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THE NORMANS IN ENGLAND
(1066–1154)
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1914
INTRODUCTION
This series of English History Source Books is intended for use with any ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has conclusively shown that such apparatus is a valuable—nay, an indispensable—adjunct to the history lesson. It is capable of two main uses: either by way of lively illustration at the close of a lesson, or by way of inference-drawing, before the textbook is read, at the beginning of the lesson. The kind of problems and exercises that may be based on the documents are legion, and are admirably illustrated in a History of England for Schools, Part I., by Keatinge and Frazer, pp. 377–381. However, we have no wish to prescribe for the teacher the manner in which he shall exercise his craft, but simply to provide him and his pupils with materials hitherto not readily accessible for school purposes. The very moderate price of the books in this series should bring them within the reach of every secondary school. Source books enable the pupil to take a more active part than hitherto in the history lesson. Here is the apparatus, the raw material: its use we leave to teacher and taught.
Our belief is that the books may profitably be used by all grades of historical students between the standards of fourth-form boys in secondary schools and undergraduates at Universities. What differentiates students at one extreme from those at the other is not so much the kind of subject-matter dealt with, as the amount they can read into or extract from it.
In regard to choice of subject-matter, while trying to satisfy the natural demand for certain “stock” documents of vital importance, we hope to introduce much fresh and novel matter. It is our intention that the majority of the extracts should be lively in style—that is, personal, or descriptive, or rhetorical, or even strongly partisan—and should not so much profess to give the truth as supply data for inference. We aim at the greatest possible variety, and lay under contribution letters, biographies, ballads and poems, diaries, debates, and newspaper accounts. Economics, London, municipal, and social life generally, and local history, are represented in these pages.
The order of the extracts is strictly chronological, each being numbered, titled, and dated, and its authority given. The text is modernised, where necessary, to the extent of leaving no difficulties in reading.
We shall be most grateful to teachers and students who may send us suggestions for improvement.
S. E. WINBOLT.
KENNETH BELL.
NOTE TO THIS VOLUME
The sources from which the extracts in this volume have been drawn are contemporary, with the exception of the Dialogus de Scaccario, of which two or three passages included here appear also in the succeeding volume.
A. E. B.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| DATE | Page | |
| . | The Character of the Saxons and Normans contrasted | [1] |
| 1069. | The Harrying of the North | [3] |
| 1070. | The Resistance in the Fens | [5] |
| 1070. | The Depression of the English | [7] |
| . | Norman Measures after the Conquest, and the Fusion of the Races | [8] |
| . | The Statutes of William the Conqueror | [11] |
| . | The Ordeal of the Glowing Iron | [12] |
| . | Ordinance of William I., separating the Spiritual and Temporal Courts | [13] |
| 1072. | The Vindication of a Saxon Saint | [14] |
| 1072. | Ordinance of the Council touching the Dispute between Canterbury and York as to the Primacy | [15] |
| 1074. | The Revival of Monasticism | [17] |
| 1074. | The Conspiracy of the Earls | [18] |
| c. 1080. | The Crown and the Papacy: the Conqueror’s Letter to Hildebrand | [20] |
| 1083. | Norman Abbots and Saxon Monks | [21] |
| 1085. | The Nature of Domesday Book | [22] |
| 1085. | The Domesday Commission | [23] |
| 1085. | The Form of the Domesday Inquest | [24] |
| . | The Domesday Description of Shrewsbury | [24] |
| 1086. | The Salisbury Oath of Fealty | [26] |
| . | Homage and Fealty | [26] |
| 1087. | The Endowment of Battle Abbey | [27] |
| . | Character of William the Conqueror and of His Reign | [30] |
| . | Forests and the Royal Love of Hunting | [33] |
| . | The Training and Temperament of William Rufus | [34] |
| 1088. | The Rebellion of Bishop Odo | [36] |
| 1088. | Royal Procedure against a Bishop | [39] |
| 1093. | The Illness of William Rufus, and the Appointment of Anselm as Archbishop of Canterbury | [44] |
| 1093–94. | The Quarrel of William Rufus and Anselm | [48] |
| 1095. | The First Crusade | [52] |
| 1097. | The Pawning of Normandy | [54] |
| 1098. | The Jews under William Rufus | [54] |
| 1100. | The Death of William Rufus | [56] |
| . | The Character of the Reign of William Rufus | [57] |
| . | The Foundation of the Cistercian Order by Stephen Harding | [58] |
| . | Fashions at the Courts of William Rufus and Henry I. | [61] |
| 1101. | The Charter of Henry I. | [61] |
| 1100. | Henry I.’s Apology to Anselm for being Crowned in the Latter’s Absence | [64] |
| 1100–1107. | The Investiture Controversy | [65] |
| 1105. | Oppressive Taxation under Henry I. | [71] |
| 1106. | The Battle of Tenchebrai | [73] |
| 1107. | Consolidation of the Power of Henry I. | [73] |
| . | Charter of Liberties to the City of London | [74] |
| 1108. | Social Evils and Drastic Punishments | [76] |
| 1120. | The Shipwreck of William, son of Henry I. | [77] |
| . | A Norman Prelate | [79] |
| . | The Organisation of the Exchequer | [81] |
| . | The Development of Exchequer Procedure in Relation to Royal Revenue | [82] |
| 1126. | The Oath of the Barons to Support the Succession of Matilda the Empress | [85] |
| 1123. | The Disputed Election of an Archbishop of Canterbury | [86] |
| . | The Death and Character of Henry I. | [88] |
| 1135. | The Accession of Stephen | [89] |
| 1135. | The Perjury of the Barons | [92] |
| 1136. | The Coronation Oath of King Stephen | [92] |
| . | Feudal Anarchy | [94] |
| 1136. | Wales and the Welsh | [96] |
| 1138. | The Battle of the Standard | [97] |
| 1139. | Stephen’s Attack on the Bishops | [101] |
| . | The Character and Career of Roger, Bishop of Salisbury | [107] |
| 1141. | The Battle of Lincoln | [110] |
| 1141. | The Deposition of Stephen | [111] |
| . | The Career of Geoffrey de Mandeville | [114] |
| . | The Treaty of Peace Between Stephen and Henry | [117] |