Contents.

CHAPTER I.
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The Ancient Britons,	9
CHAPTER II.
The Romans in Britain,	16
CHAPTER III.
The Saxon Heptarchy,	24
CHAPTER IV.
Manners of the Saxons,	33
CHAPTER V.
The Danes and Alfred the Great,	41
CHAPTER VI.
From the Death of Alfred to the Norman Conquest,	50
CHAPTER VII.
The Norman Conquest,	59
CHAPTER VIII.
The Norman Period—1087 to 1154,	68
CHAPTER IX.
Henry the Second, Richard the First, and John—1154 to 1216,	82
CHAPTER X.
From the Death of King John to the Accession of Richard the Second— 1216 to 1377,	95
CHAPTER XI.
From the Accession of Richard the Second to the War of the Roses— 1377 to 1422,	110
CHAPTER XII.
The Wars of the Roses—1422 to 1461,	119
CHAPTER XIII.
From the Battle of Bosworth, to Queen Elizabeth—1461 to 1558,	128
CHAPTER XIV.
Queen Elizabeth— 1558 to 1603,	140
CHAPTER XV.
The Stuarts. From the Union to the Revolution—1603 to 1689,	150
CHAPTER XVI.
The Revolution—1689 to 1714,	168
CHAPTER XVII.
House of Hanover—1714 to 1830,	175
CHAPTER XVIII.
From the Death of George the Third, 1830, to the Present Time,	190