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All misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example: free-men, freemen; burthen; intrusted; topick; negociations; nugatory.
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This series of English History Source Books is intended for use with any ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has conclusively shown that such apparatus is a valuable—nay, an indispensable—adjunct to the history lesson. It is capable of two main uses: either by way of lively illustration at the close of a lesson, or by way of inference-drawing, before the textbook is read, at the beginning of the lesson. The kind of problems and exercises that may be based on the documents are legion, and are admirably illustrated in a History of England for Schools, Part I., by Keatinge and Frazer, pp. 377-381. However, we have no wish to prescribe for the teacher the manner in which he shall exercise his craft, but simply to provide him and his pupils with materials hitherto not readily accessible for school purposes. The very moderate price of the books in this series should bring them within the reach of every secondary school. Source books enable the pupil to take a more active part than hitherto in the history lesson. Here is the apparatus, the raw material: its use we leave to teacher and taught.
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[TABLE OF CONTENTS]
| PAGE | |||
| 1816. | The Debt | Cobbett's "Rural Rides" | [1] |
| The Barbary Pirates | Lord Sidmouth's "Life and Correspondence" | [2] | |
| The Holy Alliance | "Annual Register" | [2] | |
| The State of Ireland | Doubleday's "Life of Sir Robert Peel" | [5] | |
| 1818. | The State of England | Lord Sidmouth's "Life and Correspondence" | [8] |
| Parish Registers | "The London Medical Repository" | [11] | |
| 1819. | Peterloo | Lord Sidmouth's "Life and Correspondence" | [14] |
| The State of England | Shelley's "Poems" | [20] | |
| The Cato Street Conspiracy | "Annual Register" | [20] | |
| 1820. | The Death of George III. | Lord Colchester's "Diary and Correspondence" | [24] |
| The King's Speech | "Annual Register" | [25] | |
| The Character of John Bull | Washington Irving's "Sketch Book" | [27] | |
| 1821. | The Death of Napoleon | "The Gentleman's Magazine" | [29] |
| Napoleon | Shelley's "Poems" | [31] | |
| Napoleon and England | Lord Tennyson's "Early Sonnets" | [32] | |
| 1823. | The Monroe Doctrine | "Annual Register" | [33] |
| Slavery | Stapleton's "Life of Canning" | [34] | |
| The State of Ireland | Lord Colchester's "Diary and Correspondence" | [35] | |
| Transportation | "The Edinburgh Review" | [38] | |
| 1824. | The Duke of Wellington and His Sons | Gleig's "Life of the Duke of Wellington" | [39] |
| 1825. | Free Trade | Cobbett's "Rural Rides" | [41] |
| Financial Crisis | Doubleday's "Life of Sir Robert Peel" | [44] | |
| 1826. | The French Occupation of Spain | Martineau's "History of the Peace" | [47] |
| The Removal of Trade Restrictions | Stapleton's "Life of Canning" | [49] | |
| Portuguese Appeal for Aid against Spain | Stapleton's "Life of Canning" | [53] | |
| Mr. Canning and the Portuguese Appeal | Stapleton's "Life of Canning" | [54] | |
| 1827. | Life of Convict-Servants in Australia | "The London Magazine" | [56] |
| Interview with George IV. | Lord Colchester's "Diary and Correspondence" | [58] | |
| The Treaty of London | Stapleton's "Life of Canning" | [60] | |
| The Battle of Navarino | "The Gentleman's Magazine" | [62] | |
| 1828. | The Roman Catholic Association | Stanhope and Cardwell's "Memoirs of Peel" | [66] |
| Irish Unrest | Stanhope and Cardwell's "Memoirs of Peel" | [69] | |
| 1829. | Catholic Emancipation | "Annual Register" | [70] |
| 1830. | Duke of Wellington's Supposed Designs on the Crown | Gleig's "Life of the Duke of Wellington" | [72] |
| Heavy Taxation | Cobbett's "Rural Rides" | [73] | |
| Railway Carriages | "The Gentleman's Magazine" | [75] | |
| Death of Huskisson | "The Gentleman's Magazine" | [77] | |
| The Use of Close Boroughs | Gleig's "Life of the Duke of Wellington" | [79] | |
| 1831. | Lord John Russell's Speech on Reform Bill | Molesworth's "History of the Reform Bill" | [82] |
| The Passing of the Reform Bill | Macaulay's "Life and Letters" | [87] | |
| Prorogation of Anti-Reform Parliament | Molesworth's "History of the Reform Bill" | [89] | |
| Parliamentary Reform | Lord Macaulay's "Speeches" | [94] | |
| 1832. | Battle Song | Ebenezer Elliott's "Poems" | [95] |
| 1833. | Repeal of the Union | Lord Macaulay's "Speeches" | [96] |
| Jewish Disabilities | Lord Macaulay's "Speeches" | [98] | |
| 1834. | Strikes | Duke of Buckingham's "Memoirs" | [101] |
| 1835. | O'Connell and the House of Lords | Martineau's "History of the Peace" | [102] |
| 1836. | The Factory System | Fielden's "Curse of the Factory System" | [103] |
| The Employment of Children | Fielden's "Curse of the Factory System" | [107] | |
| The Police | Mullin's "Magistracy of England" | [110] | |
| The King and the Canadian Question | "The Edinburgh Review" | [113] | |
| Statistics of Great Britain and Ireland | Porter's "Party Tables" | [116] | |