of acknowledging my indebtedness to the ingenuity and intelligence displayed by them in the discovery of certain illustrative documents. I have been constantly aided in the work of selection, translation, and editing by Dr. Helen Gertrude Preston of the Girls' High School of Philadelphia. Professor James Harvey Robinson, the editor of the series of which this volume is a part, through our long labors together over manuscript and proof, has often contributed the last and best word of suggestion, advice, or decision. EDWARD P. CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CONTENTS CHAPTER I-THE GEOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND I. Accounts by Ancient Geographical Observers 1. Cæsar's description of Britain. De Bello Gallico, Lib. v, c. 13. 2. Description by Diodorus Siculus Library of Histories, Lib. v, cc. 21, 22; trans. in Monumenta I. The First Contact of the Romans with the Britons 7. Cæsar's description of his first invasion. De Bello Gallico, Lib. iv, cc. 20-27. 16. The conquest of Anglesea and the revolt of Boadicea TACITUS, Annales, Lib. xiv, cc. 30, 33-38. II. The Organization and Defense of the Province Ecclesiastical History of England, Lib. i, c. xv; ed. and trans. 27. Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 39 41 35. Description of Cadmon Ibid. Lib. iv, c. 24, in Cook and TINKER, Translations from 36. A selection from the Exodus, a poem in imitation of HADDAN and STUBBS, Vol. III, pp. 496 sq. 39. Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 787-882 THORPE, Diplomatarium Anglicanum, pp. 336 sqq. 45. Ordinance of King Edgar for the meeting of the hun- dred, borough, and shire courts, about A.D. 975. THORPE, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, Vol. I, |