This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. THE ENGLAND OF HENRY I. 1100-1135. " WHEN the green tree, cut asunder in the midst and severed by the space of three furlongs, shall be grafted in again and shall bring forth flowers and fruit, --then at last may England hope to see the end of her sorrows."1 So closed the prophecy in which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. THE ENGLAND OF HENRY I. 1100-1135. " WHEN the green tree, cut asunder in the midst and severed by the space of three furlongs, shall be grafted in again and shall bring forth flowers and fruit, --then at last may England hope to see the end of her sorrows."1 So closed the prophecy in which the dying king Eadward the Confessor foretold the destiny in store for his country after his departure. His words, mocked at by one of the listeners, incomprehensible to all, found an easy interpretation a hundred years later. The green tree of the West-Saxon monarchy had fallen beneath Duke William's battle-axe; three alien reigns had parted its surviving branch from the stem; the marriage of Henry I. with a princess of the old English blood-royal had grafted it in again.2 One flower sprung from that union had indeed bloomed only to die ere it reached its prime,3 but another had brought forth the promised fruit; and the dim ideal of national prosperity and union which English and Normans alike associated with the revered name of the Confessor was growing at last into a real and living thing beneath the sceptre of Henry Fitz-Empress. There are, at first glance, few stranger things in history than the revival thus prefigured: --a national revival growing 1 Vita Edwardi (Luard), p. 431. a /Ethelred of Rievaux, Vita S. Edw. Regis (Twysden, X. Scriptt.), col. 401. 3 Will. Malm. Gesta Reg., 1. v. c. 419 (Hardy, p. 652), notes that the fulfilment of the prophecy was looked for in William the .lEtheling. VOL. I. B up, as it seems, in the most adverse circumstances, under the pressure of an alien government, of a race of kings who were strangers alike to the men of old English blood and to the descendants of those who had come over with the...
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