Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Foundation of Waltham Abbey: The Tract "De Inventione Sanctae Crucis Nostrae in Monte Acuto Et De Ductione Ejusdem Apud Waltham"
I. Harold, the son of Godwin, was a man the least record of whose acts and fate has an interest for English men. He was also one, if history tells the truth about him, not one of whose deeds or designs can fairly be looked on as being without weight or significance. His was the truest heart, and the wisest head, and the strongest and gentlest hand in the land 1.
If, as we have every reason to think, his foundation of Waltham was not a mere conforming with the fashion of the age, but the cherished design of a wise devotion, and an expression of a true sense of the needs of his Church and country at the time, the following pages, which contain all that is known of the history of it, have an interest not confined to local antiquaries, or indeed to antiquaries at all.
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