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| [Introduction] | | [v] |
| “449.” | [The Coming of the English]:— | | |
| | 1. Contemporary Evidence: | | |
| | | (a) Chronica Gallica | | |
| | | (b) Constantius | | [1] |
| | 2. Later Evidence: | | |
| | | (i.) A Briton’s Account | Gildas | [3] |
| | | (ii.) The English Tradition: | | |
| | | | (a) Bede | | [6] |
| | | | (b) The Wessex Account | A.-S. Chronicle | [8] |
| 597. | [The Mission of Augustine] | Bede | [10] |
| c. 600. | [Ethelbert’s Dooms] | Thorpe | [13] |
| 601. | [Pope Gregory’s Letter to Augustine on the Organisation of the Church] | | [15] |
| 603. | [Augustine’s Attempt to unite the Roman and the Celtic Churches] | Bede | [17] |
| 625. | [Paulinus and Edwin] | Bede | [19] |
| 627. | [Edwin of Northumbria holds a Conference] | Bede | [22] |
| 635. | [The Character of Bishop Aidan] | Bede | [24] |
| 642. | [Oswin of Northumbria and Aidan] | Bede | [25] |
| 664. | [The Synod of Whitby] | Bede | [27] |
| 664. | [Abbot Benedict Biscop’s Zeal for Religious Art] | Bede | [28] |
| 673. | [The Synod of Hertford] | Bede | [31] |
| 678. | [Theodore and Wilfrid] | Eddius Stephanus | [34] |
| 680. | [The Story of Cæedmon] | Bede | [35] |
| 681. | [Wilfrid converts the South Saxons] | Bede | [37] |
| 687. | [Saint Cuthbert (1) as Abbot, (2) as Anchorite] | Bede | [39] |
| c. 700. | [The Dooms of Ine] | Thorpe | [41] |
| 716. | [Ceolfrid, Abbot of Jarrow] | Bede | [44] |
| 720-730. | [A Riddle of Cynewulf] | | [48] |
| 722. | [Pope Gregory II. commends Boniface] | | [49] |
| 731. | [The State of England] | Bede | [50] |
| 731. | [Bede’s Account of Himself, his Historical Authorities and Methods] | Bede | [52] |
| 786. | [The Faithful Thegns] | A.-S. Chronicle | [54] |
| 787-870. | [The Coming of the Danes] | A.-S. Chronicle | [56] |
| 796. | [A Letter from Charles the Great to Offa] | | [59] |
| 827. | [The Bretwaldas] | A.-S. Chronicle | [61] |
| 871-878. | [Alfred and the Danes] | A.-S. Chronicle | [62] |
| c. 885. | [Alfred and Guthrum’s Peace] | Thorpe | [66] |
| c. 890. | [Alfred’s Dooms] | Thorpe | [67] |
| c. 890. | [Ohthere’s Voyage of Exploration, told to King Alfred] | Alfred’s “Orosius” | [70] |
| 907-925. | [Edward’s Policy] | A.-S. Chronicle | [73] |
| c. 930. | [Athelstan’s Doom concerning Hot Iron and Water] | Thorpe | [76] |
| 937. | [The Battle of Brunanburh] | A.-S. Chronicle | [77] |
| 940. | [A Land Boc] | Earle | [79] |
| 946. | [Dunstan is made Abbot of Glastonbury by King Edmund] | “B.” | [82] |
| 973. | [Edgar’s Coronation, Whitsun Day] | Anon. | [84] |
| 978. | [The Murder of Edward at Corfe] | Anon. | [86] |
| 980-1002. | [The Redeless King and the Danes] | A.-S. Chronicle | [88] |
| 991. | [The Battle of Maldon] | A.-S. Poem | [92] |
| c. 1000. | [Country Life at the End of the Tenth Century] | Ælfric | [95] |
| 1016. | [Edmund and Canute] | A.-S. Chronicle | [100] |
| c. 1025. | [Peoples’ Duties and Rights in the Time of Canute] | Thorpe | [103] |
| 1027. | [Canute’s Letter from Rome] | William of Malmesbury | [107] |
| 1029-1060. | [Ranks among the English] | Thorpe | [110] |
| 1051. | [Saxon and Norman] | A.-S. Chronicle | [110] |
| [Characteristics of the English before the Conquest] | William of Malmesbury | [113] |
| 1066. | [A Norman Account of the Battle of Hastings] | William of Malmesbury | [115] |
| 1066. | [The Last of the Northmen and of the English] | A.-S. Chronicle | [117] |
| [Note on the Chief Authorities] | | [119] |