TO

QUEEN VICTORIA

THE WORKS

OF

HER ILLUSTRIOUS FOREFATHER

King Alfred the Great

ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

His Excellency Chevalier BUNSEN, ambassador from the king of Prussia.

Right Hon. the Earl of ELLESMERE.
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St David's.

Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of OXFORD.
Right Hon. Lord Viscount Mahon, Grosvenor Place.

Right Hon. Lord LONDESBOROUGH.
Lieut.-Colonel R. ANSTRUTHER, 4 Chepstow Villas, Bayswater.

Rev. C. D. BRERETON, Little Massingham, Norfolk.

Rev. J. L. BRERETON, Alfred Club, London.
John Britton esq., F. S. A. &c., 17 Burton Street, Burton Crescent.

Bolton CORNEY esq. M. R. S. Lower Barnes, Surrey,

W.J. EVELYN esq., M.P., Wotton, Surrey.
C. Eyston esq, Hendred House, near Wantage, Berkshire.
Rev. Dr GILES, Bampton, Oxford (Honorary Secretary.)
Rev. T. GILLETT, Bury St Edmund's.

D. HOFFMAN esq.
Rev. J. S. Howson, Principal of the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool.
J. HUGHES esq., Donnington. Priory, near Newbury, Berkshire.

H. W. PICKERSGILL esq. R. A. 18 Soho Square.
Dr PLUMPTRE, Master of University Coll

. Oxf. and Vice-chan. of the University.
P. PUSEY esq., M. P., Pusey house, Berkshire.
Sir Walter C. TREVELYAN, Bart. Nettlecomb Court, Somersetshire.

M. F. TUPPER esq., Albury, Guildford.
Rev. Dr WHEWELL, master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge.

Editors and Contributors.

J. Y. AKERMAN esq., author of Coins of the Romans, &c.
Dr BELL,

Foreign Secretary to the Archæological Association.
Rev. Dr Bosworth, author of the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary,
J. Britton esq. F. S. A., author of Cathedral Antiquities, &c.
J. S. CARDALE esq., editor of Boethius.
Rev. J. Earle, Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oriel College Oxford.
T. FORESTER esq. author of Norway in 1849, &c.
Rev. S. Fox, editor of the Anglo-Sax. Poetical Calendar.
Rev. Dr Giles, author of Life and Times of Alfred the Great, &c.
Rev. D. Haigh, author of the Coins of East Anglia, &c.
Dr Pauli, of the University of Berlin.
B. THORPE esq., editor of Ancient laws, &'c. of England.
M. F. TUPPER esq., F. R. S. author of Proverbial Philosophy.
T. Wright esq., author of Anglo-Saxon Biography, &c.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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VOL. I.

Page

Preface

ix

I. Harmony of the Chroniclers during the life of King Alfred ; A. D. 849—901:
by the Rev. Dr Giles

xvii

II. Sketch of the Anglo-Saxon Mint ; by J. Y. Akerman esq. .

129

III. Description of all the coins of King Alfred now remaining; with seven

plates, containing fac-similes of all those coins : by the Rev. D. Haigh. 137

IV. A Metrical English Version of King Alfred's Poems; to illustrate Anglo-

Saxon Poetry in general : by Martin Farquhar Tupper esq. D. C. L. 157

V. History and Political State of Europe in the ninth centuary, The Age of

King Alfred the Great: by T. Forester esq.

255

VI. Description of King Alfred's Jewel, with some observations on the art of

working in gold and silver among the Anglo-Saxons : by the Rev. Dr Giles. 327

VII. The Danes. 1. Their origin. 2. Their warlike deeds and character-

4. Their religion—4. Their polity.–5. Their love and mode of war.–6. Their

manners customs and occupations——7. Their arts and language : by C. Hook

esq.

337

VIII. King Alfred's Charters, translated from the Latin and Anglo-Saxon

originals in Kemble's Codex Anglo-Saxonicus : by Dr Giles

379

IX. King Alfred's Will : by Dr Giles

399

X. Tabular View of the Decline and Fall of the Heptarchy in the life - time

of King Alfred : by Dr Giles.

411

XI. Domestic Manners and Habits of the Anglo-Saxons : by G. Soane esq. 113

XII. Traces of the Danes in England: by T. Forester esq.

49%

XIII. Grimbald's Crypt (with a plate) : by Dr Giles.

542

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