Excerpt from The Great English Writers From Chaucer to George Eliot, With Selections Illustrating Their Works: A Text-Book of English Literature for the Use of Schools Occasionally the record of kings and battles is interrupted by a song, just as in the Hebrew Chronicles occurs a song or a prayer after long genealogies or lists of rulers. From Alfred's time, the Chronicle was kept year by year in seven different monasteries, and was continued until the accession of Henry IL, in 1154. 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.