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CONTENTS¹

Introduction

Book I.

OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT, FROM THE SETTLEMENT OF THE SAXONS IN BRITAIN TO THE REIGN OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

CHAP. I. Preliminary Account of the State of Britain under the Dominion of the Romans.

CHAP. II. Character and Manners of the Saxons.

CHAP. III. Settlement of the Saxons in Britain.

CHAP. IV. Similarity in the Situation of the Anglo-Saxons, and of the other Barbarians who settled in the Provinces of the Western Empire. How far the State of all those Nations differed from that of every other People, ancient or modern.

CHAP. V. The State of Property, and the different Ranks and Orders of Men, produced by the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain.

SECT. 1. Of the chief Regulations attending the Establishment of Christianity in the Roman Empire, and in the modern Kingdoms of Europe. <xii>

SECT. 2. The Establishment of Christianity in Britain, under the Roman Dominion, and in the early Government of the Anglo-Saxons.

CHAP. VI. Institution of Tythings, Hundreds, and Counties.

CHAP. VII. Of the Wittenagemote.

CHAP. VIII. State of the Sovereign in the primitive Anglo-Saxon Government.

CHAP. IX. Of the principal Events from the Reign of Egbert to the Norman Conquest.

CHAP. X. Variations in the State of Tythings, Hundreds, and Shires.

CHAP. XI. Changes produced in the Condition of the Vassals, and of the Peasants.

CHAP. XII. The Influence of these Changes upon the Jurisdiction and Authority of the feudal Lords.

CHAP. XIII. Of Ecclesiastical Courts.

CHAP. XIV. Alterations in the State of the Wittenagemote.

Conclusion of the Saxon Period. <1>