Outside the traditional lay, upper-class audience, the reach of the Middle English translations of the "Brut" extended the audience to the merchant class. Landowning gentry with a Middle English copy of the "Brut" include John Sulyard's father, who passed it on to Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex's son Thomas. John Warkworth of Peterhouse, Cambridge, owned a copy (which included the Warkworths "Chronicle", named for him), as did the religious houses St Bartholomew-the-Great and Dartford Priory, among others. Matheson identifies a number of women owners and readers as well: Isabel Alen (niece of vicar William Trouthe), Alice Brice, Elizabeth Dawbne, and Dorothy Helbartun. The Brut's significance is now seen as being in the fact that it was written by laymen, for laymen, and also that the latter portion, at least, was one of the first chronicles written in the English language; it also occasionally provides historical details not found in other contemporaries' writings. The Brut owned by the Mortimer family in the late fourteenth-century contained their view of their own genealogy (which they also traced back to King Arthur and Brutus). The first scholarly edition of the later-medieval portion was transcribed and edited by J.S. Davies for the Camden Society in 1856, and in 1879 James Gairdner published parts of it relating to the Hundred Years' War in his "Historical Recollections of a London Citizen". In 1905, C.S.L. Kingsford published three versions in his "Chronicles of London", and the following year F.W.D. Brie published a list of all extant manuscripts in his "The Brute of England or The Chronicles of England."