CHILDREN, 4 Document Of Unconscious Squibs 'A teacher of history, driven by a strong sense of duty and, one may suspect, a slight feeling of hysteria, has reconstructed the history of England from some "hitherto unworked and neglected do: umetary sources." This. highly original work, compiled from thousands of answers to history examinations, appears in the current number of The Cornhill Magazine. The boys and girls who supplied him with his new information about England's past did not, unfortunately, reveal much of what happened before 1068. All that his authorities give him on those early days is the fact that the Sexons were a "lazy and glutinous ace When we come to the Norman Conquest there is much of great interest hitherto unknown to the learned. The Domesday Book was 'a much more detailed record than has been supposed. In it were recorded "how many bees were kept," and "not an ox or a pig passed by that had not his name written in this book." An extraordinary picture this of neatly labelled creatures marching sedately by a booth, like voters registering, The Cornhill writer suggests the subject 'a5 suitable for Mr. George Morrow's artful hand. And visualize the difficulties of a "Norman scribe trying fo certain the names of Saxon The Real Magna Charta Tt appears that historians have been mistaken as to the nature of Magna Charta, "The barons compelled him (King John) to sing it. When the bold new historians come to the Tudors we learn that Henry VIII should not be blamed for discarding his wives, "Henry became prey to polygamy," according to tone youthful psychologist. The extent to which the King suffered from that painful disease is shown by the neatly allusive phrase of a young writer who records that Henry's marring to Anne of Cleves "was solomonize Serious discussions are given of Wolsey, a "great and dating warrier," who captured Quebec, and "son the battle of Waterloo and the battle at Trafalgar Square;" of Henry's freeing England "from the ecclesiastical jokes of the Pope;" of the Bill of Rights, which provided that "any subject could partition the King! incidents of poll 'William Pitt took his degree when he was only 7. At the age of 19 his father died and Pitt served in the Bar." 'The researcher comments that this sentence makes Pitt' father marry remarkably young.
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