LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Dandy of the Time of Charles I.[IX]
Eltham Palace, from the North-east[1]
The Duke of York Challenged to Mortal Combat[5]
View in Lübeck: The Church of St. Ægidius[9]
Clifford's Tower: York Castle[12]
Rutland beseeching Clifford to spare his Life[13]
The Quarrel in the Temple Gardens[17]
Edward IV.[20]
Dunstanburgh Castle[21]
Great Seal of Edward IV.[25]
Gold Rose Noble of Edward IV.[28]
Preaching at St. Paul's Cross[29]
Battle of Barnet: Death of the King-maker[33]
Burial of King Henry[37]
Louis XI. and the Herald[41]
St. Andrews, from the Pier[45]
Great Seal of Edward V.[48]
Edward V.[49]
The Tower of London: Bloody and Wakefield Towers[52]
Great Seal of Richard III.[53]
The Princes in the Tower[56]
Richard III.[57]
Richard III. at the Battle of Bosworth[61]
Facsimile of Caxton's Printing in the "Dictes and Sayings of Philosophers," (1477)[65]
Earl Rivers Presenting Caxton to Edward IV.[65]
The Quadrangle, Eton College[68]
Interior of King's College Chapel, Cambridge[69]
Street in London in the Fifteenth Century[73]
Cannon of the End of the Fifteenth Century[75]
Great Seal of Henry VII.[77]
Henry VII.[80]
The Last Stand of Schwarz and his Germans[81]
Penny of Henry VII. Angel of Henry VII. Noble of Henry VII.
Sovereign of Henry VII.		[85]
Stirling Castle[89]
St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall[92]
Lady Catherine Gordon before Henry VII.[93]
The Byward Tower, Tower of London[97]
King Henry's Departure from Henningham Castle[100]
Henry VII.'s Chapel, Westminster Abbey[101]
Great Seal of Henry VIII.[105]
Meeting of Henry and the Emperor Maximilian[108]
Henry and the captured French Officers[109]
Edinburgh after Flodden[113]
Archbishop Warham[117]
Hampton Court Palace[121]
Henry VIII.[125]
Great Ship of Henry VIII.[129]
Stirling, from the Abbey Craig[132]
Cardinal Wolsey[133]
Silver Groat of Henry VIII. Gold Crown of Henry VIII.
George Noble of Henry VIII.		[136]
Pound Sovereign of Henry VIII. Double Sovereign of Henry VIII.[137]
Surrender of Francis on the Battle-field of Pavia[141]
Martin Luther[145]
The Trial of Queen Catherine[149]
The Dismissal of Wolsey[153]
The Tower of London: Sketch in the Gardens[157]
Sir Thomas More[160]
The Parting of Sir Thomas More and his Daughter[161]
Anne Boleyn[165]
Anne Boleyn's Last Farewell of her Ladies[168]
St. Peter's Chapel, Tower Green, London, where Anne Boleyn was Buried[169]
The Pilgrimage of Grace[173]
Gateway of Kirkham Priory[176]
Beauchamp Tower, and Place of Execution within the Tower of London[177]
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex[181]
Catherine Howard being conveyed to the Tower[185]
Capture of the Fitzgeralds[188]
The First Levee of Mary Queen of Scots[192]
View in St. Andrews: North Street[193]
Francis I.[197]
The Assassination of Cardinal Beaton[201]
Edward VI.[205]
Great Seal of Edward VI.[209]
The Royal Herald in Ket's Camp[212]
Old Somerset House, London[213]
The Duke of Somerset[217]
Silver Crown of Edward VI.[219]
Sixpence of Edward VI. Shilling of Edward VI. Pound
Sovereign of Edward VI. Triple Sovereign of Edward VI.		[220]
Queen Mary and the State Prisoners in the Tower[221]
Great Seal of Philip and Mary[224]
View from the Constable's Garden, Tower of London[225]
Old London Bridge, with Nonsuch Palace[229]
Lady Jane Grey on her way to the Scaffold[233]
Archbishop Cranmer[237]
The Place of Martyrdom, Old Smithfield[240]
Mary I.[241]
The Hôtel de Ville and Old Lighthouse, Calais[244]
Shilling of Philip and Mary. Real of Mary I.[245]
Elizabeth's Public Entry into London[249]
Elizabeth[252]
Autograph of Elizabeth[253]
Mar's Work, Stirling[257]
Great Seal of Elizabeth[260]
Mary, Queen of Scots[261]
The Murder of Rizzio[265]
Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh[269]
Mary Signing the Deed of Abdication in Lochleven Castle[273]
Lord Burleigh[276]
Farthing of Elizabeth. Halfpenny of Elizabeth. Penny of Elizabeth. Twopence
of Elizabeth. Half-crown of Elizabeth. Half-sovereign of Elizabeth		[277]
The Duke of Norfolk's Interview with Elizabeth[281]
The Regent Murray[284]
High Street, Linlithgow[285]
Kenilworth Castle[289]
The House of the English Ambassador during the Massacre of St. Bartholomew[293]
Murder of the Earl of Desmond[297]
The Earl of Arran accusing Morton of the Murder of Darnley[300]
Dumbarton Rock, with view of Castle[301]
The Earl of Leicester[305]
Trial of Mary Queen of Scots in Fotheringay Castle[309]
Mary Queen of Scots receiving Intimation of her Doom[312]
Sir Francis Drake[317]
The Hoe, Plymouth[320]
The Armada in Sight[321]
Philip II.[325]
Beauchamp Tower, Warders' Houses, and Yeoman Gaolers' Lodgings:
Tower of London		[329]
The Quarrel between Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex[332]
The Earl of Essex[333]
Lord Grey and his Followers Attacking the Earl of Southampton[337]
Elizabeth's Promenade on Richmond Green[340]
Richmond Palace[341]
Town and Country Folk of Elizabeth's Reign[345]
State Trial in Westminster Hall in the Time of Elizabeth[349]
John Knox[353]
Reduced Facsimile of the Title-page of the Great Bible,
also called Cromwell's Bible		[357]
Christ's Hospital, London[361]
Latimer Preaching before Edward VI.[364]
Roger Ascham's Visit to Lady Jane Grey[365]
Edmund Spenser[369]
The House at Stratford-on-Avon in which Shakespeare was Born[373]
Shakespeare[376]
The Acting of one of Shakespeare's Plays in the Time of Queen Elizabeth[377]
Queen Elizabeth's Cither and Music-book[379]
Holland House, Kensington[380]
The Great Court of Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire[381]
Entrance from the Courtyard of Burleigh House, Stamford[383]
Elizabeth's Drawing-room, Penshurst Place[384]
Soldiers of the Tudor Period[385]
The Wedding of Jack of Newbury: The Bride's Procession[389]
Ships of Elizabeth's Time[393]
The First Royal Exchange, London (Founded by Sir Thomas Gresham)[396]
Sir Thomas Gresham[397]
The Frolic of My Lord of Misrule[401]
Punishment of the Stocks[403]
James I.[405]
St. Thomas's Tower and Traitor's Gate, Tower of London[409]
Sir Walter Raleigh[412]
The Dissenting Divines Presenting their Petition to James[413]
The Old Palace, Westminster, in the time of Charles I.[417]
Great Seal of James I.[420]
Guy Fawkes's Cellar under Parliament House[421]
Lord Monteagle and the Warning Letter about the Gunpowder Plot[425]
Arrest of Guy Fawkes[428]
Pound Sovereign of James I. Unit or Laurel of James I. (Gold).
Spur Rial of James I. (Gold). Thistle Crown of James I. (Gold)		[432]
Sir Robert Cecil, afterwards Earl of Salisbury[433]
Shilling of James I. Crown of James I.[436]
James and his Courtiers setting out for the Hunt[437]
The Star Chamber[441]
Flight of the Lady Arabella Stuart[444]
Notre Dame, Caudebec[445]
Sir Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans)[449]
The Banqueting House, Whitehall[452]
Greenwich Palace in the time of James I.[456]
Sir Edward Coke[457]
Andrew Melville before the Scottish Privy Council[461]
Keeping Sunday, according to King James's Book of Sports[465]
Parliament House, Dublin, in the Seventeenth Century[469]
Sir Francis Bacon waiting an Audience of Buckingham[472]
Arrest of Sir Walter Raleigh[476]
Sir Walter Raleigh before the Judges[477]
The Franzensring, Vienna[481]
Interview between Bacon and the Deputation from the Lords[484]
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham[485]
The Fleet Prison[489]
Public Reception of Prince Charles in Madrid[493]
Prince Charles's Farewell of the Infanta[497]
The Royal Palace, Madrid[500]
The Ladies of the French Court and the Portrait of Prince Charles[504]
Henrietta Maria[505]
Great Seal of Charles I.[509]
Charles welcoming his Queen to England[512]
Charles I.[513]
Reception of Viscount Wimbledon at Plymouth[516]
York House (The Duke of Buckingham's Mansion)[517]
Trial of Buckingham[521]
Interior of the Banqueting House, Whitehall[525]
Sir John Eliot[529]
Assassination of the Duke of Buckingham[533]
Tyburn in the time of Charles I.[537]
Three Pound Piece of Charles I. Broad of Charles I. Briot Shilling of Charles I.[540]
John Selden[541]
Scene in the House of Commons: The Speaker Coerced[545]
Interior of Old St. Paul's[549]
Dunblane[552]
Archbishop Laud[553]
John Lilburne on the Pillory[557]
The Birmingham Tower, Dublin Castle[561]
Sir Thomas Wentworth (Earl of Strafford)[564]
The People Signing the Covenant in St. Giles's Church, Edinburgh[568]
St. Giles's Church, Edinburgh, in the 17th Century[569]
The Old College, Glasgow, in the 17th Century[573]
Charles and the Scottish Commissioners[577]
John Hampden[581]
Guildhall, London, in the time of Charles I.[585]
Advance of the Covenanters across the Border into England[589]
John Pym[592]
Arrest of the Earl of Strafford[593]
Westminster Hall and Palace Yard in the time of Charles I.[597]
Charles Signing the Commission of Assent to Strafford's Attainder[601]
The Old Parliament House, Edinburgh[604]
The Marquis of Montrose[605]

LIST OF PLATES

Departure of English and French from Genoa in 1390 to Chastise the
Barbary Corsairs. (From the Froissart MS. in the British Museum)Frontispiece
The Crown of England being Offered to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, at
Baynard's Castle, in 1483. (By Sigismund Goetze)To face p. [50]
Caxton Showing the First Specimen of his Printing to King Edward IV.,
at the Almonry, Westminster. (By Daniel Maclise, R.A.)"[64]
The Grand Assault upon the Town of Africa by the English and French.
(From the Froissart MS. in the British Museum)"[72]
Froissart Presenting his Book of Love Poems to Richard II., in 1395.—The
Landing of the Lady de Coucy at Boulogne. (From the Froissart MS. in
the British Museum)"[74]
Cardinal Wolsey Going in Procession to Westminster Hall. (By Sir John
Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S.)"[118]
Cardinal Wolsey at Leicester Abbey. (By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S.)"[154]
Sweethearts and Wives. (Moss-troopers Returning from a Foray.)
(By S. E. Waller)"[190]
Lady Jane Grey's Reluctance to Accept the Crown of England.
(By C. R. Leslie, R.A.)"[222]
Cranmer at Traitors' Gate. (By F. Goodall, R.A.)"[226]
Queen Elizabeth. (By F. Zucchero)"[246]
The Preaching of John Knox before the Lords of the Congregation,
10th June, 1559. (By Sir David Wilkie, R.A.)"[256]
The Invincible Armada. (By Albert Goodwin, R.W.S.)"[312]
"The Surrender": An Incident of the Spanish Armada. (By Seymour
Lucas, R.A.)"[322]
A Story of the Spanish Main. (By Seymour Lucas, R.A.)"[338]
William Shakespeare. (From the Painting known as the Chandos Portrait, and
attributed to Richard Burbage, in the National Portrait Gallery)"[374]
Map of the World at the End of the Sixteenth Century, showing the
Discoveries of British and other Explorers"[394]
The Departure of the "Mayflower." (By A. W. Bayes)"[474]
Illuminated Page, with Bordering. (From the Froissart MS. in the British Museum)"[512]
Visit of Charles I. to the Guildhall. (By Solomon J. Solomon, R.A.)"[582]
Strafford Going to Execution. (By Paul Delaroche)"[604]

From the Froissart MS. in the British Museum. Reproduced by André & Sleigh, Ld., Buskey, Herts.

DEPARTURE OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH FROM GENOA IN 1390 TO CHASTISE THE BARBARY CORSAIRS.