Excerpt from The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Its Causes and Its Results, Vol. 1: The Preliminary History to the Election of Eadward the Confessor

The present of a work which I have contemplated, and for which I have at various times collected materials, for the last twenty years. I had hoped to complete the work, or so much of it as would come down to the actual accession of William the Conqueror, in time for it to appear during the year 1866, the octocen tenary year of the Conquest. I found however that.

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