A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Vol. II

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BY M. Guizot Author of "The Popular History of France," etc. Authorized Edition Illustrated Vol. II

Volume Two.

Table Of Contents.

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

Chapter XIII. Grandeur And Decline. Henry V., Henry VI. (1413-1461).

Chapter XIV. Red Rose And White Rose. Edward IV. (1461-1483).

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter XX. Policy And Government Of Queen Elizabeth. Her Foreign Relations (1558-1603).

Chapter XXI. Social And Literary Progress Of England Under Elizabeth.

[Transcriber's note: This production is based on https://archive.org/details/popularhistoryeng02guiz/page/n7/mode/2up

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.]

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Parting Of Sir Thomas More And His Daughter.

A Popular History Of England
From the Earliest Times
To The Reign Of Queen Victoria

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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