The Granville illustrated history of England, ed. by T. J. Livesey. 2 pt. [in 1 vol.].

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Contents

KING EDWIN AND ST PAULINUS
9
THE NORSEMANS SERF
12
SAXON LAWS AND CUSTOMS
13
KING ALFREDS EARLY STRUGGLES PAGE 158
14
ΙΟ II
15
QUEEN MARY
17
QUEEN ELIZABETH
18
ELIZABETHS COURT
19
MARY STUART
20
EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
21
THE SPANISH ARMADA
22
ELIZABETH AT TILBURY
23
CROMWELLS WARS
31
THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE
32
CHARLES II THE RESTORATION
33
THE GREAT PLAGUE
34
TRIAL OF THE SEVEN BISHOPS
35
WHAT ALFRED DID FOR HIS COUNTRY
39
THE BATTLE OF BRUNANBURG
42
ST DUNSTAN
46
EDGAR THE PEACEABLE
48
THE DANISH CONQUEST
51
KING CANUTE THE GREAT
53
KING CANUTES PILGRIMAGE
56
THE LAST DANISH KINGS
58
THE ENGLISH RESTORATION
60
THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS
66
GANG ROLLS CHILDREN THE NORMANS
69
THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
72
LAST DAYS OF THE CONQUEROR
75
SECTION PAGE 29 THE BURIAL OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
78
THE RED KING THE CRUSADES
80
HENRY I INVESTITURE DISPUTE
84
THE WHITE SHIP
87
STEPHEN AND THE EMPRESS MAUDE
91
THE PLANTAGENET KINGS
95
ST THOMAS ABECKET
99
THE MURDER OF ABECKET
102
CONQUEST OF IRELAND
106
RICHARD I THE CRUSADERS
109
RICHARD IN CAPTIVITY
113
DEATH OF KING RICHARD
116
THE DEATH OF RICHARD I
120
KING JOHN MURDER OF ARTHUR
121
MAGNA CHARTA
124
HUBERT AND ARTHUR
128
HENRY III THE BARONS WAR
130
KING EDWARD AND QUEEN ELEANOR
134
CONQUEST OF WALES AND SCOTLAND
137
THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
139
EDWARD II AND HIS FAVOURITES
142
EDWARD III DEATH OF MORTIMER
145
THE BATTLE OF CRECY
149
THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY
154
CHIVALRY
158
THE BATTLE OF POITIERS
159
EDWARD III AND QUEEN PHILIPPA
161
RICHARD II WAT TYLER
165
THE LOSS OF THE CROWN
166
THE LANCASTRIAN KINGS
169
MADCAP HARRY
171
HENRY V AGINCOURT
174
BATTLE OF AGINCOURT
176

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Page 44 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go? Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell.
Page 33 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 173 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 90 - Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane!
Page 132 - twas all about," Young Peterkin he cries; And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder-waiting eyes; "Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for.
Page 131 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And, with a natural sigh, "'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he, "Who fell in the great victory.
Page 132 - twas a famous victory! "My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 173 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 100 - He is coming ! he is coming ! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom. There was glory on his forehead, There was lustre in his eye, And he never walked to battle More proudly than to die...
Page 43 - And sudden, as he spoke, From the sharp ridges of the hill, All downward to the banks of Till Was wreathed in sable smoke Volumed and fast, and rolling far, The cloud enveloped Scotland's war, As down the hill they broke ; Nor martial shout, nor minstrel tone, Announced their march ; their tread alone, At times one warning trumpet blown, At times a stifled hum, Told England, from his mountain- throne King James did rushing come.

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