I rujii'OSE to write the history of England, from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is ( »rwiocuon AV^n'n memory of men still living. I shall recount the errors which; in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall trace the course of that revolution which terminated the long struggle between our sovereigns and their parliaments, and bound up together the rights of the people and the title of the reigning dynasty. I shall1 relate how the new settlement was, during many troubled years, successfully defended against foreign arid domestic enemies; how, under that settle-
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jiient, the authority of law and the security of property were found to be compatible with a liberty of discussion and of individual action never before known; how, from the auspicious union of order and freedom, sprang a prosperity of which the annals of human affairs had furnished no example; how our country, from a state of ignominious vas
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Introduction 13; Britain under the Romans 15; Britain under the Saxons IS; Conversion of the Saxons to Christianity 17; Dauish Invasions 20; The Normans 21; The Norman Conquest 23; Separation of England and Normandy 25; Amalgamation of Races 26; English Conquests on the Continent 28; Wars of the Roses 30; Extinction of Villeinage 31; Beneficial Operation of the Roman Catholic Religion 32; The early Ecgllsh Polity often misrepresented, and why 34; Nature of the limited Monarchies of the Middle Ages; Prerogatives of the early English Kings 37; Limitations of the Prerogative 38; Resistance an ordinary Check on Tyranny in the Middle Ages 42; Peculiar Character of the English Aristocracy 45; Government of the Tudors'47; Limited Monarchies of the Middle Ages generally turned into; absolute Monarchies 4fl; The English Monarchy a singular Exception 50; The Reformation and its Effects 51; Origin of the Ch
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jiient, the authority of law and the security of property were found to be compatible with a liberty of discussion and of individual action never before known; how, from the auspicious union of order and freedom, sprang a prosperity of which the annals of human affairs had furnished no example; how our country, from a state of ignominious vas
Table of Contents
Introduction 13; Britain under the Romans 15; Britain under the Saxons IS; Conversion of the Saxons to Christianity 17; Dauish Invasions 20; The Normans 21; The Norman Conquest 23; Separation of England and Normandy 25; Amalgamation of Races 26; English Conquests on the Continent 28; Wars of the Roses 30; Extinction of Villeinage 31; Beneficial Operation of the Roman Catholic Religion 32; The early Ecgllsh Polity often misrepresented, and why 34; Nature of the limited Monarchies of the Middle Ages; Prerogatives of the early English Kings 37; Limitations of the Prerogative 38; Resistance an ordinary Check on Tyranny in the Middle Ages 42; Peculiar Character of the English Aristocracy 45; Government of the Tudors'47; Limited Monarchies of the Middle Ages generally turned into; absolute Monarchies 4fl; The English Monarchy a singular Exception 50; The Reformation and its Effects 51; Origin of the Ch
