The Author has not scrupled to avail himself of the works of modern authors, though, in most cases, he has verified their views by reference to original authorities. In the earlier period the works of Professor STUBBS, Mr. FREEMAN, and Dr. PAULI; in the Tudor and Stuart period those of FROUDE, RANKE, and MACAULAY; in the later period the histories of Miss MARTINEAU and Lord STANHOPE have been of the greatest assistance. Greater stress has been laid upon the later than the earlier periods, as is indeed obvious from the divisions of the work. With regard to the starting-point chosen, it may be well to explain that the English invasion was fixed upon, because it so thoroughly obliterated all remnants of the Roman rule, that they have exerted little or no influence upon the development of the nation--the real point of interest in a national history. It is hoped that the genealogies of the great families will assist in the comprehension of mediæval times in the history of which they played so large a part, and that the maps supplied will suffice to enable the reader to follow pretty accurately, without reference to another atlas, the military and political events mentioned. A brief and rapid summary for the use of beginners was originally projected to preface the work, but the brevity required by a book of this description rendered such an addition impossible without injury to the more important part. An attempt has been made to replace it by a very full analysis, which, in the hands of a careful teacher, has been proved by experience a useful method of teaching the main facts of history. OXFORD, 1875. A LIST OF SOME USEFUL AUTHORITIES. BEFORE THE CONQUEST. GENERAL HISTORIES. Lappenberg’s _England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings_. Lingard’s _History of England_. Sharon Turner’s _History of the Anglo-Saxons_. Freeman and Palgrave have each published short books for the young on the period. CONSTITUTIONAL. All that is necessary to be known is to be found in Stubbs’ _Constitutional History_. Treated more at length in Kemble’s _Saxons in England_, and Sir F. Palgrave’s _History of the English Commonwealth_. An excellent sketch in Freeman’s _Norman Conquest_. All the ancient laws are collected in Thorpe’s _Ancient Laws_; sufficient extracts to be found in Stubbs’ _Illustrative Documents_. The whole history, including literature and society, is given in Green’s _History of the English People_ in a brief and very interesting form. GENERAL AUTHORITIES. Bæda’s _Ecclesiastical History_, for a century and a half after the landing of Augustin. _The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, which becomes very important after the time of Alfred. Milman’s _Latin Christianity_. THE ENGLISH CONQUEST. Gildas, and the earlier part of the _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH. Kemble’s _Saxons_. Stubbs’ _Constitutional History_. ALFRED. Asser’s _Life_. Dr. Pauli’s _Life_. DUNSTAN.