Chapter I: Front Matter

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The typesetting, inking and proofing of this book are exceptionally defective. Missing letters and words (in square brackets) have been inserted and spelling and punctuation errors have been corrected.

As in the first volume, the recurring theme is death and
deception. This is a list of words occurring at least 20 times
each, in order of frequency:
death (143), army (116), Tower of London (95), war, died,
battle, arms, money, power, enemies, soldiers, reign, prison,
unhappy, insurrection, condemned, vain, treaty, refuge,
possession, influence, forces, poor, arrested, prisoner,
secret, anger, suffered, blood, execution, prisoners,
insurgents, violent, victory, siege, dying, cried, treason,
surrounded, scaffold, rebels, executed, sentence, killed, die,
crime, attack, enemy, crimes, blow, sword, mercy, fight, fatal,
courage, struck, rival, retreat, knights, danger, attacked,
seized, ruin, reinforcements, pardon, defend, conspiracy,
captive, perished, defeated, beheaded, arrest, vengeance,
trial, threatened, repulsed, captured.]

[Image] Parting Of Sir Thomas More And His Daughter.

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A Popular History Of England

From the Earliest Times

_To The Reign Of Queen Victoria_

BY

M. Guizot

Author of "The Popular History of France," etc.

_Authorized Edition_

Illustrated

Vol. II

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New York
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Volume Two.

Parting of Sir Thomas Moore and his Daughter. -- Frontispiece.

The French Chivalry the Night before the Battle of Agincourt. -- 18

Henry V's Review Before Agincourt -- 20

Entry of the Burgundians into Paris. -- 26

Joan of Arc recognizes the French King. -- 50

Assassination of the Earl of Rutland. -- 78

Interview between Edward IV and Louis XI. -- 98

The Tower of London in 1690. -- 108

Henry Tudor crowned on the Battle-Field of Bosworth. -- 114

Confession of Peter Warbeck. -- 144

Chapel and Tomb of Henry VII. -- 152

Landing Henry VIII at Calais -- 160

Cardinal Wolsey Served by Noblemen -- 180

Henry VIII -- 210

Anger of Henry VIII on his First View of Anne of Cleves. -- 246

Catherine Discussing Theology with the King. -- 262

Death of Anne Askew. -- 274

Edward VI Writing His Journal -- 280

The Corpse passed under her Windows -- 286

Mary Vows To Marry Philip II -- 302

Mary, Queen of Scots -- 346

George Douglass seized Darnley's Dagger and Struck Rizzio -- 348

Mary Stuart Swearing She Had Never Sought The Life Of Elizabeth. -- 402

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Table Of Contents.

Chapter XIII. Grandeur and Decline
Henry V. (1418-1422)
Henry VI. (1422-1461) -- 9

Chapter XIV. Red Rose and White Rose
Edward IV. (1461-1483)
Edward V. (1483)
Richard III.(1483-1485) -- 81

Chapter XV. The Tudors
Re-establishment of the Regular Government
Henry VII. (1485-1509) -- 117

Chapter XVI. Henry VIII. and Wolsey (1509-1529) -- 154

Chapter XVII. The Royal Reform
Personal Government
Henry VIII. (1529-1547) -- 210

Chapter XVIII. The Reformation
Edward VI. (1547-1553) -- 268

Chapter XIX. Persecution
Bloody Mary (1553-1558) -- 293

Chapter XX. Policy and Government of Queen Elizabeth,
Her Foreign Relations (1558-1603) -- 324

Chapter XXI. Social and Literary Progress of England
under Elizabeth -- 429

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Guizot's

History Of England,

Vol. II.

From the accession of Henry V.,
to the death of Queen Elizabeth,
1413-1603.

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