Thomas Sprott's Chronicle of Profane and Sacred History: Translated From the Original Manuscript (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Thomas Sprott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267829825 ISBN 13: 9780267829828

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Thomas Sprott's Chronicle of Profane and Sacred History: Translated From the Original Manuscript

The Dano - Norman annals, it will be perceived, are much more circumstantial and minute, and facts and anecdotes are related more in detail of the Norman Dukes before their accession to the English throne than in the more immediate History of England proper. This circumstance is the more to be lamented, as, if such close colouring had been adopted for our own annals by a cotemporary, we might perhaps have met with some important fact or exploit, unknown through other chroniclers for it is in the nature of relations by eyewitnesses, that, though agreeing in the main, each will seize upon different circumstances as explanatory or convincing, which might have settled some questio vexata in the history of our national constitution.

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