E-text prepared by Paul Murray and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 17037-h.htm or 17037-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/0/3/17037/17037-h/17037-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/0/3/17037/17037-h.zip) Readers who are unable to use the fully illustrated html version of this text may wish to view the individual images, located within the "images" directory of the html file (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/0/3/17037/17037-h/images). The image file names have been included with each illustration caption in this text. The index for the entire 8 volume set of _History of the English People_ was located at the end of Volume VIII. For ease in accessibility, it has been removed and produced as a separate volume (https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25533). HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, VOLUME I by JOHN RICHARD GREEN, M.A. Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford EARLY ENGLAND, 449-1071 FOREIGN KINGS, 1071-1204 THE CHARTER, 1204-1216 _First Edition, Demy 8vo, November_ 1877; _Reprinted December_ 1877, 1881, 1885, 1890. _Eversley Edition,_ 1895. London MacMillan and Co. and New York 1895 I Dedicate this Book TO TWO DEAR FRIENDS MY MASTERS IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH HISTORY EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN AND WILLIAM STUBBS CONTENTS Volume I Book I--Early England--449-1071 Authorities for Book I Chapter I--The English Conquest of Britain--449-577 Chapter II--The English Kingdoms--577-796 Chapter III--Wessex and the Northmen--796-947 Chapter IV--Feudalism and the Monarchy--954-1071 Book II--England under Foreign Kings--1071-1204 Authorities for Book II Chapter I--The Conqueror--1071-1085 Chapter II--The Norman Kings--1085-1154 Chapter III--Henry the Second--1154-1189 Chapter IV--The Angevin Kings--1189-1204 Book III--The Charter--1204-1307 Authorities for Book III Chapter I--John--1204-1216 LIST OF MAPS Britain and the English Conquest (v1-map-1.png) The English Kingdoms in A.D. 600 (v1-map-2.jpg) England and the Danelaw (v1-map-3.jpg) The Dominions of the Angevins (v1-map-4.jpg) Ireland just before the English Invasion (v1-map-5.jpg) VOLUME I BOOK I EARLY ENGLAND 449-1071 AUTHORITIES FOR BOOK I 449-1071