Excerpt from The History of the English: From A. C. 55 to A. D. 1154, in Eight Books Bedam praecipai. Since that time no complete edition has appeared in this country. Savile's collection was reprinted at Frankfort in 1601. In the M onumenta H istorica 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 follow ing - 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 His toria 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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