Lothian 68

3. Changes in English Institutions 69

4. Growth of the King's Power 69

5. Conversion of the Freemen into Serfs 69

6. The Hundred-moot and the Lord's Court 72

7. The Towns 72

8. The Origin of the Shires 73

9. The Shire-moot 73

10. The Ealdormen and the Witenagemot 73

11. The Land 75

12. Domestic Life 75

13. Food and Drink 75

CHAPTER VI.

ENGLAND AND NORMANDY.

1. Eadward the Martyr. 975--979 78

2. AEthelred's Early Years. 979--988 79

3. The Return of the Danes. 984 79

4. The Norman Dukes. 912--1002 80

5. Political Contrast between Normandy and England 81

6. Svend's Conquest. 1002--1013 81

7. AEthelred Restored. 1014--1016 82

8. Eadmund Ironside. 1016 83

9. Cnut and the Earldoms. 1016--1035 83

10. Cnut's Empire 84

11. Cnut's Government 84

12. The Sons of Cnut. 1035--1042 85

13. Eadward the Confessor and Earl Godwine.
1042--1051 86

14. The Banishment of Godwine. 1051 87

15. Visit of Duke William. 1051 88

16. William and the Norman Church 88

17. The Return and Death of Godwine. 1052--1053 89

18. Harold's Greatness. 1053--1066 89

19. Harold and Eadward. 1057--1065 90

20. Death of Eadward. 1066 90

21. Harold and William. 1066 91

22. Stamford Bridge. 1066 93

23. The Landing of William. 1066 96

24. The Battl