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Battle of Mortimer's Cross, and second battle

of St. Alban's Deposition of the King

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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

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Edward lands at Ravenspur; Clarence re-joins
the Yorkists; battle of Barnet; death of the
famous Earl of Warwick; and capture of
King Henry

Battle of Tewkesbury; death of King Henry's
son Edward

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Peace of Pecquigni

Duke of Clarence drowned in a Malmsey butt

Jane Shore

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Cruelty, revelries, and death of King Edward
Verses by Caxton, the first English printer
Edward V.

Murdered with his brother in the Tower of

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Glo'ster's Victims, a parody on Collin's " Ode on the Passions"

Richard defeated and slain at the battle of Bos

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Death of Prince Arthur, eldest son of the King 1502 ..

Columbus discovers South America

Poetic specimen of the reign

1499

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Death of Sir Thomas Moore

Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell

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1540

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1547 .. 66

1551 .. 68

A newe balade made of Thomas Cromwell, in
Chansonette a la Cour de Henri 8me. contain-
ing a very brief history of his majesty's wives
Poetie specimens of this period
EDWARD VI.

Death of the Protector Somerset

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Christchurch, Bartholemew, and Bridewell
Hospitals founded by King Edward, who

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Deaths of Lady Jane Grey, Lord Dudley, the

Duke of Northumberland, &c.

Mary marries Prince Philip of Spain

Hooper, Latimer, and many martyrs burnt. 1555 .. 73

Archbishop Cranmer burnt

..... 1556 ibid.

Calais is taken from the English

Specimens of clerical poetry in
ELIZABETH

Drake sails round the world and returns in

Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded

The Spanish Armada defeated

SHAKESPEARE flourished

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The Queen condescends to strike the Earl of

Essex

The Earl beheaded in

The Queen appoints James of Scotland her

successor, and dies in

Specimen of poetry

PART IX.

HOUSE OF STUART.

The kingdoms of England and Scotland united

in JAMES the first King of Great Britain

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The Duke of Buckingham murdered by Felton 1628 .. 103

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The King sets up his standard at Nottingham 1642
Many battles between the Parliamentary forces
and the King's, concluding with the fatal
battle of Naseby, and martyrdom of the
King in

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A royal order relative to the grenadiers'

march

Inter-regnum, or Commonwealth

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Puritannical names assumed by the soi disant saints

Protectorship of OLIVER CROMWELL

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Naval victories of Monk, Blake, Pen, and Ascue
Quakers began to make themselves conspicuous
Siege of Drogheda

The Scots defcated at Dunbar and Worcester
Despotism of Cromwell

His death

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RICHARD CROMWELL, second protector .... 1658 ..

Alternate ascendancy of Lambert, Fleetwood,

and Monk

Resignation of the Protector

Specimen of poetry in

PART X.

CHARLES II.

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Luxury of the new Court

... 132

Rochester,

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