FREDERICK YORK POWELL
Regius Professor of Modern History
at the University of Oxford
1894–1904
“I loved him in life and I love him
none the less in death: for what
I loved in him is not dead.”
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| Preface | [xi] | |
| I. | Archbishop Anselm and Norman Autocracy, 1093–1130 | [3] |
| II. | Thomas of Canterbury, the Defender of the Poor, 1162–1170 | [33] |
| III. | William FitzOsbert, the First English Agitator, 1188–1189 | [69] |
| IV. | Stephen Langton and the Great Charter, 1207–1215 | [81] |
| V. | Bishop Grosseteste, the Reformer, 1235–1253 | [99] |
| VI. | Simon of Montfort and the English Parliament, 1258–1265 | [117] |
| VII. | Wat Tyler and the Peasant Revolt, 1381 | [141] |
| VIII. | Jack Cade, the Captain of Kent, 1450 | [173] |
| IX. | Sir Thomas More and Freedom of Conscience, 1529–1535 | [193] |
| X. | Robert Ket and the Norfolk Rising, 1549 | [217] |
| XI. | Eliot, Hampden, and Pym and the Supremacy of the Commons, 1626–1643 | [245] |
| XII. | John Lilburne and the Levellers, 1647–1653 | [277] |
| XIII. | Winstanley the Digger, 1649–1650 | [293] |
| XIV. | Major Cartwright, the Father of Reform, 1776–1820 | [307] |
| XV. | Ernest Jones and Chartism, 1838–1868 | [319] |
| Conclusion | [335] | |
| Index | [339] | |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| JOHN HAMPDEN From the Engraving by Jacob Houbraken | [Frontispiece] |
| facing p. | |
| ARCHBISHOP ANSELM From an Old French Engraving in the British Museum | [3] |
| THOMAS À BECKET From an Engraving after Van Eyck | [33] |
| KING RICHARD II. From the Panel Painting in the Sanctuary in Westminster Abbey | [141] |
| SIR THOMAS MORE From the Drawing by Hans Holbein | [193] |
| SIR JOHN ELIOT From a Steel Engraving by William Holl | [245] |
| JOHN PYM From the Engraving by Jacob Houbraken | [257] |
| MAJOR CARTWRIGHT From a Contemporary Drawing | [307] |