A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the RenaissanceJusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)
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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance
Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)
English literature -- History and criticism
[139] So says William of Poictiers, and Orderic Vital after him: "...
Nudato insuper capite, detractaque galea exclamans: me inquit
conspicite; vivo et vincam, opitulante Deo." "Orderici Vitalis Angligenae
... Historiae Ecclesiasticae, Libri XIII.," in Migne's "Patrologia," vol.
clxxxviii. col. 297.
[140] The inventory is carried down to details; answers are required to
a number of questions: "... Deinde quomodo vocatur mansio, quis tenuit
eam tempore Regis Eadwardi; quis modo tenet; quot hidae; quot carrucae in
dominio; quot hominum; quot villani; quot cotarii; quot servi; quot
liberi homines; quot sochemani; quantum silvae; quantum prati; quot
pascuorum; quot molendina; quot piscinae," &c., &c. "Domesday for Ely";
Stubbs, "Select Charters," Oxford, 1876, p. 86. The Domesday has been
published in facsimile by the Record Commission: "Domesday Book, or the
great survey of England, of William the Conqueror, 1086," edited by Sir
Henry James, London and Southampton, 1861-3, 2 vols. 4to.
[141] Peterborough text of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," year 1086.
[142] To the extent that England resembled then Jerusalem besieged by
Titus: "Quid multa? In diebus eis multiplicata sunt mala in terra, ut si
quis ea summatim recenseat, historiam Josephi possint excedere." John of
Salisbury, "Policraticus," book vi chap. xviii.
[143] "Videas ubique in villis ecclesias, in vicis et urbibus
monasteria, novo aedificandi genere consurgere." The buildings of the
Anglo-Saxons, according to the testimony of the same, who may have seen
many as his lived in the twelfth century, were very poor; they were
pleased with "pravis et abjectis domibus." "Gesta Regum Anglorum," ed.
Hardy, 1840, book iii. p. 418.
[144] William of Malmesbury, _ut supra_, p. 420.
[145] The Conqueror was buried at Caen; Henry II. and Richard
Coeur-de-Lion at Fontevrault in Anjou. Henry III. was buried at
Westminster, but his heart was sent to Fontevrault, and the chapter of
Westminster still possesses the deed drawn at the moment when it was
placed in the hands of the Angevin abbess, 20 Ed. I. (exhibited in the
chapter house).
[146] "Henry II.," by Mrs. J. R. Green, 1888, p. 22 ("Twelve English
Statesmen").
[147] Stubbs, "Seventeen Lectures," 1886, p. 131.
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