THE HISTORY OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF ENGLAND, ITS CAUSES AND ITS RESULTS.

BY

EDWARD A. FREEMAN, M.A., Hon. D.C.L. & LL.D.

LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE,

Knight Commander of the Greek Order of the Saviour

and of the Servian Order of Tekova,

Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg,

of the Royal Academy of Lincei of Rome,

of the Royal Society of Sciences of Göttingen,

and of the Historical Society of Massachusetts.

VOLUME I.

THE PRELIMINARY HISTORY TO THE ELECTION OF EADWARD THE CONFESSOR.

Αἰνέσωμεν δὴ ἄνδρας ἐνδόξους, καὶ τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν τῇ γενέσει.... κυριεύοντες ἐν ταῖς βασιλείαις αὐτῶν.... βουλεύσονται ἐν συνέσει αὐτῶν.... ἡγούμενοι λαοῦ ἐν διαβουλίοις.—Ecclus. c. xliv.

THIRD EDITION, REVISED.

Oxford:

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

M.DCCC.LXXVII.

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