The History Of England Volume I From The Invasion Of Julius Cae

Chapter 3

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Ethelred.--Settlement of the Normans.--Edmund Ironside.--Canute.-- Harold Harefoot.--Hardicanute.--Edward the Confessor.--Harold

APPENDIX I.

THE ANGLO-SAXON GOVERNMENT AND MANNERS.

First Saxon Government.--Succession of the Kings.--The Wittenagemot.-- The Aristocracy.--The several Orders of Men.--Courts of Justice.-- Criminal Law.--Rules of Proof.-Military Force.--Public Revenue.--Value of Money.--Manners