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Mary Platt Parmele. A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland
A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland
Table of Contents
PREFACE
HISTORY OF ENGLAND
ILLUSTRATIONS
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
Queen Elizabeth going on board the "Golden Hind." From the painting by Frank Brangwyn
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament, 1653. Having commanded the soldiers to clear the hall, he himself went out last, and ordered the doors to be locked. From the drawing by Seymour Lucas
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
Nelson's Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. From the painting by Stanfield in the National Gallery, London
The British Squares at Quattre-Bras, 1815. From the painting by Elizabeth Southerden Thompson
CHAPTER XIII
The British in India: A native prince receiving the decoration of the order. of the Star of India from Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales. From the painting by Sydney Hall, P.M.A
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
A SHORT HISTORY OF IRELAND
A SHORT HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
SOVEREIGNS AND RULERS OF ENGLAND
INDEX
ENGLAND
SCOTLAND
IRELAND
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Mary Platt Parmele
Published by Good Press, 2021
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William, Duke of Normandy, was King of England. Not alone that. He claimed that he had been rightful King ever since the death of his cousin Edward the Confessor; and that those who had supported Harold were traitors, and their lands confiscated to the crown. As nearly all had been loyal to Harold, the result was that most of the wealth of the Nation was emptied into William's lap, not by right of conquest, but by English law.
Feudalism had been gradually stifling old English freedom, and the King saw himself confronted with a feudal baronage, nobles claiming hereditary, military, and judicial power independent of the King, such as degraded the Monarchy and riveted down the people in France for centuries. With the genius of the born ruler and conqueror, William discerned the danger and its remedy. Availing himself of the early legal constitution of England, he placed justice in the old local courts of the "hundred" and "shire," to which every freeman had access, and these courts he placed under the jurisdiction of the King alone. In Germany and France the vassal owned supreme fealty to his lord, against all foes, even the King himself. In England, the tenant from this time swore direct fealty to none save his King.
