INTRODUCTION. editions of toria An THE Historia Anglorum of Henry of Huntingdon Previous was first printed by Sir Henry Savile in 1596, in the the Hisvolume entitled, Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post glorum. Bedam præcipui. Since that time no complete edition has appeared in this country. Savile's collection was reprinted at Frankfort in 1601. In the Monumenta Historica Britannica (1848) Mr. Petrie, who, as a rule, did not print any portion of the chronicles contained in that volume which passed the limit of 1066, reproduced, out of the eight books published by Savile, the following:-Books i., ii.; Book iv. (except the proceedings of the Council of Heathfield with which it opens); Book v.; Book vi., to the end of the battle of Hastings. Mr. Petrie omitted the third book, which is hardly more than an abridged re-arrangement of portions of Beda's Historia Ecclesiastica, as not possessing sufficient historical value to be printed. Had Mr. Petrie lived to complete his design, the remainder of our author's history would doubtless have appeared in the second volume of the Monumenta. As it was, the Monumenta Historica Britannica remained a colossal fragment, incorporating a number of other fragments; but the profound and patient investigation, of which the results are embodied in the Preface and Prolegomena, can never cease to command the gratitude and merit the attention of students. § 2. Wharton in his Anglia Sacra (1691) printed the epistle to Walter, De Contemptu Mundi, which Henry included in the eighth book of the later editions of his |