Excerpt from School-Days of Eminent Men: I. Sketches of the Progress of Education in England, From the Reign of King Alfred to That of Queen Victoria; II. Early Lives of Celebrated British Authors, Philosophers and Poets, Inventors and Discoverers, Divines, Heroes, Statesmen and Legislators Germany: it lasted until the Norman invasion, and was entirely disused before the twelfth century. The Writing introduced by William I. Is commonly called Norman, though the characters are nearly Lombard; and they were used in charters till the reign of Edward III., with very little variation. The hand called modern Gothic was introduced into England in the twelfth century, though it had been prae ticed in Germany about the close of the ninth. The Normans also brought into England the custom of using seals, bearing the impress of a knight on horseback instead of the anglo-saxon custom of signing a deed. 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.