ALFRED THE GREAT
Reading edition
KING ALFRED’S JEWEL
BRITAIN IN TIME OF ALFRED
Alfred the Great
CONTAINING Chapters on his Life and Times BY MR. FREDERIC HARRISON, THE LORD BISHOP OF BRISTOL PROFESSOR CHARLES OMAN, SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM THE REV. PROFESSOR EARLE, SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK AND THE REV. W. J. LOFTIE; ALSO CONTAINING AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR WALTER BESANT AND A POEM BY THE POET LAUREATE
EDITED, WITH PREFACE, BY ALFRED BOWKER MAYOR OF WINCHESTER 1897-98
‘This will I say—that I have sought to live worthily the while I lived, and after my life to leave to the men that come after me a remembering of me in good works.’
LONDON ADAM & CHARLES BLACK 1899
TO Her Majesty the Queen BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED