UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTERMEDIATE SOURCE-BOOKS OF HISTORY. No. 1. ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER'S ENGLAND. Edited by DOROTHY HUGHES, M.A. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. net. No. 2. ENGLAND UNDER THE YORKISTS, 1460-1485. Illustrated from Contemporary Sources by ISOBEL D. THORNLEY, M.A. Crown 8vo, 9s. 6d. net. No. 3. ENGLAND UNDER THE LANCASTRIANS. By JESSIE H. FLEMMING, M.A. Crown 8vo, 12s. 6d. net. No. 4. ENGLAND UNDER THE RESTORA TION, 1660-1688. By THORA G. STONE, Forthcoming volumes : No. 5. ENGLAND UNDER HENRY III, 12161272. BY MARGARET A. HENNINGS, M.A. No. 6. ENGLAND UNDER ELIZABETH, 1558-1603. By J. E. NEALE, M.A. No. 7. ENGLAND BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST. BY PROF. R. W. CHAMBERS, D.Lit. LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO., London, New York, Toronto, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. A. F. POLLARD, M.A., LITT.D., F.B.A. FELLOW OF ALL SOULS, AND PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH HISTORY [UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INTERMEDIATE SOURCE- NDIANA UNIVERSITY LONGMANS, GREEN AND C 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.C. 4 NEW YORK, TORONTO BOMBAY, CALCUTTA AND MADRAS PREFACE. THE first three volumes in this series dealt with the last century and a half of the Middle Ages. The present volume, dealing with England under the Restoration, illustrates a modern period in which the interests of England have greatly expanded. Scotland and Ireland have become parts of the same monarchy which has also extended its sway into America and India, while at home the Reformation and the New Monarchy have provoked new problems of policy and administration. The increasing complexity of government is reflected in the growing bulk and variety of the sources from which the following extracts have had to be selected. Nor is it merely the activity of government which has to be illustrated; the intellectual interests of private individuals, their concern in public affairs, and their literary and political means of self-expression have expanded with equal rapidity. The New Learning had been at least as fruitful as the New Monarchy; and diaries like Pepys', memoirs like Reresby's, contemporary histories like Clarendon's and Burnet's, political satires like Dryden's, political tracts like Halifax', the Commons' Journals, and newspapers are as important and as novel materials for history as the hundreds of volumes of colonial state papers or the voluminous records of the African companies. |