation of an earlier work in English from about 1110, with gaps in the damaged original filled out from oral history. The document was bound into a book with others relating to Peterborough Abbey which was kept at the abbey and latterly, at Peterborough Cathedral, in the same premises. It is now kept in the Seeley Historical Library of the University of Cambridge. The whole book is known by variants of the name 'Robert of Swaffham's Book'. The Gesta text is about the deeds and character of Hereward.
