Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate A Short History of England

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Ginn, 1922 - 849 pàgines

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EADMER Historia Novorum R S Vol 81 p 186
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Rules for the ordeal of iron
79
Letter from Cnut sent from Rome to the English people
87
The conversion of East Anglia 52
98
Making of the New Forest
106
A fight with the Saracens in the march from Acre
107
RILEY Memorials of London pp 226
121
THOMAS MADOX History and Antiquities of the
134
CHAPTER VIII FOUNDATIONS OF NATIONAL
137
The Political and the Social Struggle
148
The penance of the king
158
Treaty between Meer Jaffier and the English
161
Giraldus Cambrensis and the Conquest of Ireland
164
Richard I and the Third Crusade
171
The laying of the interdict
177
THE FORMATION OF A UNITED
188
The Monasteries
195
A visit of the Emperor Severus A D 208211
208
Personal description of Edward I
226
YEARS
233
Personal Characteristics of Elizabeth
236
Bourchier Lord Berners
246
Wycliffe and the Lollards
266
The death of James and the accession of Charles
269
Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi R S Vol 49 pt 2 p 71
279
A letter from Wales to the king 1403
283
The kings last night
298
The Reigns of Edward IV and Richard III
299
Caxtons difficulties with the English language
328
The Early Stages of the Reformation
336
Letters relating to the Suppression of the Monasteries
345
The Reign of Queen Mary
355
Instructions from the English government to the gov
360
CHAPTER XIIITHE REIGN OF ELIZABETH
361
The Struggle with the Catholics
382
Commerce and Explorations
394
Mary Queen of Scots and the Armada
403
Speech of Queen Elizabeth to parliament November
415
A Martin Marprelate tract
423
Extracts from one of Wycliffes tracts
433
A letter from Raleigh to Prince Henry
439

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Pàgina 623 - Britain ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Pàgina 434 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Pàgina 408 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear...
Pàgina 504 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Pàgina 647 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Pàgina 628 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection — when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Pàgina 545 - Westminster do resolve that William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be and be declared king and queen of England, France and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belonging, to hold the crown and royal dignity of the said kingdoms and dominions to them, the said prince and princess, during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange...
Pàgina 646 - You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Pàgina 739 - It shall not be required as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school, or any place of religious worship, or that he shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious subjects in the school or elsewhere...
Pàgina 525 - Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river, or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stairs by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons, I perceive, were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they burned their wings and fell down.

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