Excerpt from An Historical View of the English Government, Vol. 1 of 4: From the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain, to the Revolution in 1688: To Which Are Subjoined, Some Dissertations Connected With the History of the Government, From the Revolution to the Present Time The great series of events in the history of England may be divided into three parts: the first, extending from the settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Norman conquest; the second, 'from the reign of William the Conqueror to the accession of the house of Stuart; the third, from the reign of James the First to the present time. The important changes exhibited in the state of the country, and in the situation of its inhabitants, appear, like a sort of natural boundaries, to mark out these different periods, and to recommend them as Objects of distinct and separate exa mination. The first period contains the conquest of England by the northern barbarians, the divi sion of the country under the different chiefs by whom that people were conducted, the subsequent union of those principalities under one sovereign, and the course of public trans actions under the Saxon and Danish mo narchs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.