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G REAT TALE S
FROM
ENGLISH
H I STO RY
Also by Robert Lacey
ROBERT, EAR L OF ESSEX
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HE NRY VIII
THE QU EE NS OF THE NORTH AT L ANTIC
SIR WALT ER RALEGH
MAJES TY: ELIZABETH II AND THE HOUSE OF WI NDSOR
THE KI NGD OM
PRI NC ESS
ARIS TO CRATS
FORD: THE ME N AND THE MACHI NE
GOD BLESS HER!
QUEE N MOTHER
LIT TLE MAN
GR AC E
SOTHEBY ’S: BIDDI NG FOR CL ASS
THE YEAR

THE QUEE N MOTHER’S CE NTURY
ROYAL: HER MAJES TY QU EE N EL I ZABET H II
G REAT TALE S
FROM
ENGLISH
H I STORY
The Truth about King Arthur,
Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart
and More
ROBERT LACEY
L I T T L E , B ROW N A N D C O M PA N Y
New York
Boston
Copyright © 2003 by Robert Lacey
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First published in Great Britain by Little, Brown, 2003
The author gratefully acknowledges permission to quote from
Bede:
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
(Penguin Classics, 1995; revised
edition, 1968), translation copyright © Leo Sherley-Price, 1955, 1968;
The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis
(Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978),
translator Marjorie Chibnall, © Oxford University Press, 1978;
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
( J. M. Dent, 1996), translator M. J. Swanton,
© J. M. Dent, 1996;
Piers the Ploughman
by William Langland (Penguin Books, 1966),
translation © J. F. Goodridge, 1959, 1966.
Illustrations and maps © 2003 by Fred van Deelen
ISBN: 0-7595-1163-2
First eBook Edition: June 2004
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