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I.RICHARD'S PREDECESSORS[13]
II.QUARRELS[37]
III.THE BLACK PRINCE[81]
IV.THE BATTLE OF POICTIERS[103]
V.CHILDHOOD OF RICHARD[140]
VI.ACCESSION TO THE THRONE[166]
VII.THE CORONATION[185]
VIII.CHIVALRY[197]
IX.WAT TYLER'S INSURRECTION[225]
X.THE END OF THE INSURRECTION[255]
XI.GOOD QUEEN ANNE[273]
XII.INCIDENTS OF THE REIGN[290]
XIII.THE LITTLE QUEEN[310]
XIV.RICHARD'S DEPOSITION AND DEATH[324]

ENGRAVINGS.

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PARLEY WITH THE INSURGENTS[Frontispiece.]
RUINS OF AN ANCIENT CASTLE[15]
MAP—SITUATION OF NORMANDY[23]
KING JOHN[29]
CAERNARVON CASTLE[51]
PORTRAIT OF EDWARD THE SECOND[55]
WARWICK CASTLE[61]
KENILWORTH CASTLE[66]
A MONK OF THOSE DAYS[69]
BERKELEY CASTLE[71]
CAVES IN THE HILL-SIDE AT NOTTINGHAM CASTLE[75]
MORTIMER'S HOLE[79]
MAP—CAMPAIGN OF CRECY[85]
VIEW OF ROUEN[87]
GENOESE ARCHER[94]
OLD ENGLISH SHIPS[105]
MAP—CAMPAIGN OF POICTIERS[110]
STORMING OF THE CASTLE OF ROMORANTIN[116]
RICHARD RECEIVING THE VISIT OF HIS UNCLE JOHN[152]
PORTRAIT OF RICHARD'S GRANDFATHER[165]
EDWARD, THE BLACK PRINCE[169]
THE BULL[177]
STORMING OF A TOWN[205]
KNIGHTS CHARGING UPON EACH OTHER[220]
VIEW OF THE TOWER OF LONDON[235]
THE SAVOY[248]
RUINS OF THE SAVOY[252]
COSTUMES[282]
FASHIONABLE HEAD-DRESSES[283]
SEAL OF RICHARD II[300]
HENRY OF BOLINGBROKE—KING HENRY IV[340]
PONTEFRACT CASTLE[342]

KING RICHARD II.

Chapter I.

Richard's Predecessors.

There have been three monarchs of the name of Richard upon the English throne.