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Preface; 1. Dialects and their value; 2. Dialects in early times; 3. Thedialects of Northumbria, till AD 1300; 4. The dialects of Northumbria, AD1300-1400; 5. Northumbrian in the fifteenth century; 6. The southern dialect;7. The southern dialect of Kent; 8. The Mercian dialect; 9. Foreign elementsin the dialects; 10. Later history of the dialects; 11. The modern dialects;12. A few specimens; Bibliography; Index; Facsimile: the only Englishproclamation of Henry III.