The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. - From the Britons of Early Times to King John

David Hume

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Title: The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A.  From the Britons of Early Times to King John

Author: David Hume

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Language: English

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THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND

Volume One of Three

FROM THE INVASION OF JULIUS CÆSAR

TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF JAMES THE SECOND,

BY DAVID HUME, ESQ.

1688

London: James S. Virtue, City Road and Ivy Lane New York: 26 John Street 1860

And

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. March 17, 1901

In Three Volumes:

VOLUME ONE: The History Of England From The Invasion Of Julius Cæsar To The End Of The Reign Of James The Second............ By David Hume, Esq.

VOLUME TWO: Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II........................................... by Tobias Smollett.

VOLUME THREE: From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty-Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria............... by E. Farr and E.H. Nolan.

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VOLUME ONE

Part A.

From Early Times to King John

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

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CHAPTER VIII.

HENRY II.

CHAPTER IX.

HENRY II.

CHAPTER VI.

HENRY I.

CHAPTER VII.

STEPHEN.

WILLIAM RUFUS.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER X.

RICHARD I.

CHAPTER XI.

EGBERT.

ETHELWOLF.

HAROLD HAREFOOT

THE KINGDOM OF KENT

EDWARD THE CONFESSOR

JOHN.

THE KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBERLAND

THE KINGDOM OF MERCIA

THE BRITONS.

ETHELBALD AND ETHELBERT.

THE KINGDOM OF ESSEX.

THE BRITONS.

THE HEPTARCHY

THE ROMANS.

CHAPTER I.

THE SAXONS.

THE KINGDOM OF EAST ANGLIA

THE KINGDOM OF SUSSEX.

THE KINGDOM OF WESSEX.

Contents

THE LIFE OF DAVID HUME, ESQ.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

EDMOND IRONSIDE

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

EDWARD THE MARTYR

CHAPTER II.

ETHERED

ALFRED.

EDRED

EDMUND.

ATHELSTAN.

EDWARD THE ELDER.

CHAPTER III.

EDGAR

EDWY

CANUTE

ETHELRED

APPENDIX I.

HAROLD

HARDICANUTE

APPENDIX II.

THE FEUDAL AND ANGLO-NORMAN GOVERNMENT AND MANNERS.

NOTES.

List of Illustrations

Frontispiece: Portrait of Hume.

Titlepage: Boadicea Haranguing the Britons

Alfred Before the Danish General

William II.

Henry I.

Stephen

Henry II.

Richard I.

John

THE LIFE OF DAVID HUME, ESQ.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

MY OWN LIFE.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; but this narrative shall contain little more than the history of my writings; as, indeed, almost all my life has been spent in literary pursuits and occupations. The first success of most of my writings was not such as to be an object of vanity.

I was born the twenty-sixth of April, 1711, old style, at Edinburgh. I was of a good family, both by father and mother: my father's family is a branch of the earl of Home's, or Hume's; and my ancestors had been proprietors of the estate which my brother possesses, for several generations. My mother was daughter of Sir David Falconer, president of the college of justice; the title of Lord Halkerton came by succession to her brother.

My family, however, was not rich; and being myself a younger brother, my patrimony, according to the mode of my country, was of course very slender. My father, who passed for a man of parts, died when I was an infant, leaving me, with an elder brother and a sister, under the care of our mother, a woman of singular merit, who, though young and handsome, devoted herself entirely to the rearing and educating of her children. I passed through the ordinary course of education with success, and was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments. My studious disposition, my sobriety, and my industry, gave my family a notion that the law was a proper profession for me; but I found an insurmountable