A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Vol. IIGuizot, François
History
A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Vol. II
Guizot, François
Great Britain -- History
[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.
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A Popular History Of England
From the Earliest Times
_To The Reign Of Queen Victoria_
BY
M. Guizot
Author of "The Popular History of France," etc.
_Authorized Edition_
Illustrated
Vol. II
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Publisher's Logo: ALDI DISCIP ANGLVS
New York
John W. Lovell Company
150 Worth Street, Corner Mission Place
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Volume Two.
Parting of Sir Thomas Moore and his Daughter. -- Frontispiece.
The French Chivalry the Night before the Battle of Agincourt. -- 18
Henry V's Review Before Agincourt -- 20
Entry of the Burgundians into Paris. -- 26
Joan of Arc recognizes the French King. -- 50
Assassination of the Earl of Rutland. -- 78
Interview between Edward IV and Louis XI. -- 98
The Tower of London in 1690. -- 108
Henry Tudor crowned on the Battle-Field of Bosworth. -- 114
Confession of Peter Warbeck. -- 144
Chapel and Tomb of Henry VII. -- 152
Landing Henry VIII at Calais -- 160
Cardinal Wolsey Served by Noblemen -- 180
Henry VIII -- 210
Anger of Henry VIII on his First View of Anne of Cleves. -- 246
Catherine Discussing Theology with the King. -- 262
Death of Anne Askew. -- 274
Edward VI Writing His Journal -- 280
The Corpse passed under her Windows -- 286
Mary Vows To Marry Philip II -- 302
Mary, Queen of Scots -- 346
George Douglass seized Darnley's Dagger and Struck Rizzio -- 348
Mary Stuart Swearing She Had Never Sought The Life
Of Elizabeth. -- 402
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Table Of Contents.
Chapter XIII. Grandeur and Decline
Henry V. (1418-1422)
Henry VI. (1422-1461) -- 9
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