This edition has been compared with the translation, and numerous passages retouched and improved. Within the last ten years a valuable edition of the original text, with copious collations of MSS., has been published by the English Historical Society. Sharpe has by no means been reprinted verbatim. The result of this plan is, that the public are enabled to purchase without delay and at an insignificant expense, the valuable contemporary historian, who has hitherto been like a sealed book to the public, or only accessible through a bulky volume, the scarcity of which served to exclude it from all but public libraries or the studies of the wealthy.īut the translation of Mr. Sharpe’s work is by no means so smooth as the dialect of the present day would require, yet the care with which he examined MSS., and endeavoured to give the exact sense of his author, seemed so important a recommendation, that the editor of the present volume has gladly availed himself of it as a ground-work for his own labours. John Sharpe, and published in quarto, in 1815. His History of the Kings of England was translated into English by the Rev. ![]() “William of Malmesbury,” according to archbishop Usher, “is the chief of our historians ” Leland records him “as an elegant, learned, and faithful historian ” and Sir Henry Saville is of opinion, that he is the only man of his time who has discharged his trust as an historian. Preface, Addressed To Robert, Earl Of Gloucester Edward King And Martyr The Son Of EdgarĬhap. Of Ethelbald, Ethelbert, And Ethelred, Sons Of EthelwulfĬhap. Of The Arrival Of The Angles, And Of The Kings Of KentĬhap. ![]() ![]() The Author’s Epistle To Robert, Earl Of Gloucester Son Of King HenryĬhap. This online edition was created and published by Global Grey on the 17th February 2023. This translation by John Allen Giles was originally published in 1847. Chronicle of the Kings of England William of Malmesbury
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