The plain Englishman's historian, or, A compendious chronicle of England from its first being inhabited to this present year 1679 but more especially containing the chief remarques of all our Kings and Queens since the conquest, their lives and reigns, policies, wars, laws, successes, and troubles : with the most notable accidents, as dearths, tempests, monstrous births, and other prodigies that happened in each of their times respectively / by H.C.

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The plain Englishman's historian, or, A compendious chronicle of England from its first being inhabited to this present year 1679 but more especially containing the chief remarques of all our Kings and Queens since the conquest, their lives and reigns, policies, wars, laws, successes, and troubles : with the most notable accidents, as dearths, tempests, monstrous births, and other prodigies that happened in each of their times respectively / by H.C.

Author

H. C., Gent.

Publication

London :: Printed for Langley Curtis,

1679.

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Contents

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• THE EPISTL TO THE READER.
• THE Plain Mans English HISTORIAN.
  • CHAP. I. The State of Britain before the Conquest, under the Britains, Romans, Saxons, and Danes.
  • CHAP. II. Of William the Conquerour.
  • CHAP. III. The Life and Reign of William Rufus.
  • CHAP. IV. King Henry the First.
  • CHAP. V. King Stephen.
  • CHAP. VI. King Henry the Second
  • CHAP. VII. King Richard the First.
  • CHAP. VIII. The Reign of King John.
  • CHAP. IX. King Henry the Third.
  • CHAP. X. Edward the First, by Reason of his Tallness called Long-shank.
  • CHAP. XI. King Edward the Second.
  • CHAP. XII. King Edward the Third.
  • CHAP. XIII. King Richard the Second.
  • CHAP. XIIII. Henry the Fourth.
  • CHAP. XV. King Henry the Fifth.
  • CHAP. XVI. King Henry the Sixth.
  • CHAP. XVII. King Edward the Fourth.
  • CHAP. XVIII. King Edward the Fifth.
  • CHAP. XIX. King Richard the Third.
  • CHAP. XX. King Henry the Seventh.
  • CHAP. XXI. King Henry the Eighth
  • CHAP. XXII. King Edward the Sixth.
  • CHAP. XXIII. Queen Mary
  • CHAP. XXIV. Queen Elizabeth.
  • CHAP. XXV. King James.
  • CHAP. XXVI. King Charles the First
  • CHAP. XXVII. The most remarkable Passages in the Reign of King Charles the Second, hitherto.
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