English History for Students

CONTEMPORARY WRITERS.-The Classical Writers; Itinerarium of
Antoninus; Notitia Dignitatum. NON-CONTEMPORARY WRITERS. —
Gildas; Bede; his Historia Ecclesiastica; editions by Smith,
Moberly, Mayor and Lumby. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; edi-
tions by Thorpe and Earle; Geoffrey of Monmouth; influence of his

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Historia; the de Situ Britanniae; spuriousness of the work; the
Monumenta Historica Britannica. Hübner's Inscriptions. MODERN
WRITERS: Works on Roman, British, and Saxon Antiquities by
Horsley, Bruce, Algernon Herbert, and Stukeley; Articles by Dr.
Guest; other Authorities for points in dispute. The Ancient
British Church. Camden's Britannia

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CHAPTER II.

A.D. 450 to the Norman Conquest.

CONTEMPORARY WRITERS.-Growing importance of the Anglo-
Saxonhronicle; Asser, Ethelwerd, the Emmae Encomium, the
Vita Aedwardi; Lives of Wilfrid and St. Cuthbert; Aldhelm,
Alcuin, St. Dunstan. NON-CONTEMPORARY WRITERS. - Marianus
Scotus, Simeon of Durham, Henry of Huntingdon, Ralph of
Diceto, Peter Langtoft, William of Malmesbury, Florence of
Worcester; Lives of Edward the Confessor; Penitentials; Lives of
St. Dunstan; Early English Legislation; the Pseudo-Ingulphus.
MODERN WRITERS.-Palgrave, Kemble, Stubbs, Freeman, Waitz,
Worsaee; Freeman's Norman Conquest; Bright, Milman, and
Church; Dictionary of Christian Biography; Wright's Biographia;
Stubbs's Select Charters; Dugdale's Monasticon
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CHAPTER III.

From the Norman Conquest to the Accession of King John.
AUTHORITIES FOR NORMAN HISTORY.-Dudo of St. Quentin,
William of Jumièges, the Roman de Rou, William of Poitiers; the
Bayeux Tapestry; Guy of Amiens. CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON
ENGLISH HISTORY.-Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Eadmer, Geoffrey
Gaimar, Ordericus Vitalis, William of Malmesbury; the Gesta Ste-
phani; the Hexham Chroniclers; Aethelred of Rievaulx; Chronicles
of Melrose and Lanercost; William of Newbury; the Gesta Regis
Henrici; Roger Hoveden, Ralph of Diceto, Richard of Devizes,
Hugo Candidus, Gervase of Canterbury; other sources for reign of
Richard I.; Giraldus Cambrensis, Walter Map and John of Salis-
bury; other works of Giraldus; Poem on the Conquest of Ireland;
Works relating to the Early History of Ireland; contemporary
Satirists; Domesday Book; contemporary Biographies. Dialogus
de Scaccario. NON-CONTEMPORARY WRITER.-John of Bromp-
MODERN WRITERS.-Freeman, Stubbs, Guizot, Bryce; Lives
of Lanfranc, Anselm, Beket, and Hugh of Lincoln; Sismondi; Cox's
Crusades; Stubbs's Plantagenets

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258-269

CHAPTER IV.

From the Accession of King John to the Death of Edward II.

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CONTEMPORARY WRITERS.-The 'Chronicle' and the History;'

advance in historical composition; the School of St. Albans ;

Matthew Paris; his Historia Major; John de Cella and Roger of

Wendover; William Rishanger, Nicholas Trivet, Walter de

Coventry; the monastic Annales; the Annals of Burton, the Annals

of Winchester, the Annals of Waverley, the Annals of Dunstable, the

Annals of Osney; Thomas Wykes; the Annals of Worcester; John

of Trokelowe, the Monk of Malmesbury, Thomas de la Moor,

Adam of Murimuth, Walter Hemingford. History of Gilds; the

City Records of London,-Liber de Antiquis Legibus, Liber Albus,

and Liber Custumarum; other Records of London,- Domesday of

St. Paul's, Chroniques de London, the Chronicles of London;

Gregory's Chronicle. NON-CONTEMPORARY WRITERS.-Thomas

Walsingham, Samuel Daniel; Royal and Episcopal Letters; Papal

Letters; Letters of Grosseteste; Roll of Bishop Swinfield; Wright's

Political Songs; AUTHORITIES FOR WELSH HISTORY. AUTHO-

RITIES FOR SCOTTISH HISTORY. MODERN WRITERS.-Freeman,

Guizot, Pauli, Stubbs, Brewer, Milman, Hallam, Mullinger; Lives

of Simon de Montfort; Hook's Archbishops

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CHAPTER V.

From the Accession of Edward III. to the Death of

Richard III.

CONTEMPORARY WRITERS.-Adam of Murimuth (continued), Robert
Avesbury, Higden and John of Trevisa, Henry Knighton, Chronicle
by a Monk of St. Albans; Walsingham's Historia; French Chroni-
clers on Richard II.; Adam of Usk, John Capgrave, Thomas
Otterbourne; Lives of Henry V.; Chronique de Normandie; the
Siege of Rouen; John Amundesham, John Whethamstede; other
Chronicles for Reign of Henry VI.; Bekynton's Correspondence;
John Harding, Ric ard Grafton, Jean de Waurin, William of
Worcester, Jean de Bel, Froissart, Enguerrand de Monstrelet;
Robert Blondel; Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV.; the
Paston Letters; Richard of Bury, Reginald Pecock, Continuation
of the Croyland Chronicle; Warkworth's Chronicle; More's Richard
III., Papers of Richard III.; Docket Book of Edward V.; Robert
Fabyan; contemporary writers on Wyclif and Lollardism, Wright's
Poliual Poems. NON CONTEMPORARY WRITERS.-Polydore Ver-

gil, Hall, and Redman. MODERN WRITERS.-Lives by Pauli, Gaird
ner, Longman, Wallon, Freeman, Brougham, Hallam; Walcott's
Wykeham; Anstey's Munimenta; Hook's Archbishops; Shirley,
Gairdner, Geffcken, Kirk; Rogers's History of Prices

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CHAPTER VI.

From the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of Elizabeth.

CONTEMPORARY WRITERS.-Polydore Vergil and Hall (con-
tinued); Bernard André; the Venetian Relation'; the London
Chronicle Harpsfield and Cardinal Pole; Wriothesley's Chronicle ;
More's Utopia and Starkey's England; influences of the Reforma-
tion; Holinshed's Chronicles; John Stowe, his Summary, Annales,
and Survey of London; John Foxe, his Acts and Monuments; minor
works relating to the Reformation; Remains of Edward VI.;
Machyn's Diary; Chronicle of Queen Jane; Lives of More and
Wolsey; Hooker's Life of Carew; Camden's Life of Elizabeth; the
State Papers; Calendars of the State Papers; the Zürich Letters;
the Brief Discourse; Martin Marprelate; the Reformed Church in
Scotland,-Peterkin and Calderwood; Archbishop Spottiswoode;
Hardwicke Papers; Digges's Compleat Ambassador; Cabala; the
Somers Tracts; Proceedings of the Elizabethan Parliaments; the
Burleigh Papers; Granvelle's Correspondence; Teulet's French
Despatches; Noailles Despatches; State Papers preserved at Venice
and Simancas; materials for the history of Mary, Queen of Scots;
literature relating to the Catholics and Jesuits in England;
Winwood's Memorials; Sydney Papers; Carew Letters; Harrison's
Description of England; Stubbes's Anatomie of Abuses; Stafford's
Examination. NON-CONTEMPORARY WRITERS. -Fuller's Church
History; Collier's Church History; Burnet's History of the Reforma-
tion; Le Grand's Histoire du Divorce; Strype's Ecclesiastical
Memorials and Annals of the Reformation; Neal's Furitans; Dodd's
Church History; Hurd's Dialogue. BIOGRAPHIES. - Lives of Henry
VII. and Henry VIII. by Bacon, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and Sir
John Hayward; Fiddes' Life of Wolsey; Lewis's Life of Fisher;
Fu ler's Worthies; Strype's Lives; Lloyd's State Worthies; Wood's
Athenae Oxmienses; Nichols's Progresses. AUTHORITIES FOR
SCOTTISH HISTORY. MODERN WRITERS.- Froude, Ranke, Lin-
gard, Hausser, Haweis, Hunt, Marsden, Mot ey. Histories of the
Jesuit Order.
Cobbett's State Trials. Bruce's History of the East
India Company. Biographical works by Wordsworth and Seebohm ;
Lives of Cranmer, Parker, Grindal, Whitgift and Nowell; Lives of
Sir Christopher Hatton and Davison by Nicolas; Life of Sir Philip