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THESAURUS NOVUS ANECDOTORUM: Complectens Regum ac Principum, aliorumque Virorum illustrium Epistolas et Diplomata bene multa. Prodiit nunc primum studio et opera Domni Edmundi Martene et Domni Ursini Durand... 1717.

Contains much interesting material. For catalogue, see No. VIII, also No. LXIX.

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TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS

(4) RYMER'S FEDERA: Fadera, Conventiones, literæ, et cujuscumque generis Acta Publica, inter Reges Angliæ et alios quosvis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes, vel communitates . . ., ed. T. Rymer (14 vols.), R. Sanderson (last 6 vols.). London, 1704-35. Several other editions. The best is that edited by A. Clarke and others for Record Commission. The Series is indexed and commented upon in Syllabus of Documents in Rymer's Fadera, ed. T. D. Hardy. No. XXXI. 1869-85.

Rymer's Fodera commences with 1101 and concludes with 1654. It is invaluable in its chosen field, which, as stated in the instructions to Thomas Rymer, the historiographer royal, was the transcription and publication of all leagues, treaties, alliances, capitulations, and confederacies which had at any time been made between the crown of England and other kingdoms. The last volume of Fœdera is not full, and the work must be supplemented by No. LXVIII, B.

(B) DUMONT'S: Corps Universel Diplomatique du Droit des Gens: Contenant un Recueil des Traitez d'Alliance, de Paix, de Trève, de Neutralité, de Commerce, d'Echange, etc., etc., depuis le Règne de l'Empereur Charlemagne jusques à présent, par J. Dumont. Continued by Barbeyrac and Rousset. Amsterdam, 1739.

This work continues the record of treaties from 315 to 1730. Then consult No. LXVIII, C. See also Histoire des Traités de Paix et autres negotiations du dix-septième siècle, depuis la paix de Veruins jusqu'à la paix de Nimigue, Amsterdam, 1725. Also Négotiations Secrètes, The Hague, 1725-1726.

(C) WENCK'S: Corpus Juris Gentium Recentissimi e tabulariorum exemplorumque fide dignorum monumentis

compositus... Fred. Aug. Gid. Wenkii... Tomus Primus continens diplomata inde ab anno MDCCXXXV usque ad annum MDCCXLII. Lipsa, MDCCLXXXI. [II, 1743 to 1753. III, 1753 to 1772.]

The student will next consult No. LXVIII, D.

(D) MARTEN'S RECUEIL and continuations: Recueil de Traités d'Alliance, de Paix, de Trève, de Neutralité, de Commerce, de Limites, d'Echange, etc., et plusieurs autres actes servant à la connaissance des relations étrangères des Puissances et états de l'Europe tant dans leur rapport mutuel que dans celui envers les Puissances et états dans d'autres parties du Globe depuis 1761 jusqu'à présent [1708], par Geo. Fréd. de Martens. Seconde édition, revue et augmentée. Göttingen, 1817.

(E) Nouveau Recueil... depuis 1808 jusqu'à présent [1874] ... Martens [to 1817 continuations by Murhard, Samwer and Hopfe.

(F) Nouveau Suppléments au Recueil de Traités, by Murhard [covers 1761-1839].

(G) Nouveau Recueil Général. . . Continuation du Grand Recueil [that of Martens et al.] ... Deuxième Série [by Samwer, Hopfe and Stoerk]. Göttingen and Leipzig, 1876 et seq. Covers period from 1853 to date and still in progress.

Full indexes and extensive supplements accompany these volumes (D) to (G) inclusive.

(H) HERTSLET'S COMMERCIAL TREATIES: A Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions and Reciprocal Regulations at present subsisting between Great Britain and Foreign Powers and of the Laws, Decrees and Orders in Council concerning the same; as far as they relate to Commerce and Navigation, to the Repression and Abolition of the Slave Trade and to the Privileges and Interests of the subjects, of the high contracting parties. Compiled from authentic documents by Lewis Hertslet, Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, foreign office. London, 1840-1885.

This important series has a full double index, arranged by subjects and by dates. Various other series of treaties have been published; see note in Encyclopedia Britannica. 9th edition. At present, all treaties, not secret, are published in the London Gazette and in Parliamentary reports.

LXIX

VETERUM SCRIPTORUM et Monumentorum, Historicorum, Dogmaticorum, Moralium, Amplissima Collectio. Complectens Regum et Principum aliorumque virorum illustrium Epistolas et Diplomata bene multa. Prodiit nunc primum studeo et opera Domni Edmundi Martene, et Domni Ursini Durand, presbyterorum et monachorum Benedictinorum e Congregratione S. Mauri. Paris, 1724.

LXX

Contains a mass of material. See No. LXVII. For contents, see No. VIII.

WELSH MANUSCRIPTS.

The four principal societies for the publication of Welsh manuscripts are:

(a) Cambrian Archæological Association, inst. 1846. (b) Cambrian Institute, inst. 1853.

(c) Cymmrodorion or Metropolitan Cambrian Institute, 1751, revived 1820.

(d) Welsh Manuscripts' Society, inst. 1837.

During the activity of these societies they published many valuable works. See No. VIII and No. X. For publications, see note to No. XV.

LXXI

Year Books: Les reports des cases argué et adjudgé... London, 1678-80.

The scope of this series extends from Edw. II. to Hen. VIII. For year books antedating Edw. II., see No. XXXI. In this series also appear various Year Books of Edw. III.

In addition to the series and collections given, the student is referred to the additional series and to the publications of private presses, catalogued in Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual (No. X), Hardy's Descriptive Catalogue (No. VIII), Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica (No. IX), The English Catalogue (No. XI), and the Official Year Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. London, ann. since 1884.

CHAPTER II

SOURCES ARRANGED BY EPOCHS

In the sections which follow an attempt has been måde to group the most important and most accessible sources by epochs. The great collections given in section 2 and 3 are, with few exceptions, to be found at the university centres of the United States. The sources under sections 4 to 9 inclusive are, in most cases, even more readily available. While no attempt has been, or could have been, made to render source material complete for any epoch, yet the student will find ample working bibliographies, and by consulting the volumes mentioned in sections 1 and 2, the lists given can be made exhaustive.

SECTION 4. THE PRE-NORMAN PERIOD

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MATERIALS FOR THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN: Monumenta Historica Britannica, ed. H. Petrie and J. Sharpe. London, 1848. Only one volume published.

Indispensable for reprints of references to Britain in early Greek and Latin writers. Greek excerpts are translated. Contains copies of ancient inscriptions referring to Britain. Also ancient British and Roman coins, facsimiles of MSS. maps. Also texts of Gildas, Nennius, Bede, Short Chronicle of Northumberland, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Asser, Chronicle of Eathelward, Florence of Worcester, Simeon of Durham, Ecclesiastical Register, Henry of Huntingdon, Cambrian Annals, Geoffrey Gaimer, Chronicle of the Prince of Wales, Song of the Battle of Hastings. Full indices.

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CESAR, Commentaries on the Gallic War: Commentarii de bello Gallico. Many editions of both original text and its translation.

Cæsar's invasions of Britain, description of island and its inhabitants, accounts of the early Germans. For the latter subject, see also Tacitus, Germania.

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TACITUS, Life of Agricola: Agricola vita. As of Cæsar, many editions of this work and its translation are accessible.

Activities of Agricola, Roman occupation of Britain, descriptions of island and its inhabitants, supplements Cæsar.

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GILDAS: De Excidio Britannia. Text in Nos. LXXII, LIV, LXIX, XXXVIII, 1838, etc. Translations. Most accessible in Six Old English Chronicles. Bohn Library.

Two parts: 1st 55 B.C. to circa 383; 2nd to middle of sixth century. The work of Gildas forms "the basis of carly English History."

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BEDE, Ecclesiastical History of the English People: Historica Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. Of the texts, a number of editions are accessible; I prefer edition in No. LXXII and in No. XXXVII. Of the several translations that by T. Miller in No. XXXVII is useful.

Covers period from 55 B.C. to middle of eighth century. For this period the book is indispensable.

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THE ITINERARY OF ANTONIUS: Itinerarium Antonini Augusti et Hicroslymitanum, ed. G. Parthey and M. Pinder. Berlin, 1848.

Enumerates the towns and stations of Roman Britain with intervening distances.

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THE OFFICIAL LIST OF THE EMPIRE: Notitia Dignitatum et Administrationum omnium tam Civilium quam Militarium in Partibus Orientis et Occidentis. Several edit. of texts; see that of O. Seeck. Berlin, 1876.

Organization of Britain under Roman government.