B/w illustrations. Contents: PART I: Select Chronicles and Narratives; PART II: Government and Administration; PART III: The Church; PART IV: Land and People; Tables; Index to Texts; Maps. The purpose of the series is to present to the general reader the fundamental sources of English history, which are today more often quoted than read and more often sought than found. Volume II contains a wide selection of material translated mostly from Latin or Old English records covering the period from Edward the Confessor to the end of the reign of the first Angevin monarch, Henry II. . four maps are inserted and the genealogies are augmented by tables showing the descent of the Norman kings of Sicily and southern Italy, and of the Salian and Hohenstaufen emperors and kings of Germany.