AN ADVANCED READING BOOK FOR ADULT AND OTHER SCHOOLS. LESSONS IN ENGLISH HISTORY. BY C. W. JONES, M.A. CANTAB. CURATE OF PAKENHAM. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS. THE Long as loving reverence Youth's fresh current warming H. LUSHINGTON. PREFACE. THE favourable reception of my Secular Early Lesson Book for Adults, has encouraged me to prepare this more advanced one, in which most lessons are accompanied by an extract of an interesting character, from history or fiction, designed to illustrate the event or period treated of; and the whole is intended to be, not a History of England, but a series of samples from it, some events being as "conspicuous by their absence," as others by their presence. The immediate wants of my own Night School, in which I have long worked with some success, have led me to prepare this work so considerably in advance of the Early Lesson Book, but it is my intention shortly to fill up the interval by one on the same plan as that. In conclusion, I beg leave to return my best thanks for permission to make those extracts from copyright works which appear in this book. C. W. J. PAKENHAM VICARAGE, November, 1859. Recently Published, Fourth Edition, price 6d. SECULAR EARLY LESSON BOOK FOR ADULT AND OTHER SCHOOLS. Shortly, A SECOND PART OF THE ABOVE. CONTENTS. PAGE II.-A.D. 84.] The Romans Masters in Britain.-The Martyrdom of St. Alban, A.D. 303 . III. [450.] The Saxon Settlements. - Vortigern and IV.-[650.] Christianity in Saxon England. The Me- ∞ VI.-[1066.] The Norman Conquest.-Visit of Duke VII. [1215.] Magna Carta.-A Tournament VIII.-[1314.] Relations of England and Scotland.-Battle X.-[1429.] The same-Joan of Arc.-Speech of Henry V. before the Battle of Agincourt XI.-[1558.] Accession of Queen Elizabeth.-The Spanish XII.-[1688.] The Revolution.-State of the Coinage. XIII.-[1757.] England and India-The Battle of Plassey. AN ADVANCED READING-BOOK FOR ADULTS. LESSON I. THE ROMAN INVASION. IN the latter part of the summer of the year fifty-five before the birth of Christ, an unusual stir might have been observed in the county of Kent. For some months before, reports had been flying about that Cæsar, who had conquered Gaul (as France was then called), was intending to make an attack on this country. The Britons knew pretty well what he had been doing in Gaul, as they had been in the habit of supplying the wants which his wars had caused there. And now it was reported that he was coming over to Britain. Indeed, the matter seemed B |