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Excerpt from The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in Which He Lived, Vol. 1 of 5: To Which Is Prefixed a History of the Revolutions of England, From the Death of Edward the Confessor to the Birth of Henry the Second
All difquifitions of a critical nature, con cerning the'dubious and controverted points which occur in this work, or any fuch re marks as I think would difagreeably interrupt the narration, I {hall throw into notes, and place them at the end of each volume, reciting the fe'veral paifages to which they refer, at the head of each note. There will alfo be joined to thefe fome valuable pieces, not printed be fore, or printed in books that are in Very few hands; and fome tranfcripts of charters, laws, ordinances, 80c. Which are too long to be ih ferred in the body of the hiftory, or which fome of my readers may like to fee in the ori ginal language. 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.