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The Britons at the period of the Roman Invasion, B.C. 55.

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King Richard the First. Men-at-Arms of the Twelfth Century.

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Costume and Architecture of the Elizabethan Era, A.D. 1580.

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SCHOOL HISTORY OF ENGLAND

INCLUDING

A COPIOUS CHRONOLOGY,

TABLES OF CONTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS,
AND QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION.

BY

G. R. GLEIG, M.A.

PREBENDARY OF ST. PAUL'S, LATE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF MILITARY
SCHOOLS, AND CHAPLAIN GENERAL TO THE FORCES.

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Bungay:

CLAY AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS.

PREFACE.

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THE "School History of England was in its origin an abridgment of "The Family History of England," written many years ago, at the request of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge conveyed to me through the Committee of General Literature and Education.

The plan on which the original work was framed has never been departed from. Every successive Edition of the smaller work has aimed at little more than carrying on in a spirit of perfect impartiality the record of events as they occurred, and affording at the same time fresh facilities to the student of connecting effects with their causes, and laying them up side by side in the store-house of his memory. Another feature in the arrangement of the book may be noticed. There is prefixed to each section or chapter a copious list of such incidents as may have occurred in the space of time covered by it, of which some were scarcely of importance enough to be noticed in the text, though in these days of competitive examinations it may be of advantage that a record of all should be preserved.

It will be seen that in the present issue attention has been paid to the question of Chronology, so that the reader by casting his eye to the top of the page will find the dates. of the event about which he is reading stated with as much

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