THE

HISTORY

OF THE

REBELLION and CIVIL WARS

IN

ENGLAND.

Begun in the Year 1641.

VOLUME I. PART I.

Dare not to speak any Falsehood:
and, Dare to speak any Truth. –

Published in 1705.
& Dedicated, to

Queen Anne

Cooke's Argument in Ante Normanni N. 30. 31. 32.

of

The prejudice and art of our Vistorians -
have de sended the prerogative of our the nauty
by supposing that the Title of the Lake
Normandy to the Crown of England, was bis
Conquest: and that we are indebted for our
Arésdom to the Usurpations of the Peorie on
the priviledges of our Rings. But it ap:
play from the Tapestry which was found
in the Catheral of Bayeux; and from other
• Honuments of our Sistory, that Duker
William was called to the succession by the
destination of Edward with the consent,
of the great Council of the i Vation : and
to
that torrold was sent to Normandy.
2
in forme sim of this circumstance; an ou
which that No Sleman would have pe
if that message has proceeded only from -
The Confessor.

Nis. Invasion it has been said was hostile ? this Quarrell howevice was not with the Nai

Fion, but with Narold. __ The Victory of Mast : : ings was obtained over the Person of that itsurper, not over the lights of the People and William received the Brown with all its intresent rights & Properties, au's. subject to the faws.

t.

• B. an Acquisition of Territory by any mon is implies in the word i ongreet und an acquisition by Purchase or successions and not by Victory, is the sense in with it is most frequently used in ancient, Records and distories...

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DEUS NOBISS

Edward Earl of CLARENDON Lord High CHANCELLOR of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford AnDi 1667.