Contents.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| PAGE | |
| The Ancient Britons, | [9] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Romans in Britain, | [16] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The Saxon Heptarchy, | [24] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Manners of the Saxons, | [33] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Danes and Alfred the Great, | [41] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| From the Death of Alfred to the Norman Conquest, | [50] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| The Norman Conquest, | [59] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Norman Period—1087 to 1154, | [68] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Henry the Second, Richard the First, and John—1154 to 1216, | [82] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| From the Death of King John to the Accession of Richard the Second—1216 to 1377, | [95] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| From the Accession of Richard the Second to the War of the Roses—1377 to 1422, | [110] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| The Wars of the Roses—1422 to 1461, | [119] |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| From the Battle of Bosworth, to Queen Elizabeth—1461 to 1558, | [128] |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| Queen Elizabeth—1558 to 1603, | [140] |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| The Stuarts. From the Union to the Revolution—1603 to 1689, | [150] |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| The Revolution—1689 to 1714, | [168] |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| House of Hanover—1714 to 1830, | [175] |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| From the Death of George the Third, 1830, to the Present Time, | [190] |
CHAPTER I.
THE ANCIENT BRITONS.
ANCIENT BRITONS.
1. Would you not like to read about your own country, and to know what sort of people lived in it a long while ago, and whether they were any thing like us? Indeed, they were not; neither was England, in ancient times, such as it is now.