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Title: A History of England Eleventh Edition Author: Charles Oman Release Date: December 23, 2014 [eBook #47753] Language: English ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A HISTORY OF ENGLAND*** E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Anna Whitehead, Christian Boissonnas, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original maps. See 47753-h.htm or 47753-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47753/47753-h/47753-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47753/47753-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Superscripted text is enclosed by curly brackets (example: 8{TH}). An asterism appears on page 8 of the advertisements. It is shown as [***]. | A HISTORY OF ENGLAND. by CHARLES OMAN, Fellow of All Souls' College, and Deputy-Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford; Author of "Warwick the Kingmaker;" "England in the Nineteenth Century;" "A History of Greece;" "The Art of War in the Middle Ages;" "The History of the Peninsular War," etc. Eleventh Edition. London: Edward Arnold. 1904. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles. PREFACE When adding one more to the numerous histories of England which have appeared of late years, the author feels that he must justify his conduct. Ten years of teaching in the Honour School of Modern History in the University of Oxford have convinced him that there may still be room for a single-volume history of moderate compass, which neither cramps the earlier annals of our island into a few pages, nor expands the last two centuries into unmanageable bulk. He trusts that his book may be useful to the higher forms of schools, and for the pass examinations of the Universities. The kindly reception which his _History of Greece_ has met both here and in America, leads him to hope that a volume constructed on the same scale and the same lines may be not less fortunate. He has to explain one or two points which may lead to criticism. In Old-English names he has followed the correct and original forms, save in some few cases, such as Edward and Alfred, where a close adherence to correctness might savour of pedantry. He wishes the maps to be taken, not as superseding the use of an atlas, but as giving boundaries, local details, and sites in which many atlases will be found wanting. Finally, he has to give his best thanks to friends who were good enough to correct certain sections of the book--especially to Sir William Anson, Warden of All Souls' College, Mr. C. H. Turner of Magdalen College, and Mr. F. Haverfield of Christ Church. But most of all does he owe gratitude to the indefatigable compiler of the Index, whose hands made a burden into a pleasure. OXFORD, _January 25, 1895_. PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION. The fact that this book has passed through nine editions in seven years seems to show that it was not altogether written in vain, and has answered the purpose for which it was written. The first edition carried the history of Great Britain to the year 1885. I have now prolonged it to the year 1902. The termination of the long reign of Queen Victoria, the end of the century, and the long-delayed pacification of South Africa, appeared to provide landmarks to which the narrative ought to be extended. I have to thank many kind correspondents for corrections and suggestions made during the last seven years. They will note that their hints have not been neglected. A special word of thanks is due to the Rev. A. Beaven of Leamington, for a very copious and useful list of _corrigenda_, of which I have made full use. OXFORD, _September 15, 1902_. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. CELTIC AND ROMAN BRITAIN 1 II. THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH 14 III. THE CONVERSION OF ENGLAND, AND THE RISE OF WESSEX. 597-836 23 IV. THE DANISH INVASIONS, AND THE GREAT KINGS OF WESSEX, 836-975 33 V. THE DAYS OF CNUT AND EDWARD THE CONFESSOR 51 VI. THE NORMAN CONQUEST, 1066-1087 67 VII. WILLIAM THE RED--HENRY I.--STEPHEN. 1087-1154 81 VIII. HENRY II. 1154-1189 97 IX. RICHARD I. AND JOHN. 1189-1216 114 X. HENRY III. 1216-1272 134 XI. EDWARD I. 1272-1307 148 XII. EDWARD II. 1307-1327 171 XIII. EDWARD III. 1327-1377 180 XIV. RICHARD II. 1377-1399 202 XV. HENRY IV. 1399-1413 213 XVI. HENRY V. 1413-1422 220 XVII. THE LOSS OF FRANCE. 1422-1453 231 XVIII. THE WARS OF THE ROSES. 1454-1471 245 XIX. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF YORK. 1471-1485 260 XX. HENRY VII. 1485-1509 272 XXI. HENRY VIII., AND THE BREACH WITH ROME. 1509-1536 282 XXII. THE ENGLISH REFORMATION. 1536-1553 296 XXIII. THE CATHOLIC REACTION. 1553-1558 314 XXIV. ELIZABETH. 1558-1603 322 XXV. JAMES I. 1603-1625 350 XXVI. THE REIGN OF CHARLES I. TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR. 1625-1642 362 XXVII. THE GREAT CIVIL WAR. 1642-1651 380 XXVIII. CROMWELL. 1651-1660 406 XXIX. CHARLES II. 1660-1685 420 XXX. JAMES II. 1685-1688 436 XXXI. ENGLAND AFTER THE REVOLUTION. 1688-1702 445 XXXII. ANNE. 1702-1714 461 XXXIII. THE RULE OF THE WHIGS. 1714-1739 482 XXXIV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIAL EMPIRE OF BRITAIN. 1739-1760 498 XXXV. GEORGE III. AND THE WHIGS--THE AMERICAN WAR. 1760-1783 532 XXXVI. THE YOUNGER PITT, AND THE RECOVERY OF ENGLISH PROSPERITY. 1782-1793 554 XXXVII. ENGLAND AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 1789-1802 574 XXXVIII. ENGLAND AND BONAPARTE. 1802-1815 598 XXXIX. REACTION AND REFORM. 1815-1832 633 XL. CHARTISM AND THE CORN LAWS. 1832-1852 652 XLI. THE DAYS OF PALMERSTON. 1852-1865 673 XLII. DEMOCRACY AND IMPERIALISM. 1865-1885 700 XLIII. THE LAST YEARS OF QUEEN VICTORIA, 1886-1901--THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. 1899-1902 718 XLIV. INDIA AND THE COLONIES. 1815-1902 734 INDEX 757 MAPS AND PLANS. PAGE THE GAELIC AND BRITISH TRIBES IN BRITAIN 3 ROMAN BRITAIN 10 ENGLAND IN THE YEAR 570 18 ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY 30 ENGLAND IN THE YEAR 900 41 FRANCE IN THE REIGN OF HENRY II. 98 THE BATTLE OF LEWES 142 THE BATTLE OF EVESHAM 145 WALES IN 1282 154 THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN 174 THE BATTLE OF CRÉCY 188 THE BATTLE OF POICTIERS 191 FRANCE AFTER THE TREATY OF BRETIGNY 194 THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT 223 THE BATTLE OF EDGEHILL 384 ENGLAND AT THE END OF 1643 388 THE BATTLE OF MARSTON MOOR 390 THE BATTLE OF NASEBY 394 THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS, 1702 466 THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM 467 SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 506 ENGLAND AND FRANCE IN AMERICA, 1756 521 THE BATTLE OF QUEBEC 527 INDIA IN THE TIME OF WARREN HASTINGS 570 SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, 1803-1814 616 EUROPE IN 1811-1812 620 THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO 629 SEBASTOPOL, 1854 686 THEATRE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR OF 1899-1902 730 INDIA, 1815-1890 736 GENEALOGICAL TABLES. PAGE THE HOUSE OF ECGBERT 66 THE HOUSE OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR 80 THE SCOTTISH SUCCESSION, 1292 160 THE FRENCH SUCCESSION, 1337 184 THE DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD III. 201 THE KIN OF CHARLES V. 286 THE SPANISH SUCCESSION, 1699 457 The HOUSE OF STUART 481 The HOUSE OF HANOVER 497 A HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. CELTIC AND ROMAN BRITAIN. In the dim dawn of history our island was a land of wood and marsh, broken here and there by patches of open ground, and pierced by occasional track-ways, which threaded the forest and circled round the edges of the impassable fen. The inhabited districts of the country were not the fertile river-bottoms where population grew thick in after-days; these were in primitive times nothing but sedgy water-meadows or matted thickets. Men dwelt rather on the thinly wooded upland, where, if the soil was poor, it was at any rate free from the tangled undergrowth that covered the valleys. It was on the chalk ridges of Kent or Wilts, or the moorland hills of Yorkshire or Cornwall, rather than on the brink of the Thames or Severn, that the British tribes clustered thick. Down by the rivers there were but small settlements of hunters and fishers perched on some knoll that rose above the brake and the rushes. The earliest explorers from the south, who described the inhabitants of Britain, seem to have noticed little difference between one wild tribe and another. But as a matter of fact the islanders were divided into two or perhaps three distinct races, who had passed westward into our island at very different dates. First had come a short dark people, who knew not the use of metals, and wielded weapons of flint and bone. They were in the lowest grade of savagery, had not even learnt to till the soil, and lived by fishing and hunting.
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