Produced by MWS, Fay Dunn and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber’s Note Words in italics are marked with _underscores_. Words in small capitals are shown in UPPER CASE. Sidenotes showing the year have been moved to the start of paragraphs, and kept only when they change. For some long paragraphs a range of dates is shown. Other sidenotes give the actual date of an event. These have been moved next to the description of the date, and are shown in parentheses, e.g. {30 May}. Others, which merely repeat a date, have been removed. Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of chapters. All references to footnote numbers (i.e. page and note number) have been changed to the footnote numbers used here. The keys of the maps are shown in the descriptions of the illustrations, additions by the transcriber are shown in pararenthes. Some formatting and punctuation in citations, sidenotes and the index have been standardized. Variant spelling, inconsistent hyphenation and inconsistent spelling of people’s names are retained, however a few palpable printing errors have been corrected. The errata list is in the note at the end of the book. JOHN LACKLAND [Illustration: MacMillan and Co.’s monogram] JOHN LACKLAND BY KATE NORGATE _WITH MAPS_ London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1902 _All rights reserved_ CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE JOHN LACKLAND, 1167–1189 1 CHAPTER II JOHN COUNT OF MORTAIN, 1189–1199 24 CHAPTER III JOHN “SOFTSWORD,” 1199–1206 64 CHAPTER IV KING JOHN, 1206–1210 118 CHAPTER V JOHN AND THE POPE, 1210–1214 157 CHAPTER VI JOHN AND THE BARONS, 1214–1215 210 CHAPTER VII JOHN LACKLAND, 1215–1216 247 NOTE I JOHN AND THE DE BRAOSES 287 NOTE II EUSTACE DE VESCI AND ROBERT FITZ-WALTER 289 INDEX 295 LIST OF MAPS I. IRELAND ACCORDING TO THE TREATY OF 1175 _To face page_ 12 II. IRELAND ACCORDING TO HENRY’S DISTRIBUTION, 1177 ” 14 III. IRELAND, A.D. 1185 ” 17 IV. ENGLAND, A.D. 1190 ” 27 V. IRELAND, A.D. 1210 ” 151