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Title: Lingard's History of England, newly abridged and brought down to the accession of King George v
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Lingard, John, 1771-1851 Birt, Henry Norbert, 1861-1919
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Publisher: London, G. Bell & sons, ltd.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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trine between the tenets of the Christian bishops and thereligion taught by Augustine. Ethelbert pubhshed during his long and useful life manyimportant laws, in order to regulate the administration of justice.A pecuniary fine was appointed to each crime, and a criminalwas compelled to make compensation to the viofated justice ofthe country, as well as to the family of the injured party. Thefine called were was the sum at which the life of each person wasrated; that which was known as mimd was intended to protectindividuals from insult, by providing for the security of each,according to rank. In addition to the history of the monarchs denominated Bretwalda, the Anglo-Saxon annals are taken up with numerous c i8 THE ANGLO-SAXONS 449- details respecting those kings who did not obtain that distinctiveappellation. The sovereigns of Northumbria, Mercia, and Wessexoccupy the leading position. There is not much in this portionof English history to interest the student, presenting, as it does,
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()r?iiL:^LS:7i..L -^l^nJan little more than one continued scene of perfidy, treason, andmurder. Amidst this social chaos, it is pleasing to discover twodistinguished scholars, Bede and Alcuin, whose literary superiority 901 ETHELWULF 19 was acknowledged by their contemporaries, and to whosewritings and exertions Europe was principally indebted for thatportion of learning which she possessed from theeighth to the eleventh century. Bede was a native of ^f^uin Sunderland, and was educated by the monks of Jarrow,on the banks of the Tyne. He studied every science whichsurvived the ruin of the Roman empire, and has astonished everyreader of his works with the depth and variety of his attainments.His principal production was the Ecclesiastical History of theNation of the Angles. Bede died at Jarrow, in the year 733.Alcuin was a native of York; his literary reputation attractedstudents to him from Gaul and Germany, and subsequently led tohis being invited to the court of Charlemagne, where he

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