HISTORY OF ENGLAND PART I. From the Earliest Times to the Death of Henry VII. By F. YORK POWELL, M.A. HISTORY OF ENGLAND In One Volume, Crown 8vo, price 7s. 6d. ; or in Three Parts, PART I. BY F. YORK POWELL, M.A. FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF HENRY VII. PART II. BY T. F. TOUT, M.A. FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE REVOLUTION OF 1689. PART III. BY T. F. TOUT, M.A. WILLIAM AND MARY TO THE DEATH OF LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. PROFESSOR OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY PART I. From the Earliest Times to the Death of Henry VII, BY F. YORK POWELL, M.A. NEW IMPRESSION LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 1906 All rights reserved ! 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. shrunk from noticing institutions and 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 contem porary authority, I have nevertheless tried to write in a simple, straightforward style, and have added a brief glossary of those few unusual or technical words I have been unable to avoid, or explain in the text. While I have not events for the full 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. To the counsels of friends at present engaged in active 206463 |