1066 AND ALL THAT [Illustration: Magna Garter] 1066 AND ALL THAT _A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates_ _BY_ WALTER CARRUTHERS SELLAR Aegrot: Oxon: _AND_ ROBERT JULIAN YEATMAN Failed M.A., etc. Oxon: _ILLUSTRATED BY_ JOHN REYNOLDS, Gent. METHUEN & CO. LTD. LONDON _36 Essex Street, Strand, W.C.2_ _DEDICATION_ ABSIT OMAN _This book was originally published October 16th 1930 It has been reprinted thirty-four times Thirty-fifth edition, 1951_ CATALOGUE NO. 3858/U PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN COMPULSORY PREFACE (THIS MEANS YOU) Histories have previously been written with the object of exalting their authors. The object of this History is to console the reader. _No other history does this._ History is not what you thought. _It is what you can remember._ All other history defeats itself. This is the only Memorable History of England, because all the History that you can remember is in this book, which is the result of years of research in golf-clubs, gun-rooms, green-rooms, etc. For instance, 2 out of the 4 Dates originally included were eliminated at the last moment, a research done at the Eton and Harrow match having revealed that they are _not memorable_. The Editors will be glad of further assistance towards the elimination, in future editions, of any similarly unhistorical matter which, despite their vigilance, may have crept into the text. They take this opportunity of acknowledging their inestimable debt to the mass of educated men and women of their race whose historical intuitions and opinions this work enshrines. Also, to the Great British People without whose self-sacrificing determination to become top Nation there would have been no (memorable) history. History is now at an end (see p. 113); this History is therefore final. W. C. S. R. J. Y. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION A first edition limited to 1 copy and printed on rice paper and bound in buck-boards and signed by one of the editors was sold to the other editor, who left it in a taxi somewhere between Piccadilly Circus and the Bodleian. W. C. S. R. J. Y. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Editors acknowledge their comparative indebtedness to the Editors of _The Historical Review_, _Bradshaw_, _The Lancet_, _La Vie Parisienne_, etc., in which none of the following chapters has appeared. Their thanks are also due to their wife, for not preparing the index wrong. There is no index. PRESS OPINIONS “This slim volume....” (_The Bookworm._) “... We look forward keenly to the appearance of their last work.” (_The Review of Reviews of Reviews._) “... vague....” (_Vague._) ERRATA P. 3. _For_ Middletoe _read_ Mistletoe. P. 9. _For_ looked 4th _read_ looked forth.