The Sources and Literature of English History from the Earliest Times to about 1485 |
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... give some account of the contents and a brief estimate of the value of the books named ; and they agree in asserting that the labour of pre- paring such a treatise can be successfully undertaken only 1 For existing bibliographies , see ...
... give some account of the contents and a brief estimate of the value of the books named ; and they agree in asserting that the labour of pre- paring such a treatise can be successfully undertaken only 1 For existing bibliographies , see ...
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... give an inade- quate commentary than to allow students to grope in utter darkness . The book is the outcome of an annual course of lectures on the sources and literature of English history delivered at Harvard University from 1890 to ...
... give an inade- quate commentary than to allow students to grope in utter darkness . The book is the outcome of an annual course of lectures on the sources and literature of English history delivered at Harvard University from 1890 to ...
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... gives the best account of the earli- est coins of Britain ; Hildebrand and Keary ( Nos . 388-9 ) are the best authorities on Anglo - Saxon coins . A useful short account of Anglo - Saxon coinage will be found in Reinhold Schmid's ...
... gives the best account of the earli- est coins of Britain ; Hildebrand and Keary ( Nos . 388-9 ) are the best authorities on Anglo - Saxon coins . A useful short account of Anglo - Saxon coinage will be found in Reinhold Schmid's ...
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... gives much useful information . A number of valuable lists and indexes of records have been printed , and many manuscript indexes are accessible in the Public Record Office : No. 473 . 457. ARCHIVIST . On the history , position , and ...
... gives much useful information . A number of valuable lists and indexes of records have been printed , and many manuscript indexes are accessible in the Public Record Office : No. 473 . 457. ARCHIVIST . On the history , position , and ...
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... ) . The first report gives an account of the contents of the principal reposi- tories of Irish public records . See below , app . A. 493. Return of all the record publications relating to England § 12 ] 61 PUBLIC RECORDS.
... ) . The first report gives an account of the contents of the principal reposi- tories of Irish public records . See below , app . A. 493. Return of all the record publications relating to England § 12 ] 61 PUBLIC RECORDS.
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12th century 2nd edition 3rd edition 4th edition abbey ancient Anglia Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Annales appendix Archæol Archæologia Bede Berlin Bibliotheca Biography bishop borough Bristol Britain British Calendar Cambridge Canterbury Catalogue of Materials cathedral Celtic charters chartulary Chronicon church circa collection compiled conquest Contains Deals mainly Dictionary documents Domesday Book Dublin Durham early ecclesiæ Edward Edward III England English Hist English history Epistolæ essay exchequer extracts Geschichte Gildas H. R. Luard Hardy Henry Henry II Henry of Huntingdon Historia Britonum history and antiquities ibid Index Ireland Irish J. A. Giles James John kings Latin Leipsic Liebermann London Maitland manor manorial medieval monastery monk Nennius Norwich origin Oxford Paris pipe rolls printed priory public records reign relating reprinted Richard Rolls Series Roman Royal saga Scriptores Simeon of Durham Stevenson Stubbs Thomas translation treatise valuable Vita vols Wales Welsh William written
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Page 528 - 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. 1870 (Reprinted 1874.) 1871 1872 (Reprinted 1895.) 1873 FIUST REPORT, WITH APPENDIX Contents : — ENGLAND. House of Lords ; Cambridge Colleges ; Abingdon and other Corporations, &c. SCOTLAND. Advocates' Library,...
Page 391 - BISHOP BECKINGTON'S JOURNAL, during his Embassy to negotiate a marriage between Henry VI. and a daughter of Count Armagnac, AD 1442.
Page 200 - ... comprising Laws supposed to be enacted by Howel the Good ; modified by subsequent Regulations under the Native Princes, prior to the Conquest by Edward the First ; and anomalous Laws, consisting principally of Institutions which, by the Statute of Ruddlan, were admitted to continue in force.
Page 52 - HISTORY OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF WELLS, as illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old Foundation. Crown 8vo.
Page 39 - Doyle. — THE OFFICIAL BARONAGE OF ENGLAND. By JAMES E. DOYLE. Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of every Peer from 1066 to 1885.
Page 469 - Among the rest was a large collection of original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. Richard III. and Henry VII. by such of the Paston family...
Page 65 - Handbook to the Library of the British Museum, containing a brief History of its Formation, and of the various Collections of which it is composed, Descriptions of the Catalogues in present use, Classed Lists of the Manuscripts...
Page 399 - ... illustrative of manorial law and custom, a department of law which has hitherto been much neglected, but which is of the very highest interest to all students of economic and social history. (a) In the first place we have numerous "extents" of manors, ie descriptions which give us the number and names of the tenants, the size of their holdings, the legal character of their tenure and the kind and amount of their service ; the " extent " is a statement of all these things made by a jury of tenants....
Page 154 - A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the Invasion of the Romans, to the Accession of Queen Victoria.
Page 244 - AEVI SAXONICI ; or, An Alphabetical List of the Heads of Religious Houses in England previous to the Norman Conquest, to which is prefixed a Chronological Catalogue of Contemporary Foundations. By Walter de Gray Birch. 8vo, pp. vii. and 114, cloth. 1873.