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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 AccountGildas [3]
(ii.) The English Tradition:
(a) Bede[6]
(b) The Wessex AccountA.-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]

THE WELDING OF THE RACE

(“449”-1066)