Under Archbishop Matthew Parker's patronage, Stow was persuaded to produce a version of "Flores historiarum" by "Matthew of Westminster", published in 1567; and then the "Chronicle of Matthew Paris" in 1571, and the "Historia brevis" of Thomas Walsingham in 1574. In the "Chronicle of England 1590" Stow writes: "To The Honorable Sir John Hart, Lord Maior. The Chronicle written before that nothing is perfect the first time, and that it is incident to mankinde to erre and slip sometimes, but the point of fantatical fooles to preserve and continue in their errors."