_I._ _Britain before the Roman Conquest._ _The Phœnicians_ 9 _The Ancient Britons_ 12 _The Druids_ 17 _The Coming of Cæsar_ 20 _II._ _The Shadow of Rome._ _Caractacus_ 27 _A Warrior Queen_ 30 _The Iron Hand_ 33 _III._ _The Coming of the English._ _King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table_ 41 _Hengist and Horsa_ 46 _Ethelbert and Bertha_ 50 _The Singer of the First English Song_ 55 _IV._ _The Viking Invasions._ _The Coming of the Sea-Kings_ 57 _Alfred the Great_ 60 _King Canute_ 69 _V._ _The Coming of the Normans._ _Harold of England and William of Normandy_ 74 _The Eve of the Invasion_ 79 _The Battle of Hastings_ 83 _Hereward the Wake_ 91 _VI._ _England under the Normans._ _William the Red_ 96 _Matilda, “Lady” of England_ 100 _The Great Archbishop_ 106 _Strongbow_ 113 _Richard of the Lion Heart_ 118 _King John and Magna Charta_ 127 _VII._ _The Three Edwards._ _The First Prince of Wales_ 135 _William Wallace_ 140 _Robert the Bruce_ 149 _Merciful Queen_ 157 _The Black Prince_ 163 _VIII._ _On French Fields._ _King Harry the Fifth_ 169 _Joan, the Maid_ 176 _IX._ _The Wars of the Roses._ _The King-Maker_ 184 _The Little Princes in the Tower_ 191 _X._ _Tudor Times._ _John and Sebastian Cabot_ 195 _King and Cardinal_ 200 _The New Worship_ 207