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PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON;
LATE FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

REVISED, AND WITH ADDITIONS.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET.

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DEDICATED TO

HENRY PEARSON, ESQ., M.A.,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

BY HIS FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

IN 1848 I prepared and published a small pamphlet, called "The Text Book of the Constitution," in which were arranged the texts of Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and the Bill of Rights, with historical comments, and with remarks on the People's Charter and other political topics of that year. Independently of its politics, that pamphlet has been found useful as an historical compilation; but the extent to which its latter pages were occupied with political discussions, made me unwilling either to employ it myself or to see it employed by others in education. I do not wish to disavow any of the opinions which I expressed in it, but a teacher of History has no right to avail himself of the position in which he stands towards his pupils, for the purpose of training up broods of young Tories, Whigs, or Radicals, according to his own party predilections. I therefore intended to prepare an edition

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