CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

CHAPTER I,

PAOR

Introduction.,..

Britain under the Romans..

Britain under the Saxons..

Effect of the Conversion of the Saxons to Christianity ... 6

Danish Invasions ..

The Normans ...

The Norman Conquest and its Effects.12

Effects of the Separation of England and Normandy ... 15

Amalgamation of Races..

Conquests of the English on the Continent.18

Wars of the Roses .. 20

Extinction of Villenage. 21

Beneficial Operation of the Roman Catholic Religion ... 22

The Nature of the ancient English Government often misrepre-sented, and why ..

Description of the limited Monarchies of the Middle Ages . . 27

Prerogatives of the ancient English Kings how limited ... 28

The Limitations not always strictly observed, and why ... 29

Resistance an ordinary Check on Tyranny in the Middle Ages . 33

Peculiar Character of the English Aristocracy .... 36

The Government of the Tudors..

The limited Monarchies of the Middle Ages generally turned into

absolute Monarchies, and why.41

The English Monarchy a singular Exception, and why ... 42

The Reformation and its Effects ... ... 44