1.Conversion of Ethelbert[Frontispiece.]
2.Combat between Romans and Britons[22]
3.Caractacus carried captive to Rome[33]
4.Vortigern and Rowena[67]
5.Alfred describing the Danish Camp[180]
6.Alfred releasing the Family of Hastings[188]
7.Dunstan dragging King Edwin from Elgiva[224]
8.The Welsh Tribute of Wolves' Heads[232]
9.Canute rebuking his Courtiers[262]
10.Harold Swearing on the Relics of the Saints[300]
11.Discovery of the Body of Harold[338]
12.Trial by Ordeal[346]

[FOOTNOTES]

[1] History of Scotland, vol. i. p. 9.

[2] Turner's "Anglo-Saxons," to which I am indebted for many of the facts recorded in this chapter.

[3] Turner's Anglo-Saxons, vol. i. p 293.

[4] A Catholic History of England. By William Bernard Mac Cabe. Carefully compiled from our earliest records, and purporting to be a literal translation of the writings of the old chroniclers, miracles, visions, &c. from the time of Gildas; richly illustrated with notes, which throw a clear, and in many instances a new light on what would otherwise be difficult and obscure passages.

[5] Thierry's Norman Conquest; Turner's Anglo-Saxons, and the early English Chronicles.

[6] Thierry's Norman Conquest.

[7] Turner's "Anglo-Saxons," vol. 2, p. 248. Although we differ from this honest and able historian in many of the inferences he has drawn from undisputed facts, we believe no writer ever sat down with a firmer determination to do justice to the memory of the dead than Sharon Turner.

[8] At page 277 of Turner's "Anglo-Saxons," vol. ii., is the commencement of a long and valuable note on the ancient lives of St. Dunstan, which are still extant.