ossible number."

The historic development of Ireland and Scotland, and the events which
have brought these two countries into organic union with England are,
of necessity, very briefly related.

M. P. P.

CONTENTS

_HISTORY OF ENGLAND_

CHAPTER I.

PAGE

Ancient Britain--Caesar's Invasion--Britain a Roman
Province--Boadicea--Lyndin or London--Roman Legions
Withdrawn--Angles and Saxons--Cerdic--Teutonic
Invasion--English Kingdoms Consolidated . . . . . . . . . . . 9

CHAPTER II.

Augustine--Edwin--Caedmon--Baeda--Alfred--Canute--Edward
the Confessor--Harold--William the Conqueror . . . . . . . . . 25

CHAPTER III.

"Gilds" and Boroughs--William II.--Crusades--Henry I.--Henry
II.--Becket's Death--Richard I.--John--Magna Charta . . . . . 40

CHAPTER IV.

Henry III.--Roger Bacon--First True Parliament--Edward
I.--Conquest of Wales--of Scotland--Edward II.--Edward
III.--Battle of Crecy--Richard II.--Wickliffe . . . . . . . . 51

CHAPTER V.

House of Lancaster--Henry IV.--Henry V.--Agincourt--Battle of
Orleans--Wars of the Roses--House of York--Edward IV.--Richard
III.--Henry VII.--Printing Introduced. . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

CHAPTER VI.

Henry VIII.--Wolsey--Reformation--Edward VI.--Mary . . . . . . . 73

CHAPTER VII.

Elizabeth--East India Company Chartered--Colonization of
Virginia--Flodden Field--Birth of Mary Stuart--Mary Stuart's
Death--Spanish Armada--Francis Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

CHAPTER VIII.

James I.--First New England Colony--Gunpowder Plot--Translation
of Bible--Charles I.--Archbishop Laud--John Hampden--_Petition
of Right_--Massachusetts Chartered--Earl Strafford--_Star
Chamber_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

CHAPTER IX.

Long Parliament--Death of Strafford and Laud--Oliver
Cromwell--Death of Charles I.--Long Parliament
Dispersed--Charles II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

CHAPTER X.

Act of Habeas Corpus--Death of Charles II.--Milton--Bunyan--James
II.--William and Mary--Battle of the Boyne . . . . . . . . . . 122

CHAPTER XI.

Anne--Marlborough--Battle of Blenheim--House of Hanover--George
I.--George II.--Walpole--British Dominion in India--Battle
of Quebec--John Wesley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

CHAPTER XII.

George III.--St