essopp's "Coming of the Friars."
Jane Porter's "Scottish Chiefs."

V

EDWARD III

Papers,--

1. Edward and Scotland.

Death of Bruce, Balliol.

2. Edward and France.

Crecy, Calais, Poitiers.

3. The Black Prince.

The Black Death.

4. Wiclif.

Story of the English Bible. Lollardy.

5. Chancer.

Mediaeval Romances.
The Troubadours.

Suggested Readings,--

Froissart's Chronicle.
Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."

VI

RICHARD II AND RICHARD III

Papers,--

1. The Peasants' Revolt.

Langland's "Piers Plowman."

2. Henry IV and Henry V.

Their characters, their Queens.
Agincourt.

3. Henry VI

The Wars of the Roses.

4. Joan of Arc.

5. Edward IV and Richard III.

"Warwick, the Kingmaker."
The Princes in the Tower.
Caxton.

Suggested Readings,--

Shakespeare's "Henry IV," "Henry V," "Henry VI," "Richard III."
Stevenson's "Black Arrow."
Rossetti's "The King's Tragedy."
De Quincey's "Joan of Arc."

VII

THE TUDORS

Papers,--

1. Henry VII.

Perkin Warbeck.
Sebastian Cabot.
Dean Colet.
Erasmus.

2. Henry VIII.

His Wives, Field of Cloth of Gold.
Quarrel with the Pope, More's "Utopia."
Tyndal's New Testament.

3. Edward VI.

Book of Common Prayer.
Boys' Schools in England.

4. Mary.

Philip of Spain.
Archbishop Cranmer.

Suggested Readings,--

More's "Utopia."
Shakespeare's "Henry VIII."
Scott's "Marmion."
Tennyson's "Queen Mary."

VIII

ELIZABETH, THE GREATEST TUDOR

Papers,--

1. Lady Jane Grey, and Mary, Queen of Scots.

2. Foreign Relations.

The Armada, Holland.

3. The Stage.

Shakespeare, Marlowe, Ben Jonson.

4. Literature.

Lyly, Spenser, Bacon.

5. The Adventurers.

Raleigh, Drake, Frobisher, Sir Philip Sidney.

Suggested Readings,--

Chas. Kingsley's "Westward Ho!"
Scott's "Kenilworth."
Sidney's "Defense of Poesie."
Spenser's "Faerie Queene."
Bacon's Essays.

IX

JAMES I AND CHARLES I

Papers,--

1. James I, The Man.

Birth, character, pedantry. The King James Version of the Bible.

2. The Gunpowder Plot.

3. England and the New World.

Landing of the Pilgrims.
Raleigh's Expeditions, etc.

4. Charles I.

Divine Right of Kings and Parliament.
Lane, Hampden, Pym.

5. Milton.

Suggested Readings,--

Scott's "Fortunes of Nigel."
Milton's "L'Allegro."
Hobbes' "Leviathan."
Longfellow's