Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hemming
HEMMING (fl. 1096), chronicler, was sub-prior of Worcester during the episcopate of Bishop Wulstan (d. 1096), at whose request he compiled the chartulary of the church of Worcester, still extant in Hemming's autograph in MS. Cotton. Tiberius A. xiii., under the title ‘De ecclesiæ Vigorniensis dotatione privilegiis et possessionibus.’ Hemming inserted some pieces of his own composition in the volume, including a life of Wulstan, which was printed by Wharton in his ‘Anglia Sacra’ (i. 541), and is reprinted in Migne's ‘Patrologia’ (cl. 1489–94). This life, though written as prose, seems to be really in verse. Some other extracts are given in Dugdale's ‘Monasticon,’ vol. i. The whole chartulary, which is a valuable collection of documents, was edited by Hearne, ‘Hemingi Chartularium Ecclesiæ Wigorniensis,’ Oxford, 1723.
[Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hib. p. 391; Wright's Biog. Brit. Lit., Anglo-Norman Period, p. 46; Hardy's Cat. Brit. Hist. i. 811, ii. 73, 89–90 (Rolls Ser.)]