The Bayeux tapestry elucidated . THE BAYETJX TAPESTEY ELUCIDATED. BY EEV. JOHN COLLINGWOOD BEUCE, , , CORRESPONDING MEMEliK 01 THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUAKIES OF SCOTLAND, OF THE IMPEEIAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUAKIES OF FRANCE, AND OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NOEMANDY ; ONE OF THE COUNCIl OP THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE; AN HONOKAEY MEMBER OF THE SURREY AEOH^OLOOICAL SOCIETY ; AND ONE OP THE COMMITTEE OF THE LITEEAEY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OP NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. They burning both with fervent fireTheir countreys auncestry to nuderstond. Spenser. LONDON:JOHN EUSSEL
The Bayeux tapestry elucidated . THE BAYETJX TAPESTEY ELUCIDATED. BY EEV. JOHN COLLINGWOOD BEUCE, , , CORRESPONDING MEMEliK 01 THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUAKIES OF SCOTLAND, OF THE IMPEEIAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUAKIES OF FRANCE, AND OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NOEMANDY ; ONE OF THE COUNCIl OP THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE; AN HONOKAEY MEMBER OF THE SURREY AEOH^OLOOICAL SOCIETY ; AND ONE OP THE COMMITTEE OF THE LITEEAEY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OP NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. They burning both with fervent fireTheir countreys auncestry to nuderstond. Spenser. LONDON:JOHN EUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. ^President W . X!R\\ (?AST[.J---UPON-TVNt; IrniNTED BY J. (i. JUKSlKll ANJ) CO., CLAYTON -., ._.,.mBmMp lineally descended fxoin adillingmslied Com]i anion of ^*latti of t^ofmatidy in tl]eConqueft of JPngUmdIbis Wofk illuftyadpe of tlje tide andiT\um|jl)$ of t\]t Conquepof is mt\)])tx(^ydiCt$>hmd pe^nninion moftdutifnll^ 4 iT^^efnll^ inscyibed* PREFACE England has performed, and is probably destined yet to perform,an important part in the history of nations. The era treated ofin this work was doubtless the crisis of her fate. Happily, shesurvived the shock of the Conquest, and Avas benefited by its roughdiscipline. All true-hearted Englishmen must read with peculiarfeeling this portion of our countrys annals. Surrounding nations,too, have their share of interest in it. When the Society of Anti-quaries published the beautiful copy of the Bayeux Tapestry,made, at their request, by Mr. Charles Stothard, they testifiedthe importance M^hich they attached to the document. As yetthey have published no explanation of it. The world still ex-pects it at their hands. To supply, m
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