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... death of his successor at York , is expanded into a long and interesting story , not without a touch of the super- natural , in which the Danes are invited to invade Nor- thumbria by a thane to avenge his wife's dishonour . " The motif ...
... death of his successor at York , is expanded into a long and interesting story , not without a touch of the super- natural , in which the Danes are invited to invade Nor- thumbria by a thane to avenge his wife's dishonour . " The motif ...
Página xxiii
... death of Cenwulf , King of the Mercians , seven years after Ecgbryht's raid in West Wales . Of the six texts of the A. S. Chronicle printed by Thorpe only two afford a basis for such a statement . Tiberius B.I. ( called by Josselyn ...
... death of Cenwulf , King of the Mercians , seven years after Ecgbryht's raid in West Wales . Of the six texts of the A. S. Chronicle printed by Thorpe only two afford a basis for such a statement . Tiberius B.I. ( called by Josselyn ...
Página xxv
... death of his brother Niel five years before ; and even the detail of the weapon being a sword is added . Unfortunately Eadward died before Sihtric , according to the A. S. Chronicle , and there is no reason to doubt its accuracy . That ...
... death of his brother Niel five years before ; and even the detail of the weapon being a sword is added . Unfortunately Eadward died before Sihtric , according to the A. S. Chronicle , and there is no reason to doubt its accuracy . That ...
Página xxvii
... death , however , Gaimar calls him by his right name , 3 though he wrongly states that he was buried at Thet- ford instead of Hadleigh , in Suffolk , where his tomb is still shown . The plundering of the abbeys of St. Valeri and St ...
... death , however , Gaimar calls him by his right name , 3 though he wrongly states that he was buried at Thet- ford instead of Hadleigh , in Suffolk , where his tomb is still shown . The plundering of the abbeys of St. Valeri and St ...
Página xxix
... death of Cenwulf of Mercia at Basingwerk is a statement the source of which is not known , but the burial of Swegen at York , though not in the Anglo- Saxon Chronicles , is confirmed by , or derived from , Simeon of Durham , " who wrote ...
... death of Cenwulf of Mercia at Basingwerk is a statement the source of which is not known , but the burial of Swegen at York , though not in the Anglo- Saxon Chronicles , is confirmed by , or derived from , Simeon of Durham , " who wrote ...
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Página iii - Rolls suggested that the editor should give an account of the MSS. employed by him, of their age and their peculiarities ; that he should add to the work a brief account of the life and times of the author, and any remarks necessary to explain the chronology ; but no other note or comment was to be allowed, except what might be necessary to establish the correctness of the text...
Página 31 - HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION. REPORTS OF THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO INQUIRE WHAT PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS BELONGING TO PRIVATE FAMILIES AND INSTITUTIONS ARE EXTANT WHICH WOULD BE OF UTILITY IN THE ILLUSTRATION OF HISTORY, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, SCIENCE AND GENERAL LITERATURE. Date.
Página 21 - OR, DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF ACADEMICAL LIFE AND STUDIES AT OXFORD (in Two Parts). Edited by the Rev. HENRY ANSTEY, MA, Vicar of St. Wendron, Cornwall, and lately Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. 1868. This work will supply materials for a History of Academical Life and Studies in the University of Oxford during the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. 51.
Página 7 - Documents in his charge constitute the most " complete and perfect series of their kind in the civilized world," and although " they are of the greatest value in a historical and constitutional " point of view, yet they are comparatively useless to the public, from the " want of proper Calendars and Indexes...
Página iii - MAJESTY'S TREASURY. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS. ON the 26th of January 1857, the Master of the Rolls submitted to the Treasury a proposal for the publication of materials for the History of this Country from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of Henry VIII.
Página iv - They expressed their approbation of the proposal that each Chronicle and historical document should be edited in such a manner as to represent with all possible correctness the text of each writer, derived from a collation of the best MSS., and that no notes should be added, except such as were illustrative of the various readings. They suggested, however, that the preface to each work should contain, in addition to the particulars proposed by the Master of the...
Página 16 - There are at present six independent manuscripts of the Saxon Chronicle, ending in different years, and written in different parts of the country. In this edition, the text of each manuscript is printed in columns on the same page...
Página 16 - may be considered the earliest piece of good theological disquisition of which our English prose literature can boast. The author was born about the end of the fourteenth century, consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph in the year 1444, and translated to the see of Chichester in 1450. While Bishop of St. Asaph, he zealously defended his brother prelates from the attacks of those who censured the bishops for their neglect of duty. He maintained that it was no part of a bishop's functions to appear in the...
Página 13 - Price 10s. each Volume or Part..] On 25 July 1822, the House of Commons presented an address to the Crown, stating that the editions of the works of our ancient historians were inconvenient and defective ; that many of their writings still remained in manuscript, and, in some cases, in a single copy only. They added, " that an uniform and convenient edition of the whole, published under His Majesty's royal sanction, would be an undertaking honourable...
Página 14 - WALDEN, Provincial of the Carmelite Order in England, and Confessor to King Henry the Fifth. Edited by the Rev. WW SHIRLEY, MA, Tutor and late Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. 6. THE BUIK OF THE CRONICLIS OF SCOTLAND ; or, A Metrical Version of the History of Hector Boece ; by WILLIAM STEWART.