Hereward; the Saxon patriot: a history of his life and character; with a record of his ancestors and descendants, AD445 to AD1896 . es, supplemented by perverted history, it is hardindeed to produce a breathing picture, or harmonious the absence of reliable information, to clothe an imperfect 1 Ethelbald, Ethelbert, Ethelred I., Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder,Edvvy, Edgar, Edward the Martyr, Ethelred II., Edmund Ironside, Edwardthe Confessor. Hereivards Ancestors. 15 skeleton of fact with a living form of truth is a difficultmatter, without trenching upon the region of romance an
Hereward; the Saxon patriot: a history of his life and character; with a record of his ancestors and descendants, AD445 to AD1896 . es, supplemented by perverted history, it is hardindeed to produce a breathing picture, or harmonious the absence of reliable information, to clothe an imperfect 1 Ethelbald, Ethelbert, Ethelred I., Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder,Edvvy, Edgar, Edward the Martyr, Ethelred II., Edmund Ironside, Edwardthe Confessor. Hereivards Ancestors. 15 skeleton of fact with a living form of truth is a difficultmatter, without trenching upon the region of romance andimagination to an extent irreconcilable with the object of thissketch. It would have been so much pleasanter to elaboratethe story with pages of bright fiction. But the flowery meadsof word-painting and the warm light of colour must yieldto beaten paths and staid monotone. We have to plod on with dry matter of fact, and to workover disputed ground almost every inch of the way ; but inour dreary pilgrimage to long forgotten shrines we shall recallincidents worthy of a place in the fmest romances of Englishchivalry or Chapter iij. Hereward: His Early History^ Banishmentand Marriage. Of his stature he was of even lengthe,And wonderly deliver and grete of strengthe:And he had be sometime in Chevachie,In Flandres, in Artois, and in Picardie,And borne him well, as of so litel space,In hope to stonden in hys ladies grace. Chaucer—Canterbury Talcs. Right faithful, true he was in deeds and word ;But of his cheere did seem too solemn nothing did he dread but ever was ydrad. Spenser—Faerie Queen, Bk. i., canto i., st. 2. IVIDING the personal narrative of Herewardinto three tableaux, we at once enter uponparticulars of his birth and parentage ; andhere on the very threshold of his history wefind conflicting authorities. One writer de-clares that * Herewardus vir strenuissimus,used by Florence of Worcester, is our wholeauthentic description of him. The fact is, that f
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