THE CLASS HISTORY OF ENGLAND. WITH NUMEROUS MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED: LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] 228. f. 115 OXFO PREFACE. IT is the object of the Authors of the CLASS HISTORY OF ENGLAND to provide for Students, whether reading History in class, attending Historical Lectures, or preparing for Examinations, an easy Manual, based upon the latest results of the study of English constitutional, political, and social history. The MAIN LINES of English History are carefully emphasised, and the facts introduced are selected for their value in marking the stages of national development from age to age. The work is divided into THREE PARTS : I. The Foundation of the English Nation and Constitution. III.-The Modern Development of the English Nation and Constitution. Each of these is complete in itself, and, after an acquaintance with the "SIMPLE OUTLINE OF ENGLISH HISTORY," the pupil will find no difficulty in taking up the thread either with the Foundation of Parliament (Part II.), or with the commencement of modern political movements at The Revolution (Part III.). Indeed, it is the opinion of the Authors that the remote questions involved in Early English History are, with most pupils, best reserved until the last. In using this Book for CLASS TEACHING the master will find opportunities in every paragraph for oral teaching, or for reference to the picturesque descriptions of Green, Froude, Macaulay, and other easily accessible writers mentioned in the List of Contents. DICTATION LESSONS may advantageously be taken from those sources, and pupils may also be referred to them for more detailed information to be worked up into their essays. To these indispensable methods of historical instruction, -oral teaching, reference, and essay writing,—this manual will supply a central line round which facts may be grouped in harmonious relation and due proportion. Students attending HISTORICAL LECTURES will also find in this work a useful text-book around which to gather the more detailed and discursive knowledge offered to them, and it will be a helpful compendium to those who are finally gathering up their knowledge for EXAMINATION. For such especially the Synopsis of Contents has been added. The Illustrations will be found of real value, as illustrating the costumes, weapons, architecture, etc., of the time. LA BELLE SAUVAGE YARD, 1884. CONTENTS. ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH HISTORY, WITH DATES LIST OF MAPS Part E. THE FOUNDATION OF THE ENGLISH NATION AND CONSTITU- "Conquest of England," pp. 130-300. For chaps. vi., vii., IX.-SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE OF THE EARLY ENGLISH 56 X.-LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND MANNERS "Making of England." "Conquest of England." Morley's "First Sketch of English Literature," pp. 1-39. Morley's "Library of English Literature," i., pp. 3-11; ii., pp. 1– 28 ; "History of the English People," i. pp. 97-103. "Conquest of 67 For the effects of the Norman Conquest and the policy of the For the Plantagenet Monarchy and the struggle for the Charter, Morley's "First Sketch," pp. 39-94. Morley's "Library of Part EE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL SELF-GOVERNMENT (FROM EDWARD I. TO THE REVOLUTION). History of the English People," i., pp. 341-371. For the Constitutional Reforms of Edward I., see Stubb's "Con- "History of the English People," i., pp. 546-576; ii., pp. 5-66. Stubb's "Constitutional History," chap. xviii. Gardiner's "History of the English People," ii., pp. 197-242. XIII. THE RESTORATION OF THE OLD RELIGION "History of the English People," ii., pp. 243–294. For the English Constitution and Church from Henry VII. to XV. THE ENGLISH ISLAND AND THE SPANISH EMPIRE "History of the English People," ii., pp. 329-500. Hallam's" "Constitutional History," chaps. iii., iv., and v. Creighton's On the period from Wolsey's Fall to the Armada consult Froude's XVI. THE CROWN AND THE PARLIAMENT UNDER JAMES I.. 235 "History of the English People," iii., pp. 37-121. Hallam's "Constitutional History," chap. vi. Gardiner's "History of James I.," and his "History of the Spanish Marriage." XVII. THE CROWN AND THE PARLIAMENT UNDER CHARLES I. 241 "History of the English People," iii., pp. 122-216. Hallam's "Constitutional History," chaps. vii., viii. and ix. Gardi- ner's "England under Buckingham and Charles I.," and the History of the English People," iii. pp. 245-263. Hallam's |