rd. See
"Les plus anciens monuments de la langue francaise," by Gaston Paris,
Societe des anciens Textes, 1875, fol.

[100] Thorpe, "Ancient Laws and Institutes of England," London, 1840, 1
vol. fol.; laws of Ina, king of Wessex, 688-726, of Alfred, AEthelstan,
&c. We have also considerable quantities of deeds and charters, some in
Latin and some in Anglo-Saxon. See J. M. Kemble, "Codex Diplomaticus AEvi
Saxonici," English Historical Society, 1839-40, 6 vols. 8vo; De Gray
Birch, "Cartularium Saxonicum, or a Collection of Charters relating to
Anglo-Saxon History," London, 1885 ff. 4to; Earle, "A Handbook to the
Land Charters, and other Saxonic Documents," Oxford, 1888, 8vo.

[101] Translations of scientific treatises such as the "De Natura Rerum"
of Bede, made in the tenth century (Wright's "Popular Treatises on
Science," 1841, 8vo); various treatises published by Cockayne,
"Leechdoms, Wortcunnings and Starcraft ... being a Collection of
Documents ... illustrating the History of Science ... before the Norman
Conquest," 1864, 3 vols. 8vo (Rolls).--Translation of the so-called
"Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem" (Cockayne, "Narratiunculae," 1861,
8vo, and "Anglia," vol. iv. p. 139); of the history of "Apollonius of
Tyre" (Thorpe, London, 1834, 12mo).--Translations by King Alfred and his
bishops, see below pp. 81 ff. The monuments of Anglo-Saxon prose have
been collected by Grein, "Bibliothek der Angelsaechsischen Prosa," ed.
Wuelker, Cassel, 1872 ff.

[102] Grueber and Keary, "A Catalogue of English Coins in the British
Museum," Anglo-Saxon series, vol. ii. 1893, 8vo, p. lxxxi.

[103] According to evidence derived from place-names, the Danish
invaders have left their strongest mark in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire,
and after that in "Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottingham, and East
Anglia." Keary, "Vikings in Western Christendom," 1891, p. 353.

[104] Peace of Wedmore, sworn by Alfred and Guthrum the Dane, 878. The
text of the agreement has been preserved and figures among the laws of
Alfred.

[105] H. Sweet, "King Alfred's West-Saxon version of Gregory's Pastoral
Care, with an English translation," London, Early English Text Society,
1871-72, 8vo, pp. 2 ff. Plegmund was an Anglo-Saxon, Asser a Welshman,
Grimbold a Frank, John a Saxon from continental Saxony.

[106] Preface of Gregory's "Pastoral Care."

[107] King Alfred's "Orosius," ed. H. Sweet, Early English Text Society,
1883, 8vo. Orosius was a Spaniard, who wrote