 However, while another writer has observed that Hugh "may well have been at least half Norman", according to the most recent editor of Hugh's history, it shows that "[Old English] was still understood in monastic circles in Peterborough in the mid-twelfth century, quite apart from the evidence afforded by the transcription of the [Peterborough Chronicle] there".Also, while the most recent editor of the Peterborough Chronicle considers it more likely that Hugh made use of the Chronicle, rather than the other way around, an earlier editor stated that "[all] the evidence there is" seems to be against identifying Hugh with the author of the Chronicle.Hugh's Medieval Latin history of Peterborough Abbey was first published in 1723 by Joseph Sparke, in his "Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Variæ", edited from a 14th-century manuscript known as the "Book of Walter of Whittlesey".