Contents

I
The Settlement of the South-Saxons and East-Saxons 1
II
Ingelric the Priest and Albert of Lotharingia 28
III
Anglo-Norman Warfare 39
IV
The Origin of the Exchequer 62
V
London under Stephen 97
VI
The Inquest of Sheriffs (1170) 125
VII
The Conquest of Ireland 137
VIII
The Pope and the Conquest of Ireland 171
IX
The Coronation of Richard I 201
X
The Struggle of John and Longchamp (1191) 207
XI
The Commune of London 219
XII
The Great Inquest of Service (1212) 261
XIII
Castle-ward and Cornage 278
XIV
Bannockburn 289
XV
The Marshalship of England 302