English History for Students: Being the Introduction to the Study of English History

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The individual sacrificed to the society JO 14 The Christian Church 15 Organisation of the Church
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The Empire and the Church
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Fall of the Empire in the West
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The English Settlement and the English Kingship 4491066
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The English settlements
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Institutions of the settlers
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The Church and the Teutonic conquerors
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The King and the Witan
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Administration of justice
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Moral needs of the population
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The Christian missionaries in England
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The monastic system
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The penitential system
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Church organisation
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The Church compared with the Empire
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Union of the kingdoms under Egbert
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The Danish wars
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Growth of kingly authority
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Growth of a military aristocracy
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The Eorls superseded by the Thegns
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The change gradual
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The King and the Witenagemot
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Dunstans ecclesiastical policy
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The secular laws of Edgar
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Cnuts reign
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The House of Godwin
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CHAPTER III
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New ideas in Italy and France
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Norman organisation in England
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The national kingship
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Institutions of the first Norman kings
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Parliamentary Organisation 11991327
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The quarrel with the King of France
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The quarrel with the Pope
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The Papacy of Innocent III
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The quarrel with the baronage 8 Magna Carta
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Tentative efforts 11 Germ of the representative system 12 Accession of Henry III and the modified Charter 13 Extinction of Papal influence 14 The ...
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Simon de Montfort
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His scheme of a Representative Parliament 17 The early years of Edward I
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The national and the feudal kingship
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Edward I and Wales
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Edward I and Scotland 21 Edward I and France
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The dispute with the Clergy and the Baronage 23 Confirmatio Cartarum
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Reign of Edward II
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CHAPTER V
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Decline of the Papacy
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National unity
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The connexion between England and Flanders
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The beginning of the Hunored Years War
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The Constitution of the House of Commons
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Unity of the nation
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Growing strength of the Commons
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The labourers
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The Star Chamber
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End of the Middle Ages
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The Italian Renaissance
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The separation from Rome
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Character of the age
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The kings supremacy
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Edward VI III
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Mary
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The religious difficulty at the accession of Elizabeth
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The Elizabethan Compromise
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The Elizabethan Commonwealth
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Elizabeth on her defence against the Catholics
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The Jesuit Propaganda
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Persecution of the Catholics
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Necessity of liberty 2 The first years of James I
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The Spanish Alliance 4 Domestic Government
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Buckingham and Prince Charles 6 War policy of Charles I
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The Protectorate the Restoration and the Revolution
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Aims of the Protectorate 2 The Rights of Minorities
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Government by the army 16531688
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Government of the Restoration 5 The Divine Right of Kings 6 Character of the Restoration
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Prospects of Toleration
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CHAPTER IX
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The House of Commons and the Nation
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CHAPTER X
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The expulsion of Wilkes and American taxation
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CHAPTER XI
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INTRODUCTORY
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Picet
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Historia the de Situ Britanniae spuriousness of the work the PAGE
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CHAPTER II
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CHAPTER III
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CONTEMPORARY WRITERS The Chronicle and the History
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CHAPTER V
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CHAPTER VI
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CHAPTER VII
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CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Authorities already described Greens
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CHAPTER IX
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CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Calendar of State Papers by Mr Red
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CHAPTER XI
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INDEX
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The Cluniac Reforms 47
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Antagonism to France and the Papacy 9 The Exclusion Bill
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Pàgina 220 - AUTHORITY OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS. ON the 26th of January 1857, the Master of the Rolls submitted to the Treasury a proposal for the publication of materials for the History of this Country from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of Henry VIII.
Pàgina 238 - In this edition, the text of each manuscript is printed in columns on the same page, so that the student may see at a glance the various changes which occur in orthography, whether arising from locality or age. 24.
Pàgina 279 - WALSINGHAM,Z who was precentor of the Thomas abbey in the reign of Richard II. ; he appears to have been the inspiring genius of its scriptorium, and was also the compiler of a History of the foundation. The part of the Historia Anglicana attributed to his pen which relates to the present period, is however almost entirely a compilation from preceding writers already named. In the year 1618 there appeared the History of England from the Conquest to the reign of Edward III., by SAMUEL DANIEL,* a production...
Pàgina 82 - But the matters which are to be established for the Estate of our Lord the King and of his Heirs, and for the estate of the Realm and of the People, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliament by our Lord the King and by the Assent of the Prelates, Earls, and Barons and the commonalty of the Realm, according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Pàgina 380 - His treatment accordingly embraces (to quote his own description) ' the growth or decline of the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the democracy, of the Church and of Dissent, of the agricultural, the manufacturing, and the commercial interests ; the increasing power of Parliament and of the press ; the history of political ideas, of art, of manners, and of belief; the changes that have taken place in the social and economical condition of the people ; the influences that have modified national character...
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Pàgina 221 - Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans ; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Firth of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria.
Pàgina 365 - THE LIVES of the Right Hon. FRANCIS NORTH, BARON GUILFORD, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, under King Charles II. and King James II. ; the Hon. SIR DUDLEY NORTH, Commissioner of the Customs, and afterwards of the Treasury, to King Charles II.
Pàgina 299 - With respect to _ . the books included in the above translation, the same critic observes, that ' it is important to know that Polydore wrote this portion of his work whilst many of the persons alluded to in the events of the reigns of Edward IV. and Richard III. were alive, and who communicated with him ' (Pref. pp. xxviii. and xxxii). The work of EDWARD HALL, entitled The Union Edward of the Two Noble Families of Lancaster and Yorke, first printed in 1 542, commences with the deposition of '•...

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