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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 |