Epochs of English History: A Complete Edition in One Volume, Part 1

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Longmans, Green & Company, 1886 - Great Britain - 722 pages
 

Contents

The Three Keltic Peoples
26
England after the English Conquest
27
Conversion of Kent
28
Northumberland
30
The Rise of Wessex
39
The Church
42
Wessex and the Marchland
44
Egbert
48
XII
52
Ethelwolf and his Elder Sons Alfred the TruthTeller
55
The Keltic Peoples
64
England under the Great English Kings
65
Edward the Elder
66
Ethelstan the Steadfast
69
Edmund the Deeddoer
72
Edred the Chosen
73
Edwy
74
Edgar the Peacewinner
75
Edward the Martyr
78
Changes in England under the Great Kings
80
Ethelred the Unready PAGB
82
I
83
5
85
Edmund Ironside
90
XXV
96
The House of Godwin
99
Harold Godwins
106
The House of Leofric
116
BOOK II
119
Williams Government
128
William I and his Sons
134
CHAP
144
V
151
Dominions of the Angevin Kings
153
IX
163
XI
171
III
177
Johns Quarrel with his Barons
179
William the Conqueror and his Children
185
ΤΟ 16
193
The Barons
196
Chief Claimants to the Scottish Crown 12912
202
and Parliament PAGE 196
206
Wales
209
Scotland
213
First and Second Conquests of Scotland
219
Robert Bruce
221
219
222
Scotland in the Thirteenth Century
225
Wiclif X
226
First Stage of the Hundred Years
230
France after the Treaty of 1259
235
Second Stage of the Hundred Years
237
Third Stage of the Hundred Years
238
22
240
France after the Peace of Bretigny
242
Parliamentary Progress
244
Rising of the Commons
249
XV
253
The Lollards
256
The House of Lancaster 226 230
258
Henry VI
264
Wars of the Roses and House of York
270
Line of York 270
273
England under the Plantagenet Kings
277
Royal Descent of the Tudors
279
BOOK IV
283
14851509
285
Henry VIII and Wolsey
292
Separation from the Pope
301
Henry VIII and Cromwell
306
Reform of Doctrine
311
28
316
Protestant Misrule
318
Descendants of Henry VII
325
Catholicism brought back
326
30
327
Religious Settlement under Elizabeth
333
England and Scotland 283
338
Table showing Marys claim to the English Throne
342
England and Spain
354
England after the Armada
360
English Discoveries in the West in the Sixteenth Century enth
361
Troubles of Elizabeths Last Years
363
The Tudors and Stuarts
370
Puritans and Roman Catholics
372
Opposition between King and Parliament
433
XXI
444
The Revolution 1688
450
The Houses of Stuart and Hanover
451
Ireland and the Revolution
464
The Williamite War with France
468
William III and his Parliaments PAGE
472
The Causes of the War of the Spanish Succession
479
The Low Countries and Neighbouring Lands
488
Constitutional History during the
490
The Tory Ministry and the Peace of Utrecht
495
The First Years of the House of Hanover
499
The Ministry of Sir Robert Walpole
505
39
510
44
512
The Pelhams
513
48
515
55
518
How the Seven Years War was brought about
520
The Events of the Seven Years
524
North America and the West Indies
527
The Rise of the English Power in India
531
The First Ten Years of George III s Reign
539
66
542
George III and Lord North
544
69
547
The First Ministers or Heads of the Ministries which held
555
BOOK VII
556
The Causes of the Quarrel
557
North America 17601783
559
The Fighting in America 17751782
563
War with France and Spain
573
The Peoples of India
576
India 17601820
577
India under Warren Hastings
579
India 17831813
585
India under the New Charter
590
Pitt as a Peace Minister
592
England during the French Revolution
597
Pitt as a War Minister
601
The Demand for Irish Independence
610
Ireland 1798
611
Ireland 17821798
613
Irish Rebellion of 1798
617
Europe 17801815
623
The European War 18031807
624
The Peninsular
628
Spain and Portugal 18071815
629
The Fall of Napoleon PAGE
639
The Years of Peace
641
The Demand for Reforms
645
List of Prime Ministers 18201874
650
BOOK VIII
651
The Queens Trial II III 651
653
657
655
Commercial Reform
657
The Death of Canning
659
Wellington Prime Minister
661
Battle of Navarino
662
Catholic Emancipation
663
European Revolution
665
First Reform Bill
668
Second Reform Bill
671
Third Reform Bill
673
Results of the Reform Bill
674
Sir R Peels First Ministry
676
The Kings Last Years
678
The New Reign
679
The Queens Marriage
681
Afghanistan XVIII Free Trade
682
The Charter
687
The Great Exhibition
689
The Crimean
691
Indian Mutiny
693
Lord Derby XXIV Lord Palmerston
695
Mr Disraeli
696
Irish Church and Land
701
War between France and Germany
703
Liberal Reverses
704
557
709
73
713
80
714
617
716
673
717
628
718
363
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