CHAPTER IV.

Henry III.—Roger Bacon—First True Parliament—Edward I.—Conquest of
Wales—of Scotland—Edward II.—Edward III.—Battle of Crecy—Richard
II.—Wickliffe

CHAPTER V

House of Lancaster—Henry IV.—Henry V.—Agincourt—Battle of Orleans—
Wars of the Roses—House of York—Edward IV.—Richard III.—Henry VII.
—Printing Introduced

CHAPTER VI

Henry VIII—Wolsey—Reformation—Edward VI—Mary

CHAPTER VII

Elizabeth—East India Company Chartered—Colonization of Virginia—
Flodden Field—Birth of Mary Stuart—Mary Stuart's Death—Spanish
Armada—Francis Bacon

CHAPTER VIII

James I—First New England Colony—Gunpowder Plot—Translation of
Bible—Charles I—Archbishop Laud—John Hampden—Petition of Right—
Massachusetts Chartered—Earl Strafford—Star Chamber

CHAPTER IX

Long Parliament—Death of Strafford and Laud—Oliver Cromwell—Death of Charles I.—Long Parliament Dispersed—Charles II.