SEVENTEEN LECTURES ON THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY AND KINDRED SUBJECTS DELIVERED AT OXFORD, UNDER STATUTORY OBLIGATION IN THE YEARS 1867—1884 BV WILLIAM STUBBS, D.D. Bishop of Chester and Honorary Student of Christ Church Late Regius Professor of Modem History LL.D. of Cambridge and Edinburgh Doctor in utroque jure, Heidelberg A Member of the Court of the Victoria Universityand A η Honorary Member of the Imperial University of S. Vladimir of Kieff And of the Royal Bavarian^ Prussian^ Irish and Danish Academies CorresPondettt oj the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institute of France êxfaxit AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1887 [All rights retervtd]