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Edited by
JON E. LEWIS
ROBINSON
London
For Tristram, Freda and Penny
Constable & Robinson Ltd
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First published in the UK by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2001
Collection and editorial material copyright J. Lewis-Stempel 2001
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
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ISBN 1841191329
eISBN 9781780337289
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CONTENTS
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Cornelius Tacitus
Cornelius Tacitus
Anon
Saint Gildas
Gregory I
Bede
Eddius Stephanus
Saint Boniface
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Asser
Alfred the Great
Asser
Anon
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Henry of Huntingdon
William of Malmesbury
William of Poitiers
Simeon of Durham
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anon
Anon
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
William of Malmesbury
William of Malmesbury
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
William of Newburgh
Peter of Blois
William of Newburgh
John of Salisbury
Edward Grim
William Fitz-Stephen
Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales
Anon
Roger of Hoveden
Beha-ed-Din
Roger of Wendover
Jocelin of Brakelond
Roger of Wendover
Matthew Paris
Matthew Paris
Calendar of Inquisitions
Calendar of the Coroners Rolls
Matthew of Westminster
Friar Barton
Anon
Sir John Froissart
Henry Knighton
Robert of Avesbury
John of Arderne
William Langland
City of London Letter-Book
Sir John Froissart
The Bishop of London
Customal of the Manor of Islip
William of Wykeham,
Bishop of Winchester
Adam of Usk
Jehan de Wavrin
Anon
Anon
Joan of Arc
John Russell
George Chastellain
Gabriel Tetzel
Margery Brews
Polydore Vergil
Polydore Vergil
Raimondo de Soncino
Sebastian Giustinian
George Cavendish
Henry VIII
Archbishop Cranmer
Lord Edmund Howard
John London, John Ap Rice, Richard Layton, Geoffrey Chamber, Roger Townsend
John Elder
John Foxe
A Bystander
John Highfield
Elizabeth I
Lord Ruthven
Miles Phillips
Captain John Smith
John Aubrey
Philip Stubbes
A Government Agent
Thomas Heriot
Friar William Weston
R. K. Wynkfielde
Lord Howard of Effingham
Richard Tomson
Captain Francisco De Cuellar
Lady Mildmay
Sir Walter Raleigh
Father John Gerard
The Lord Mayor and Alderman of London
Andr Hurault
Sir Robert Carey
Guy Fawkes
Sir Anthony Weldon
Gervase Markham
Fynes Moryson
John Aubrey
Sir Dudley Carleton
Sir Philip Warwick
John Rushworth
Nehemiah Wharton
C. H.
Oliver Cromwell
Robert Crotchett
Oliver Cromwell
Court Records
John Evelyn
John Evelyn
Dr Stukeley
Anon
John Ellis and Charles II
John Evelyn
Samuel Pepys
Sir Isaac Newton
Henry Teonge
John Evelyn
Anon
John Evelyn
Reverend Rowland Davies
Anon
John Bufton
Oliver Goldsmith