HISTORY OF ENGLAND

PART I.

From the Earliest Times to the Death of Henry VII.

BY F. YORK POWELL, M.A.

PART II.

FROM THE DEATH OF HENRY VII. TO THE

PRESENT TIME.

BY J. M. MACKAY, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT LIVERPOOL COLLEGE.

FOR THE use of middle forms of SCHOOLS

BY

F. YORK POWELL, M.A.

SENIOR STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD

AND

J. M. MACKAY, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT LIVERPOOL COLLEGE

PART I.

From the Earliest Times to the Death of Henry VII.

By F. YORK POWELL, M.A.

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WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON

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PREFACE

THIS History of England was planned and has been written with an especial view to its use in Schools, and among younger students who read the subject. It contains, first, a connected relation of the main facts of the political and constitutional history in due chronological order; secondly, a sketch as thorough as space would allow, of the course and progress of the language, literature, and social life of the English people, in a series of chapters at the end of the various periods into which the history naturally falls. While I have not shrunk from noticing institutions and events for the full understanding of which the beginner may require the teacher's oral help; and while I have thought it well to give the most dramatic and pathetic incidents of the story wherever I could in the very words of a contemporary authority, I have nevertheless tried to write in a simple, straightforward style, and have added a brief glossary of the few unusual or technical words I have been unable to avoid, or explain in the text.,

Maps, Plans, Tables, and Pedigrees have been supplied in sufficient detail to enable the reader to get a true idea of the relative positions of the persons or places named in the text.

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