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By the Rev. JOHN LINGARD,

Author of " The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church."
This Work contains the History of the Southern Divi-
sion of this Island, front it, first Inv 1164111 by the RC/111311S to
the Accossion of Henry VIII. To render it worthy the

patronage tit the Pithlic, the Aniline hi. Rparva nu pains in
commit ,:ix most ancient ilisteriana, and comparing

their 7i,irriiires with such anitientic lAw nanenl i as sire

exit. H.' has not confined himself in a barren
recoil of inets, but Isla endeavoured to trace the progrt,a of
the teintt barbarism to refinement, end to mark its

gradual improvement iu the arts of Legislation and atrerii.
anent. Ivith this view he has consult.' etl it a dui:. to
treats with nertirttey the manners, hisrs, and polity of our
Aul'lo-Susuu • tcectors; to notice the foreign customs en-

plate.; upon them by the Normstit coniiistrorp; to dew...lupe
Ike elitist • which rendered ihe Soverript tiettelidatit um the

boom, of his vassals, and led to the intrndnoliun of the
Representatives of the People into the great C 4.111,011 of the
!ration; and to desei ilie the most valuable idlprovements,
which in the etninm of each reign were made M the law., the
allosiuistrat inn of justice, and the internal government of
the kinvloin.
It may perhaps he thought a recommendation to this
Work, that it wii, in the first instance, ountiostd without
any reference to Modern Historians. The Author reli-
. . . . .

gainfully confined his researches tu the Uri:Tin:ll, and when,
it Wig possible to Contemporary iVriters. 'Phi. resolution
read( red his tm.k more laburions ; but it tenth:led it also
Blot e I.,,i,ifulory. It preserved him from imbi him; the pre-
jodist copyist:: the mistakes of others ; it left him to
the usibinssed exercise of his own juhment ; and it has en-

;!Ic4llii tit to place in a new, and hr trusts a more interest-
ing light, some of the most important occurrences in our

History.
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