Half hours of English history, from James the first to queen Victoria, selected and ed. by mrs. Valentine

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Contents

Settlement of Virginia WILBERFORCE
36
Court Town and Country in James I s Reign C KNIGHTS HIST OF
39
The Masque of Blackness BEN JONSON
43
Superstitions of the PeriodWitchcraft SIR WALTER SCOTT
48
Reign of Charles I EDITOR
53
Death of Buckingham and An Historical Ghost Story CLARENDON
59
Trial of Lord Strafford HUME
66
Part II HUME
71
The Last Farewell STRAFFORD
75
Setting up the Standard ELIOT WARBURTON
76
The Civil War LUCY HUTCHINSON
81
Conduct of People and Parliament and First Victory of CLARENDON Rupert
86
Death of Hampden MACAULAY
90
Severe Rule of the Long Parliament and Sufferings of the SOUTHEY Clergy
93
Death of Archbishop Laud WALLACE
95
Sonnet WORDSWORTH
96
Battle of Naseby CLARENDON
97
Montroses Efforts for the King SIR WALTER SCOTT
100
Betrayal of Charles by the Scotch Army SIR WALTER SCOTT
105
An Account of the Taking of Pontefract Castle CLARENDON
107
Cromwell and the King at Hampton Court GUIZOT
114
Trial of King Charles GUIZOT
119
Execution of Charles I GUIZOT
126
King Cavaliers and Roundheads E WARBURTON
131
On the Death and Character of Charles I HALLAM
134
The Masque P B SHELLEY
139
Troubles of Charles I WORDSWORTH
145
BOOK VI
146
Birth and Training of Oliver Cromwell HUME
151
Fate of Montrose SIR WALTER SCOTT
153
The Battle of Dunbar CROMWELL
157
Escape of Charles II from Worcester Field CHARLES II
159
Cause of the Dutch Wars CLARENDON
171
Blakes Great Victory CLARENDON
174
Cromwell Dissolves the Long Parliament CARLYLE
177
The Little Parliament LINGARD
180
Establishment of the Protectorate LINGARD
184
Cromwell in Power MRS HUTCHINSON
188
Death of Cromwell GUIZOT
191
Character of Cromwell MILTON
195
Cromwell and Napoleon Compared HALLAM
199
The Commonwealth under Richard Cromwell EDITOR
201
Richard Cromwell and General Monk GUIZOT
203
BOOK VII
204
Part II EDITOR
207
Entrance of Charles II into London EVELYN
212
Sonnet WORDSWORTH 215 On the Restoration HALLAM
215
The Great Plague DE
221
Part II DE
226
The Great Fire of London EVELYN
230
The Dutch in the Medway PEPYS
234
The Popish Plot HISTORICAL PARALLELS 245 Part II HISTORICAL PARALLELS
241
The Rye House Plot MACKINTOSH
249
Persecution of Covenanters and Jerviswood Plot SIR WALTER SCOTT
256
James II s want of Judgment HALLAM
293
Trial of the Bishops SOUTHEY
298
Acquittal of the Bishops WORDSWORTH
302
Landing of William III BURNET
303
Part II BURNET
305
Flight of James II BURNET
310
Return of James BURNET
312
Progress of England under the two last Stuart Kings HUME
316
William III and Mary II EDITOR
319
Accession of Queen Mary and King William EVELYN
324
William III WORDSWORTH 328 Scotland after the Landing of William III SIR WALTER SCOTT
328
Bonny Dundec SIR WALTER SCOTT
334
Fate of Dundee SIR WALTER SCOTT
335
Epitaph on Viscount Dundee DRYDEN 341 Coronation of William and Mary STRICKLAND
341
Siege of Londonderry SMOLLETT
345
Battle of the Boyne SMOLLETT
347
Jacobite Ballad OGILVIE 350 The Politicians of the Revolution STRICKLAND
350
The Battle of Cape La Hogue SMOLLETT
352
Ballad OldThe Battle of La Hogue ANON
354
On the Massacre of Glencoe SIR WALTER SCOTT
355
Last Days of William III STRICKLAND
357
Benefits of the Revolution in 1689 MACAULAY
361
Jacobite Ballad ANON
365
The Reign of Queen Anne EDITOR
366
The Great Storm of 1703
371
Story of Captain Green
383
Fall of the Marlboroughs
396
The Faggot
406
On the Treaty of Utrecht
416
The state of Ireland from the Restoration to George II
427
Chronological Table
435
Lord Bolingbroke
443
Jacobite Rising 1715
455
Escape of Lord Nithisdale
461
Fate of South Sea Directors
472
Plot discovered by Bishop of Rochesters
481
Reign of George II
488
Enterprise of Charles Edward
495
Battle of Prestonpans
501
Johnnie Cope
507
Escape of Charles Edward
518
Trial of the Jacobite Lords
526
Tears of Scotland
525
Punishment of other Rebels
532
Jemmy Dawson
535
British Victories in 1759
545
Battle of Camperdown ALISON
555
Beginning of George III s Reign
556
Battle of Bunkers Hill
564
Lord George Gordon Riots
570
The Glorious 1st of June
574
Battle of Trafalgar SOUTHEY
576
Mutiny in the Fleet
583
On the Death of Nelson Pitt and Fox SIR WALTER SCOTT

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Page 523 - O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die : Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
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