Excerpt from Gage's New English and Canadian History Note-Book United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Eng land is the portion settled by the English. Ireland was conquered by Henry II., the first of the Angevins; and the Irish Parliament united with the English Parliament in 1800. 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.