CONTENTS

LEADING DATES

PERIOD

I. BRITAIN BEFORE WRITTEN HISTORY BEGAN

II. THE GEOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND IN RELATION TO ITS HISTORY

III. ROMAN BRITAIN; A CIVILIZATION WHICH DID NOT CIVILIZE

IV. THE COMING OF THE SAXONS; THE COMING OF THE NOR-

MANS

V. THE NORMAN SOVEREIGNS 1

VI. THE ANGEVINS, OR PLANTAGENETS; RISE OF THE ENGLISH

NATION 1

82

VII. THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF FEUDALISM 1.

148

VIII. ABSOLUTISM OF THE CROWN; THE REFORMATION; THE

NEW LEARNING1.

178

IX. THE STUART PERIOD; THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS ver-

sus THE DIVINE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE 1.

234

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X. INDIA GAINED; AMERICA LOST -- - PARLIAMENTARY REFORM

- GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE

A GENERAL SUMMARY OF ENGLISH CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY

CONSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENTS

GENEALOGICAL DESCENT OF THE ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS 2

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1 Each of these six Periods is followed by a General Reference Summary of that
period. See pp. 43, 71, 141, 174, 230, 316.

2 For special Genealogical Tables see pp. 124, 140, 161, 172, 179, 207, 323.

IV. The Continental Homes of the English with their Succes-
sive Invasions of Britain

VI. Danish England-England after the Treaty of Wedmore, 878
VII. England in 1066, showing the Four Great Earldoms of Nor-
thumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, and Wessex

VIII. Possessions of William the Conqueror (in colors)

X. The Dominions of the Plantagenets, Time of Henry II (in

XII. The English Possessions in France, 1360 (in colors)

XIII. England and Wales (1066-1485), showing the Battlefields of

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the Wars of the Roses

172

XIV. The World at the Accession of Henry VII, showing Voyages

of Discovery by the Cabots and Others

185

XV. Monasteries destroyed by Henry VIII.

XVI. First English Settlements in America, and Drake's Voyage

199

around the Globe

222

XVII. The Homes of the Pilgrims in England and Holland (double

page)

240

XVIII. England during the Great Civil War of the Seventeenth

XXIII. The British Empire now (double page, in colors)

422

XXIV. The British in Africa (in colors)

428

XXV. County Map of England (in colors)

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Roman Road, Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge in the distance

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27

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40

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A Sedan Chair

"Old Sarum Hill"

The Bristol Riot .

One of the First Passenger Trains

Reception by Hudson, "The Railway King," 1845 ·
"Your Majesty"

The Houses of Parliament, with Westminster Abbey
Telegraph Poster, 1845

Gladstone speaking in the House of Commons

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