CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
CHAPTER I.
The Britons.—Romans.—Saxons.—The Heptarchy.—The Kingdom of Kent— of Northumberland—of East Anglia—of Mercia—of Essex—of Sussex—of Wessex
CHAPTER II.
Egbert.—Ethelwolf.—Ethelbald and Ethelbert.—Ethered.—Alfred the
Great.—Edward the Elder.—Athelstan.—Edmund.-Edred.—Edwy.—Edgar.—
Edward the Martyr
CHAPTER III.
Ethelred.—Settlement of the Normans.—Edmund Ironside.—Canute.—
Harold Harefoot.—Hardicanute.—Edward the Confessor.—Harold
APPENDIX I.
THE ANGLO-SAXON GOVERNMENT AND MANNERS.
First Saxon Government.—Succession of the Kings.—The Wittenagemot.—
The Aristocracy.—The several Orders of Men.—Courts of Justice.—
Criminal Law.—Rules of Proof.-Military Force.—Public Revenue.—Value
of Money.—Manners