Vestigia Anglic or Illustrations of the Most Interesting and Debatable Points in the History and Antiquities of England, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from Vestigia Anglic or Illustrations of the Most Interesting and Debatable Points in the History and Antiquities of England, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Earliest Ages to the Accession of the House of Tudor The extreme popularity of Mr. Hume's acute and delightful volumes, having almost superseded the perusal of other histories of England, has caused a very general unacquaintedness with those topics connected with our early annals, which that author, either from haste or negligence, has carelessly passed over. It was somewhat in the spirit of supplying these deficiencies that the present work originated. The formality of the orthodox rules of history has been considered by the irreverent spirit of the age as making a near approach to dulness, and consequently nothing is more frequently complained of, than the difficulty of remembering events, and the ennui with which the perusal of the remote period of English, as well as of other, history is apt to be accompanied: whatever noise the sieges, the battles, and the treaties occasioned in their day, nothing has a more extraordinary tendency to produce repose and quiet now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.