Volume One.

Murder of Thomas A'Becket.[Frontispiece]
Caractacus and his Wife before Claudius.[16]
Augustine preaching to Ethelbert.[32]
Alfred in the Herdsman's Hut.[44]
Canute by the Seashore.[72]
William the Conqueror reviewing his Troops.[98]
Robert's Encounter with his Father.[110]
Azelin forbidding the burial of William the Conqueror.[116]
Death of William Rufus.[122]
Escape of the Empress Maud from Oxford.[144]
Richard Removing the Archduke's Banner.[188]
Richard's farewell to the Holy Land.[192]
King John's Anger After Signing Magna Charta.[214]
King Henry and his Barons.[228]
That is the Title by which I Hold my Lands.[242]
Bruce warned by Gilbert de Clare.[262]
Robert Bruce Regretting His Battle-Axe.[274]
The Battle of Sluys.[294]
Van Arteveldt at his Door/[298]
Queen Philippa on her knees before the King. [314]
King John Taken Prisoner by the Black Prince.[320]
The Black Prince Serving the French King.[322]
Death of Wat Tyler.[346]

Table Of Contents.

Chapter I.Ancient Populations of Britain
Roman Dominion (55 B.C. to 411 A.D.)		[9]
Chapter II.The Rule of the Saxons to the Invasion of the Danes (449 -832[24]
Chapter III. The Danes.
Alfred the Great (836-901)		[37]
Chapter IV. The Saxon and Danish Kings.
The Conquest of England by the Normans (901-1066)		[59]
Chapter V.Establishment of the Normans in England (1066-1087)[103]
Chapter VI. The Norman Kings. (1087-1154)
William Rufus
Henry I.
Stephen		[117]
Chapter VII.Henry II. (1154-1189)[146]
Chapter VIII. Richard Cœur-de-Lion.
John Lackland.
Magna Charta (1189-1216)		[182]
Chapter IX.King and Barons.
Henry III. (1216-1272)		[218]
Chapter X.Malleus Scotorum
Edward I. (1272-1307.)
Edward II. (1307-1327)		[238]
Chapter XI.The Hundred Years' War.
Edward III. (1327-1377)		[285]
Chapter XII.Bolingbroke.
Richard II. (1377-1308). Henry IV. (1398-1413)		[335]