Peculiar Circumstances which contribute to render Bri- Slow Progress of the Saxons in the Invasion of Britain 519. Principalities of Deira and Bernicia, formed by the Angles - State of the Island during the Period called the Hep- Miracles ascribed to St. Augustine: mistaken, but honest Ascendancy of one Saxon State over the Rest: Authority At this Point, just on the Approach towards regular Go- vernment, Britain begins to be ravaged by the Barba- Ravages of the Danes: "All the Saxons are defeated but 877-880. He bursts from his Retreat, defeats Guthrun the Danish 895-899. Invasion of Hastings: in providing for Defence, Al- Character of Alfred: extraordinary Union of Energy in 901-1066. Fourteen Kings; Ten of them Descendants of Alfred, The Christian Church was the only Institution transmitted Origin of Clerical Celibacy: Corruption engendered by it; its Value as an Instrument of Ecclesiastical Ambition by destroying all Ties but those of the Order - 44-47 The monastic Orders called forth by a Reaction of reli- Athelstan: Confederacy against him by the Britons, Scots, Dunstan, his Attempts to enforce clerical Celibacy, and Edgar obliges his Brother Edwin to divide his Dominions Dunstan recalled and made Archbishop of Canterbury 977, 978. Synods of Calne and Winchester: miraculous Preten- Death of Edgar: Succession disputed between Edward his eldest Son, and Ethelred, Son of Elfrida: Edward Attempts of the Danes to place One of their Nation on Horrid Cruelties of both Parties in this Warfare Let those who consider any Tribes of Men as irreclaimable, call to mind of what People these were the Progenitors - 60 58-60 of the Thames: he dies in November, and Canute the Dane succeeds to the Territory of both Nations:- 68 88 (Nov. 12.) Death of Canute: Harold his Son succeeds Ineffectual Attempts of Etheldred's Sons, Edward and Edward, Ethelred's Son, succeeds on the Death of Hardi- William, Duke of Normandy, visits Edward Harold, Son of Godwin, crowned by the Saxon Chiefs : 288 View of the Saxon Institutions. Antiquaries have adapted their Representations of our ancient Constitution to their own particular Views; both Parties agreeing in the fundamental Error of supposing Governments are not framed by a Model: occasional Acts harden into Usages, and Usages govern Men long before they are embodied in written Laws Numbers of the respective Classes: Doomsday-book Saxon Writers: Venerable Bede born, A. D. 663, died 735 William Duke of Normandy; the Establishment, by his Neustria ceded to Rollo, Son of the Earl of Orkney, by 90, 91 Assertion of William that Edward had bequeathed the Harold had sworn to support William's Claim (28th of September) William lands at Pevensey in Sussex 97 (14th of October) Battle of Hastings; Death of Harold 100, 101 After re-establishing Peter's Pence as an Acknowledge- Edgar Atheling acknowledged King in the North, aided 1087. (9th of September) Death of William; his Character 111, 112 Two legal Revolutions completed in this Reign, the Separ- Without the former, it is probable that the Spiritual Power would have been predominant over every other 114 With regard to the Feudal System, the most reasonable Supposition is, that it was gradually prepared in Anglo- 115-117 In resisting his Brother Robert, he is obliged to seek the His Government an Union of Rapacity with Prodigality Were the Crusades just? It was a Defence of an Exercise Wars to impose Religion are the most execrable Violation (August) Crowned at Westminster, after a faint Resist- Attempts to conciliate the English by promising to restore |