INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH ("449").
THE MISSION OF AUGUSTINE (597).
ETHELBERT'S DOOMS ( circa 600 ).
POPE GREGORY'S LETTER TO AUGUSTINE ON THE ORGANISATION OF THE CHURCH (601).
AUGUSTINE'S ATTEMPT TO UNITE THE ROMAN AND THE CELTIC CHURCHES (603).
PAULINUS AND EDWIN (625).
EDWIN OF NORTHUMBRIA HOLDS A CONFERENCE, AT WHICH IT IS AGREED
THE CHARACTER OF BISHOP AIDAN (635).
OSWIN OF NORTHUMBRIA AND AIDAN (642).
THE SYNOD OF WHITBY (664).
ABBOT BENEDICT BISCOP'S ZEAL FOR RELIGIOUS ART ( 664 ONWARDS ).
THE SYNOD OF HERTFORD (673).
THEODORE AND WILFRID (678).
THE STORY OF CAEDMON (680).
WILFRID CONVERTS THE SOUTH SAXONS (681).
ST. CUTHBERT: (1) AS ABBOT, (2) AS ANCHORITE ( DIED A.D. 687 ).
THE DOOMS OF INE ( BETWEEN 688 AND 705 ).
CEOLFRID, ABBOT OF JARROW ( DIED 716 ).
A RIDDLE OF CYNEWULF ( BORN BETWEEN 720 AND 730 ).
POPE GREGORY II. COMMENDS BONIFACE ( December 1, 722 ).
THE STATE OF ENGLAND IN 731.
BEDE'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF, HIS HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES AND METHODS (731).
THE FAITHFUL THEGNS (786).
THE COMING OF THE DANES (787-870)
A LETTER FROM CHARLES THE GREAT TO OFFA (796).
THE BRETWALDAS (827).
ALFRED AND THE DANES (871-878).
ALFRED AND GUTHRUM'S PEACE ( c. 885)
ALFRED'S DOOMS.
OHTHERE'S VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION, TOLD TO KING ALFRED.
EDWARD'S POLICY (907-925).
ATHELSTAN'S DOOM CONCERNING HOT IRON AND WATER (925-940).
THE BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH (937).
A LAND BOC (940).
DUNSTAN IS MADE ABBOT OF GLASTONBURY BY KING EDMUND (946).
EDGAR'S CORONATION (WHITSUN DAY, 973).
THE MURDER OF KING EDWARD AT CORFE ( March 18, 978 ).
THE REDELESS KING AND THE DANES (980-1002).
THE BATTLE OF MALDON (991).
COUNTRY LIFE AT THE END OF THE TENTH CENTURY.
EDMUND AND CANUTE (1016).
PEOPLE'S DUTIES AND RIGHTS IN THE TIME OF CANUTE (c. 1025).
CANUTE'S LETTER FROM ROME (1027).
RANKS AMONG THE ENGLISH ( BETWEEN 1029 AND 1060 ).
SAXON AND NORMAN (1051).
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENGLISH BEFORE THE CONQUEST.
A NORMAN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS (1066).
THE LAST OF THE NORTHMEN AND OF THE ENGLISH (1066).
NOTE ON THE CHIEF AUTHORITIES.
Transcriber's Notes
449-1066. The Welding of the Race. Edited by the Rev. John Wallis, M.A.
1066-1154. The Normans in England. Edited by A. E. Bland, M.A.
[In preparation
1154-1216. The Angevins and the Charter. Edited by S. M. Toyne, M.A.
1216-1307. The Struggle for the Charter. Edited by W. D. Robieson, M.A.
[In preparation
1307-1399. War and Misrule. Edited by A. A. Locke.
1399-1485. The Last of Feudalism. Edited by W. Garmon Jones, M.A.
1485-1547. The Reformation and the Renaissance. Edited by F. W. Bewsher, B.A.
1547-1603. The Age of Elizabeth. Edited by Arundell Esdaile, M.A.
1603-1660. Puritanism and Liberty. Edited by Kenneth Bell, M.A.
1660-1714. A Constitution in Making. Edited by G. B. Perrett, M.A.
1714-1760. Walpole and Chatham. Edited by K. A. Esdaile.
1760-1801. American Independence and the French Revolution. Edited by S. E Winbolt, M.A.
1801-1815. England and Napoleon. Edited by S. E. Winbolt, M.A.
1815-1837. Peace and Reform. Edited by A. C. W. Edwards, M.A., Christ’s Hospital.
1856-1876. Palmerston to Disraeli. Edited by Ewing Harding, B.A.
1876-1887. Imperialism and Mr. Gladstone. Edited by R. H. Gretton, M.A.
1563-1913. Canada. Edited by James Munro, Lecturer at Edinburgh University.
Other volumes, covering the whole range of English History from Roman Britain, are in active preparation, and will be issued at short intervals.
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THE WELDING OF THE RACE
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