Henry Ellis 
Polydore Vergil’s English History [PDF ebook] 
From an Early Translation; Preserved Among the Mss of the Old Royal Library in the British Museum; Containing the First Eight Books, Comprising the Period Prior to the Norman Conquest

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Three last Reigns in this Translation of Polydore Vergil’s History have already formed a separate Volume of the Camden Society’s Publications. The interest they created led the Council to believe that an edition of the whole was desirable; not only as affording a faithful version of a work hitherto confined to the Latin tongue, but as preserving a beautiful Translation, made at a period when our language was beginning to assume the character of modern elegance.<br><br>The present Volume extends from the earliest traditions of our History to the close of the Anglo-Saxon period. A second, to be published after an interval, will carry it on to the end of the reign of Henry the Third. And a third Volume will take it to the close of the reign of Henry the Fifth, at which the Volume of the Three Reigns, already published, commences.