The World’s Story A History of the World in Story, Song and Art Volume 15 England Part II Edited by Eva March Tappan
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CONTENTS ENGLAND I. FROM WILLIAM THE RED
TO
JOHN LACKLAND
Charles Dickens
THE REIGN OF THE RED KING
From"A Child's History of England."
THE WHITE SHIP • • • • • • Dante Gabriel THE ESCAPE OF MAUDE FROM THE CASTLE AT OXFORD
Rossetti
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A. D. Crake
27
From the A 11glo-Saxo11 Chronicle
37
From"Brian Fitz-Count."
THE CASTLE-BUU.DERS OF THE REIGN OF STEPHEN TuE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE KING AND THE ARCHBISHOP
From"Beacon Lights of History." THE STORY OF JOHN LACKLAND
From"England's Story."
Jo/m Lord
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IL STORIES OF THE AGE OF RICHARD THE LION-HEARTED
Sir Walier Scott 59 Sir JV alter Scott 76 Sir Walter Scott 84
THE TOUR.'<AM:ENT OF ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCHE THE ARCHERY CoJliTEST
A TRIAL BY SINGLE COMBAT From "I van hoe."
U11k1iow,i
96
William Shakespeare
103
Abby Sage Richardso,�
109
ROBIN Hoon AND LITTLE JonN
From "English and Scottish Ballads."
PRINCE ARTHUR AND THE KEEPER HUBERT
From "King John."
FRIAR BACON'S BRAZEN HEAD •
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From "Stories from Old English Poetry."
III.
THE LATER PLANTAGENET KINGS .
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G. P.R. James
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IN THE DAYS OF EDWARD III •
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THE BATTLE OF EVESHAM
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From "Forest Days, a Romance of Old Times."
From "England's Story." THE FIRST EXPEDITIO'.ll OF EDWARD III AGAINST THE SCOTS
From "Froissart's Chronicles."
Sir John Froissart
152
CONTENTS Augustin Thierry
167
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THE REVOLT OF THE PEASANTS
From "History of the Conquest of England by the Normans."
THE HUNTING OF THE CHEVIOT
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MYSTERY PLAYS
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COUNTRY LIFE IN THE DAYS OF THE PLANTAGENETS
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From "When Knights were Bold."
196
IV. LANCASTER AND YORK .
Sir John Froissart
211
Two SCENES IN THE LIFE OF HENRY V •
William Shakespeare
216
TilE CORONATION OF HENRY IV
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From "Froissart's Chronicles."
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From "King Henry IV."
Michael Drayton 228 Agnes Strickland 233
THE BALLAD OF AGINC0URT QUEEN MARGARET AND THE ROBBER
From "Lives of the Queens of England."
WHEN THE KING RETURNED FROM HOLLAND
From "The Last of the Barons."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
V. THE TUDOR KINGS
VII Charles Dickens 253 ELIZABETH OF YORK, Wll'E OF HENRY VII Agnes Strickland 2 61
'fm: IMPOSTOR WHO CLAIMED THE CROWN OF HENRY
From "A Child's History of England."
THE FUNERAL OF
From "Lives of the Queens of England." Gustave Afasson 265 ov Gow From "Francis I and the Sixteenth Century."
THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH
THE FALL OF CARDINAL WOLSEY
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From "King Henry VIII." . . . THl!: TRIAL OF SIR THOMAS MORE
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William Shakespeare
273
Anne Manning Rathbone 278
From "The Household of Sir Thomas More."
THE APPEAL OF ANNE
From "Henry
VIII
ASKE'!ouisa Mi,hlbach (Klara M. .Mundt) 286
and bis Court."
VI. FROM EDWARD VI
TO THE DEATH OF MARY
THE EXECUTION OF THE "TWELVE-DAYS' QUEEN"
From "The Tower of London."
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William Harrison Ainsworth 299
CONTENTS THE COMING OF PHILIP II .
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William II. Prescott
310
James Anthony Froude
319
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From "History of the Reign of Philip the Second."
ENGLAND'S RECONCILIATION WITH ROME
From "The Reign of Mary Tudor."
VII. IN THE
DAYS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
THE GREAT QUEEN AS A LITTLE CHILD
From "The Life of Queen Elizabeth."
SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND HIS CLOAK \VHEN ELIZABETH CAME TO KENILWORTH
Agnes Strickland
327
Sir Walter Scott344 Sir Walter Scott 361
From "Kenilworth."
Thomas Babington Macaulay THE FIGHT WITH THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA • • • David Hume From "The History of England." THE REVENGE: A BALLAD OF THE FLEET Alfred, Lord Tennyson THE ARMADA • · •
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