Walter Besant

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

PART I MEDIAEVAL SOVEREIGNS

PART II SOCIAL AND GENERAL

APPENDICES

INDEX

Transcriber’s Notes

The cover was created by adding text to a plain background and is placed in the public domain.

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and spelling remain unchanged except where in conflict with the index.

Page numbers have been added to the index entries for City Police, the, and for Kingston-on-Hull.

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