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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I. | |
| PAGE. | |
| Introduction | 13 |
| Britain under the Romans | 15 |
| Britain under the Saxons | 16 |
| Conversion of the Saxons to Christianity | 17 |
| Danish Invasions; The Normans | 20 |
| The Norman Conquest | 23 |
| Separation of England and Normandy | 25 |
| Amalgamation of Races | 26 |
| English Conquests on the Continent | 28 |
| Wars of the Roses | 30 |
| Extinction of Villenage | 31 |
| Beneficial Operation of the Roman Catholic Religion | 32 |
| The early English Polity often misrepresented, and why? | 34 |
| Nature of the Limited Monarchies of the Middle Ages | 36 |
| Prerogatives of the early English Kings | 37 |
| Limitations of the Prerogative | 38 |
| Resistance an ordinary Check on Tyranny in the Middle Ages | 42 |
| Peculiar Character of the English Aristocracy | 45 |
| Government of the Tudors | 46 |
| Limited Monarchies of the Middle Ages generally turned into Absolute Monarchies | 49 |
| The English Monarchy a singular Exception | 50 |
| The Reformation and its Effects | 51 |
| Origin of the Church of England | 55 |
| Her peculiar Character | 57 |
| Relation in which she stood to the Crown | 59 |
| The Puritans | 63 |
| Their Republican Spirit | 65 |
| No systematic parliamentary Opposition offered to the Government of Elizabeth | 66 |
