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211.—Windows from the Palace of Westminster The windows are supposed here to be of Saxon origin; that is, dating between A.D. 440 and A.D. 1100 or so. [more...] |
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230.—Hawking. From Cotton MS. “All ranks of the Anglo-Saxons delighted in the chace. The young nobles were trained to hunting after their school-days of Latin, as we are told in Asser’s ‘Life of Alfred.’ [more...] |
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234.—Silver Penny of Offa, King of Mercia. The silver coins of the princes of the Heptarchy are for the most part pennies. There is an extensive series of such coins of the kings of Mercia. The halfpenny and the farthing are the ancient names of the division of the penny; they are [...] |
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235.—Silver Penny of Regnald, King of Northumbria King Regnald ruled the kingdon of Northumbria from A.D. 919-921; the index entry has it as King Reynold. |
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283.—Royal Costume, and the Harness and Equip-ment of Horses. (Cotton M.S.) The Three Kings, the figures of legend that are derived from the story of the wise men, astronomers or astrologers who visited the infant Jesus. The Gospels do not say how many of them there were, but names three of them, and tradition says that there were exactly three. Some traditions make two of them white and one black, although since Jesus was [...] [more...] |
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284.—The Harp, Accompanied by Other Instruments (cotton MS.). [The Anglo-Saxons] put their own harp into the hands of the Royal Psalmist (Fig. 284) [more...] |
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345.—Castle of Lillebonne General view of Ruins, Church, etc. [more...] |
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389.—Ruins of reading Abbey in 1721. Reading Abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I; it became very wealthy, no doubt in part because of the corruption that was endemic to the Roman Catholic Church. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 the Abbot refused to accept the authority of the King, and was executed; the property thus passed to the Crown and was used as a royal [...] [more...] |
