William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans

ILLUSTRATIONS

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SEAL OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR			Frontispiece
		From Rymer’s Foedera (published 1704).

JUMIÈGES ABBEY—FAÇADE			66
		Reproduced by permission of Levy et ses Fils, Paris.

JUMIÈGES ABBEY—INTERIOR			80
		Reproduced by permission of Levy et ses Fils, Paris.

THE SIEGE OF DINANT			140
	FROM THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
		From Vetusta Monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries of London (published 1819).

SEAL OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR			148
		From Rymer’s Foedera (published 1704).

HAROLD ENTHRONED			158
	FROM THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
		From Vetusta Monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries of London (published 1819).

HAROLD’S OATH			162
	FROM THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
		From Vetusta Monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries of London (published 1819).

THE BUILDING OF HASTINGS CASTLE			188
	FROM THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
		From Vetusta Monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries of London (published 1819).

THE DEATH OF HAROLD			198
	FROM THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
		From Vetusta Monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries of London (published 1819).

FOSSE DISASTER, BATTLE OF HASTINGS			204
	FROM THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
		Reproduced from Vetusta Monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries of London (published 1819).

ST. JOHN’S CHAPEL, IN THE TOWER OF LONDON			228

CHARTER OF WILLIAM I. TO THE LONDONERS			230
	IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE CORPORATION
		Facsimile prepared by F. Madan, M. A., Reader in PalÆography in the University of Oxford.

THE BAILE HILL, YORK			270

THE SITE OF WILLIAM I.’S SECOND CASTLE
		Reproduced from Traill’s Social England.

TOMB OF ROBERT COURTHOSE, THE ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, DUKE OF NORMANDY, GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL			350
	THE EFFIGY IS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
		Reproduced from a photograph by Pitcher, Gloucester, England.

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR			360
	AS CONCEIVED BY A FRENCH PAINTER OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
		The original of this picture, now lost, was painted by an artist when the tomb of the Conqueror was opened in 1522. A copy executed in 1708, is preserved in the sacristy of St Etienne’s Church at Caen; the present illustration is from a photograph of that copy.

REDUCED FACSIMILE OF THE CHARTER OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR TO HYDE ABBEY			382
		Reproduced from Liber VitÆ of New Minster and Hyde Abbey, Winchester. Edited by W. de Gray Birch.

GAMEL SON OF ORME’S SUNDIAL			388
		From A Short Account of Saint Gregory’s Minster, Kirkdale, by Rev. F. W. Powell, Clyx.com