Produced by Marius Masi, Don Kretz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's notes: (1) Characters following a carat (^) were printed in superscript. (2) Side-notes were relocated to function as titles of their respective paragraphs. (3) Macrons and breves above letters and dots below letters were not inserted. (4) The following typographical errors have been corrected: ARTICLE ENGLISH HISTORY: "Though he disguised himself, he was detected by his old enemy and imprisoned." 'himself' amended from 'himelf'. ARTICLE ENGLISH HISTORY: "Having so done they dispersed, not guessing that Lancaster had yielded so easily because he was set on undoing their work the moment that they were gone." 'Lancaster' amended from 'Lancester'. ARTICLE ENGLISH HISTORY: "... but purely and solely to attaint his brother, the duke of Clarence, whom he had resolved to destroy." 'the duke' was missing. ARTICLE ENGLISH HISTORY: "... so as to appeal to the constituencies, which did not always share in the passions of their representatives." 'the' appeared twice. ARTICLE ENGLISH HISTORY: "The arrogant spirit of Englishmen made them contemptuous towards the colonists, and the desire to thrust taxation upon others than themselves made the new colonial legislation popular." 'contemptuous' amended from 'comtemptuous'. ARTICLE ENGLISH HISTORY: "... and was surprised by the Zulus while reconnoitering, created a deep and unfortunate impression." 'reconnoitering' amended from 'reconnoitring'. ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INFORMATION ELEVENTH EDITION VOLUME IX, SLICE V English History ARTICLES IN THIS SLICE: ENGLISH HISTORY ENGLISH HISTORY.--The general account of English history which follows should be supplemented for the earlier period by the article BRITAIN. See also SCOTLAND, IRELAND, WALES. I. FROM THE LANDING OF AUGUSTINE TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST (600-1066)