THE

HISTORY

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

FROM THE

FIRST INVASION OF IT BY THE ROMANS
UNDER JULIUS CÆSAR.

WRITTEN ON A NEW PLAN.

By ROBERT HENRY, D.D.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF EDINBURGH, MEMBER OF THE
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIANS OF SCOTLAND, AND OF
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.

THE THIRD EDITION.

VOLUME THE THIR D.

LONDON:

Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street;

FOR A. STRAHAN; AND T. CADELL JUN. AND W. DAVIES,

40

LIR

NEW YORK

CONTENTS

OF THE

THIRD VOLUM E.

BOOK II.

CHAP. I.

The Civil and Military Hiftory of Great

Britain, from the arrival of the Saxons,

A. D. 449, to the landing of William duke

of Normandy, A. D. 1066.

Sect, I.

From the arrival of the Saxons, A. D. 449,

to A. D. 600

Page

Sect. 2.
From A. D. 600, to the acceffion of Egbert,

the first English monarch, A. D. 801

Sect. 3. From the acceffion of Egbert, A. D.-801,

to the acceffion of Edward the Elder, A. D. 901

Sect. 4. From the acceffion of Edward the Elder,

A. D. 901, to the Death of Edward the Martyr,

A. D. 978

21

61

90

Sect.

Sect 5. From the acceffion of Ethelred the Un-

ready, A. D. 978, to the landing of William duke

of Normandy, A. D. 1066

Page 116

CHA P. II.

Hiftory of Religion in Great Britain, from

the arrival of the Saxons, A. D. 449, to the

landing of William duke of Normandy,

A. D. 1066

Sect. 1. The hiftory and delineation of the religion

of the heathen Saxons, from their arrival in Bri-

tain, A. D. 449, to the coming of Auftin for their

converfion, A. D. 596, with a brief account of

the ftate of the Chriftian churches in Britain in

that period

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168

Sect. 2. The hiftory of religion in Great Britain,

from the arrival of Austin, A. D. 596, to A. D.

Hiftory of the Conftitution, Government, and

Laws of Great Britain, from the arrival of

the Saxons, A. D. 449, to the landing of

William duke of Normandy, A. D. 1066 299

Sect. 1.
A brief account of the feveral German na-

tions which fettled in Britain in this period;-of the

places of their original feats on the continent;-of

the