For the period from 600 to 1066 read: Part 1 of English History (Vol. 8, pp. 466–474); and the separate articles:

Anglo-Saxon Period

For the introduction of Christianity and the “Kingdoms”—Augustine (Vol. 2, p. 910); Aethelberht (Vol. 1, p. 289); Edwin (Vol. 9, p. 7), by F. G. M. Beck, of Clare College, Cambridge; Anglo-Saxons (Vol. 2, p. 38), by H. M. Chadwick; Britain, Anglo-Saxon (Vol. 4, pp. 589–595) and Angli (Vol. 2, p. 18) and Jutes (Vol. 15, p. 609), by the same author; Saxons (Vol. 24, p. 264); Northumbria (Vol. 19, p. 793); Bernicia (Vol. 3, p. 802); Deira (Vol. 7, p. 933); East Anglia (Vol. 8, p. 827); Wessex (Vol. 28, p. 534); Mercia (Vol. 18, p. 151); Sussex, Kingdom of (Vol. 26, p. 168), and Kent (Vol. 15, p. 735), Ecgbert (Vol. 8, p. 869); Aethelwulf (Vol. 1, p. 292).

On the Danish invasions and the Anglo-Saxon period, Viking (Vol. 28, pp. 62–66), by C. F. Keary, author of The Vikings in Western Europe; Æthelbald (Vol. 1, p. 289), Æthelberht (Vol. 1, p. 289) and Æthelred I (Vol. 1, p. 290); Alfred the Great (Vol. 1, p. 582), by Charles Plummer, biographer of Alfred; Danelagh (Vol. 7, p. 803), by Prof, Allen Mawer of Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Edward “the Elder” (Vol. 8, p. 989), Æthelstan (Vol. 1, p. 291), Edmund I (Vol. 8, p. 948), Edgar (Vol. 8, p. 933), all by Prof. Mawer; St. Dunstan (Vol. 8, p. 684), Æthelred II “the Unready” (Vol. 1, p. 290), by Rev. C. Stanley Phillips, King’s College, Cambridge; Sweyn I (Vol. 26, p. 224), by R. Nisbet Bain of the British Museum; Danegeld (Vol. 7, p. 803); Canute (Vol. 5, p. 221), by R. Nisbet Bain; Edmund “Ironside” (Vol. 8, p. 948), by Rev. C. Stanley Phillips; Harold I (Vol. 13, p. 11); Hardicanute (Vol. 12, p. 942); Edward “the Confessor” (Vol. 8, p. 990), by Rev. C. Stanley Phillips; Harold II (Vol. 13, p. 11).

For the Norman Conquest and the Norman and Angevin kings the student should read the second section of the article English History (Vol. 9, pp. 474–486) and, at least, the following important articles:

William the Conqueror
William Rufus
Henry I
Stephen and Matilda
Henry II

William I, “The Conqueror” (Vol. 28, p. 659), by H. W. Carless Davis of Oxford, author of England under the Normans and Angevins; Hereward (Vol. 13, p. 363), by J. H. Round, author of Feudal England, etc.; Feudalism (Vol. 10, p. 297), by Prof. George Burton Adams, Yale University, author of Political History of England, 1066–1216, etc.; Domesday Book (Vol. 8, p. 398), by J. H. Round; William II, “Rufus” (Vol. 28, p. 661) and Lanfranc (Vol. 16, p. 169), both by H. W. Carless Davis; Anselm (Vol. 2, p. 81); Henry I (Vol. 13, p. 279), Stephen (Vol. 25, p. 881), Matilda (Vol. 17, p. 888), Henry II (Vol. 13, p. 281), Becket, Thomas (Vol. 3, p. 608), Richard I, “Coeur de Lion” (Vol. 23, p. 294), all by H. W. Carless Davis.

John Henry III Edward I to III

In connection with the third section of the article English History dealing with the struggle for constitutional liberty from 1199 to 1337 (Vol. 9, pp. 486–501) the following supplementary articles are among the many to which the student should turn: John (Vol. 15, p. 439), and Langton, Stephen (Vol. 16, p. 178), both by H. W. Carless Davis; Magna Carta (Vol. 16, p. 314), by A. W. Holland, late scholar of St. John’s, Oxford; Henry III (Vol. 13, p. 282), Pembroke (Vol. 21, p. 78), Montfort, Simon de (Vol. 18, p. 781), Evesham (Vol. 10, p. 10); Edward I (Vol. 8, p. 991–993), by Prof. T. F. Tout, University of Manchester, author of Edward I; Mortmain (Vol. 18, p. 880); Westminster, Statutes of (Vol. 28, p. 551); Edward II (Vol. 8, p. 993); Lancaster, Henry and Thomas, Earls of (Vol. 16, pp. 144 and 148); Despenser, Hugh Le (Vol. 8, p. 101); Mortimer family (Vol. 18, p. 879); and Edward III (Vol. 8, p. 994).

Richard II Henry IV to VI