THE ANNALS OF ENGLAND, A.D. 1485 to A.D. 1603, (THE TUDORS): AN EPITOME OF ENGLISH HISTORY FROM CONTEMPORARY WRITERS. With Notes and Ellustrations. OXFORD AND LONDON: JAMES PARKER AND CO. 1877. 226. k. 394. NOTICE. THE School Edition of "The Annals of England" has been prepared to suit the present system of teaching History in Periods, usually one to each Term. Other works having the same end in view exist, but the complaint is often made, that most of them are in reality Historical Sketches, to understand which demands a much more full acquaintance with the details of name, place and date, than is usually to be found among schoolboys. Recognising this complaint as well founded, the Compiler of the present Work has endeavoured to supply a remedy. His object has been to present, in the fewest possible words, distinct statements of the facts on which the generalizations of the valuable Works in question are founded, and thus to supply a material help to their profitable study. To furnish this, in a small compass and at a moderate cost, the text of the Library Edition of the Annals has been carefully condensed, and it is trusted that the result will be serviceable alike to the Master, and to the Scholar. The aim has been, to save the one the labour of supplying the deficiencies of his Text-books, and to give the other a store of positive knowledge essential to his sound progress, but hitherto not readily attainable. ADVERTISEMENT. THE reigns of the five Tudor Sovereigns occupy a period of little more than a century, but almost every year will be found to be marked by some memorable event, and in many instances the personal character of the ruler is strongly displayed. Unfortunately, the works of the writers who lived in or near their times are, from their usual strong bias in favour of authority, often quite untrustworthy, beside being generally too diffuse for the purpose of the young student. But, until the publication of the State Papers of the Tudors shall be complete, and have led to the compilation of an unbiassed history of their times, the following must be accepted as the best attainable works : Lord Bacon's Henry VII. Hall's, Fabyan's, and Grafton's Chronicles, to 1569. Camden's Annals of Queen Elizabeth. Strype's Lives of the Protestant Archbishops, Cranmer, Parker, Grindal, and Whitgift. Beside these, the State Papers of Burleigh, Murdin, and Winwood may be consulted, as affording much valuable information, though not presented in a very convenient form. The great event of the period is the Reformation, the works relating to which are almost innumerable; |