Re

LORD

BY

MACAULAY.

VOLUME I.

LONDON:

HeNGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS.

شه

10.

Harvard College Library,
From the Estate of
Professor · W. Gurney,
March 6, 1307.

(I,D-Y., W.)

1905.90.43

BOUND NOV 1 2 1909

LONDON:
Printed by SPOTTISWOODE & Co.
New-street Square.

!

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION

Britain under the Romans; Britain under the Saxons

Conversion of the Saxons to Christianity

Extinction of Villenage

23

26

29

30

35

-

38

-

40

Beneficial Operation of the Roman Catholic Religion

The early English Polity often misrepresented, and why

Nature of the limited Monarchies of the Middle Ages; Pre-

rogatives of the early English Kings

Limitations of the Prerogative

Resistance an ordinary Check on Tyranny in the Middle Ages

Peculiar Character of the English Aristocracy

Government of the Tudors

Limited Monarchies of the Middle Ages generally turned into

The Puritans

Their Republican Spirit; No systematic Parliamentary Opposi-

tion offered to the Government of Elizabeth

Question of the Monopolies

Scotland and Ireland become Parts of the same Empire with

England

62

64

65

Petition of Right violated; Character and Designs of Went-

worth

Victory of the Parliament

Domination and Character of the Army

Risings against the Military Government suppressed

Proceedings against the King

Subjugation of Ireland and Scotland

Expulsion of the Long Parliament

The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell

Oliver succeeded by Richard -

Fall of Richard and Revival of the Long Parliament
Second Expulsion of the Long Parliament