of acknowledging my indebtedness to the ingenuity and intelligence displayed by them in the discovery of certain illustrative documents. I have been constantly aided in the work of selection, translation, and editing by Dr. Helen Gertrude Preston of the Girls' High School of Philadelphia. Professor James Harvey Robinson, the editor of the series of which this volume is a part, through our long labors together over manuscript and proof, has often contributed the last and best word of suggestion, advice, or decision. EDWARD P. CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CONTENTS I. Accounts by Ancient Geographical Observers 1. Cæsar's description of Britain. De Bello Gallico, Lib. v, c. 13. 2. Description by Diodorus Siculus Library of Histories, Lib. v, cc. 21, 22; trans. in Monumenta I. The First Contact of the Romans with the Britons 7. Cæsar's description of his first invasion De Bello Gallico, Lib. iv, cc. 20-27. Dion Cassius, Lib. lx, cc. 19-23; Monumenta Historica 15. Outline of the early campaigns TACITUS, Agricola, cc. 13, 14. 16. The conquest of Anglesea and the revolt of Boadicea II. The Organization and Defense of the Province 18. The building of the wall, A.D. 120 ELIUS SPARTIANUS, Vita Hadriani, cc. 11, 12, 16; Monu- Notitia Dignitatum,Vol. II, pp. 53, 74, 80, 114; ed. by Eduard GILDAS, De Excidio Britanniae, Sects. 14-24, in Six Old 26. Bede's account of the settlement Ecclesiastical History of England, Lib. i, c. xv; ed. and trans. 27. Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Trans. by J. A. Giles, pp. 309–312. TACITUS, Germania, cc. 4-16, in Translations and Reprints, 41 BEOWULF, Sect. 9, lines 1226-1267; adapted from Benjamin COOK and TINKER, Specimens of Old English Poetry, p. 167; Ibid. Lib. ii, c. 13; Lib. iii, c. 3; GILES, pp. 94-96, 98, 111-112. 34. The conversion of East Anglia 35. Description of Cadmon Ibid. Lib. iv, c. 24, in Cook and TINKER, Translations from COOK and TINKER, Translations from Old English Poetry, 39. Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 787-882 BEDE, Ecclesiastical History and the Anglo-Saxon Chron- THORPE, Diplomatarium Anglicanum, pp. 336 sqq. 45. Ordinance of King Edgar for the meeting of the hun- dred, borough, and shire courts, about A.D. 975. 48. Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 991-1031 83 |