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STANDARD

HISTORICAL SCHOOL SERIES.

BY S. G. GOODRICH.

1. GOODRICH'S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

AND OTHER PORTIONS OF AMERICA.

2. GOODRICH'S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

3. GOODRICH'S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF FRANCE.

4. GOODRICH'S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF GREECE, ANCIENT AND MODERN.

5. GOODRICH'S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ROME AND MODERN ITALY.

6. GOODRICH.-PARLEY'S COMMON SCHOOL HISTORY-A BRIEF

COMPEND OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY.

7 GOODRICH'S FIRST HISTORY-AN INTRODUCTION TO PARLEY'S C MON SCHOOL HISTORY.

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PICTORIAL HISTORY

ENGLAND

BY SC GOODRICH

AUTHOR OF PETER PARLEYS TALES.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY E. H. BUTLER & CO

1866.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by
S. G. GOODRICH,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
S. G. GOODRICH,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I. Introduction. - Importance of the History of England. - Present state

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of the British Empire,

Earliest glimpses of British history.

Cæsar, &c.,

- Invasion of Britain by the Romans,

Caractacus.-- The Druids. - London destroyed.

V.Agricola The Scots and Picts.

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introduced,

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Boadicea defeated,. 17

-The Roman wall. - Christianity

VI. The Romans abandon Britain. Sufferings of the Britons,

VIII. - The Language and Religion of the Anglo-Saxons. -Names of the days
of the week. Introduction of Christianity,

IX The Anglo-Saxons. - Their Historians. —- Condition of the people,

X.-Laws of the Anglo-Saxons. - Modes of trial. - The Ordeal,

XI. -The kingdom of England established. The Danes.

- Of the learning of the Anglo-Saxons. - The Clergy,

XV.-Alfred encourages the arts. - - About the English navy. - Death of

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Alfred. Reign of Edward the Elder,

XVI. Adventures of Aulaif.-The Long Battle.

XVII. Edmund murdered. - Edred. - St. Dunstan,

XVIII. The Monks and the Secular Clergy,

XIX. -Edgar the Peaceable. - Edward the Martyr,

XX. - Ethelred II. - Penances. — Indulgences.

-Troubles with the Danes. - Peace made with them,

Massacre of the Danes in England, &c. Edmund Ironside. - Canute

conquers England,

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XXIII. - Dress and amusements of the Anglo-Saxons,

XXIV. - Canute the Great. His rebuke of his courtiers,

XXV. Reigns of Harold Harefoot, and of Hardicanute,.

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XXXII.-The Crusades,

XXXI William Rufus.-The sons of William the Conqueror,

XXXIV.-Henry I. usurps the crown.- Dispute between the Pope and the

King, &c.,.

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XXXIX. — Matilda marries Geoffry Plantagenet. - Death of Henry I - Stephen

usurps the crown,

Stephen,

XLI.Matilda acknowledged as queen, &c. - Peace restored. - Death of

XLII.-Employment of the ladies in the time of Henry II.,

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XLIV.

Surnames. Education of Henry II., &c. About the only English

man that ever was made pope,

XXVI.

XXVII.

- Edward the Confessor. - Harold. About the Conquest, .

William I., the Conqueror. - The Saxon nobles degraded,

XXVIII.-Game laws. - Rebellion of Robert.- Domes-day Book.- Death of

William I.,

XXIX.-England after the Norman conquest. -The English language,
XXX.-The Feudal System. - A Norman castle, .

XXXIII. William obtains large territories by mortgage. His death,

XXXV. - Henry. Edgar Atheling. - Death of Robert,

XXXVI. - Melancholy condition of the king, &c., .

XXXVII.

XLIII.-Pages, Esquires, and Knights, .