Excerpt from The Church Historians of England, Vol. 5: Part I, Containing History of King Henry the First; The Acts of Stephen, King of England, and Duke of Normandy; Giraldus Cambrensis Concerning the Instruction of Princes; Richard of Devises; The History of the Archbishops of Canterbury, by Gervase Hunter, at Glasgow, (s. 3. But of very little value, as the narrative is much abridged, and the language modernised. 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.