The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12)
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Chapter 1 CAUSES OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ROMANS AND BRITONS.-CAESAR'S TWO INVASIONS OF BRITAIN.
Chapter 2 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF BRITAIN.
Chapter 3 THE REDUCTION OF BRITAIN BY THE ROMANS.
Chapter 4 THE ENTRY AND SETTLEMENT OF THE SAXONS, AND THEIR CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY.
Chapter 5 ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY-OF MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS-AND OF THEIR EFFECTS.
Chapter 6 SERIES OF ANGLO-SAXON KINGS FROM ETHELBERT TO ALFRED WITH THE INVASION OF THE DANES.
Chapter 7 REIGN OF KING ALFRED.
Chapter 8 SUCCESSION OF KINGS FROM ALFRED TO HAROLD.
Chapter 9 HAROLD II.-INVASION OF THE NORMANS.-ACCOUNT OF THAT PEOPLE, AND OF THE STATE OF ENGLAND AT THE TIME OF THE INVASION.
Chapter 10 VIEW OF THE STATE OF EUROPE AT THE TIME OF THE NORMAN INVASION.
Chapter 11 REIGN OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.
Chapter 12 REIGN OF WILLIAM THE SECOND, SURNAMED RUFUS.
Chapter 13 REIGN OF HENRY I.
Chapter 14 REIGN OF STEPHEN.
Chapter 15 REIGN OF HENRY II.
Chapter 16 REIGN OF RICHARD I.
Chapter 17 REIGN OF JOHN.
Chapter 18 FRAGMENT.-AN ESSAY TOWARDS AN HISTORY OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND.
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Chapter 14 REIGN OF STEPHEN.

A.D. 1135.Although the authority of the crown had been exercised with very little restraint during the three preceding reigns, the succession to it, or even the principles of the succession, were but ill ascertained: so that a doubt might justly have arisen, whether the crown was not in a great measure elective. This uncertainty exposed the nation,

             
            

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