The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. With Illustrative Notes, a Map of Anglo-Saxon England and a General IndexG. Bell, 1887 - 515 pages |
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Page vii
... provinces Deira and Bernicia into one monarchy . The dominions of this king extended from the Humber to the Frith of Forth , and compre- hended all the six northern counties of England , and the * Hist . of the Kings of England , book i ...
... provinces Deira and Bernicia into one monarchy . The dominions of this king extended from the Humber to the Frith of Forth , and compre- hended all the six northern counties of England , and the * Hist . of the Kings of England , book i ...
Page xvii
... provinces , i . e . Bernicia , Bede lived , was himself a man of singular learning , and a very great encourager of it in others ; and had , doubtlessly , an extraordinary respect for Bede , as appears by his request to him to write the ...
... provinces , i . e . Bernicia , Bede lived , was himself a man of singular learning , and a very great encourager of it in others ; and had , doubtlessly , an extraordinary respect for Bede , as appears by his request to him to write the ...
Page xxvii
... province as of those which were much more remote from Jarrow . He received some mate- rials from bishop Cynebert , but they appear to have been scanty , for the circumstances which relate to Lincoln . shire are generally derived from ...
... province as of those which were much more remote from Jarrow . He received some mate- rials from bishop Cynebert , but they appear to have been scanty , for the circumstances which relate to Lincoln . shire are generally derived from ...
Page xxxvii
... provinces of the Heptarchy ; which formed together the groundwork of his history . With greater honesty than most of his followers , he has given us the names of those six of which contain about seventy letters on . y . On coming to ...
... provinces of the Heptarchy ; which formed together the groundwork of his history . With greater honesty than most of his followers , he has given us the names of those six of which contain about seventy letters on . y . On coming to ...
Page xxxviii
... provinces of the Heptarchy before the time of Bede , let us inquire by whom they were likely to have been made . " In the province of Kent , the first person on record , who is celebrated for his learning , is Tobias , the ninth bishop ...
... provinces of the Heptarchy before the time of Bede , let us inquire by whom they were likely to have been made . " In the province of Kent , the first person on record , who is celebrated for his learning , is Tobias , the ninth bishop ...
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