HISTORY OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST.

VOL. II.

THE HISTORY

OF THE

NORMAN CONQUEST OF ENGLAND,

ITS CAUSES AND ITS RESULTS.

BY

EDWARD A. FREEMAN, M.A., HON. D.C.L. & LL.D.

LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COllege,

Knight Commander of the Greek Order of the Saviour

and of the Servian Order of Tekova,

Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg,

of the Royal Academy of Lincei of Rome,

of the Royal Society of Sciences of Göttingen,
and of the Historical Society of Massachusetts.

VOLUME II.

THE REIGN OF EADWARD THE CONFESSOR.

Φιλεῖ γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς τοῖς οὔτε ἀγχίνοις οὔτε τι οἰκόθεν μηχανᾶσθαι οἵοις τε οὖσιν,
ὴν μὴ πονηροὶ εἶεν, ἀπορουμένοις τὰ ἔσχατα ἐπικουρεῖν τε καὶ ξυλλαμβάνεσθαι.
ὁποῖον δή τι καὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ τούτῳ τετύχηκεν.-Procopius, Bell. Vand, i. 2.

THIRD EDITION, REVised.

Oxford:

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

M.DCCC.LXXVII.

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