Excerpt from History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Eight The design of this book is to give more prominence to some of the events which were merely adverted to in my Land marks of the History of England. It still limits itself, however, to the more striking incidents in our chequered story, and those which had an enduring influence on our national career. I have endeavoured to compress the infinite riches of our annals as far as possible, at the sacrifice, neces sarily, of some of the minuteness of detail which gives such a charm to historic narrative in the hands of Froude or Macaulay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.