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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT :
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Be it remembered, that on the twelfth day of January, A. D. 1829, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, MUNROE & FRANCIS, of the said district, have deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

A concise History of England, comprised in a Set of Easy Lessons for Children. Brought down to the Peace of Paris, By MRS. TRIMMER. To which are added, Tables of Chronology, Events, &c.

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act entitled, "An act supplementary to an act entitl 1, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.'

JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

THE following Lessons, are designed to initiate young readers in the knowledge of the History of England.

The island of Great Britain, containing England, Scotland, and Wales, was formerly called Albion. The southern parts are supposed to have been first peopled by the Gauls, the northern by the Germans; and the eastern by the Picts, who are said to have come out of Scythia. All the Britons went

without any clothing, except the skins of wild beasts thrown carelessly over them; and they painted their bodies of a sky-blue colour, in rude forms of flowers, trees, and animals. Instead of houses they had little mean huts: they tilled no ground, their food being game and fruits. Their arms were a shield and a short spear; to the lower end of the latter was fastened a bell of brass, in order to frighten their enemies, when they shook it. In battle they made use of chariots armed with scythes, driving furiously among their enemies, and darting their spears. The British women accompanied their husbands to the field, and encouraged them in battle by their heroic example.

TABLE I.

Before the Conquest by William, Duke of Normandy, Britain was successively governed by the following people :

1. THE BRITONS.

2. THE ROMANS.

3. THE SAXONS.

4. THE DANES.

It will be found of great help to the memory, to learn this and the succeeding Tables by heart; and the Map of Great Britain should be referred to throughout the ensuing History, wherever the name of places occur.

THE BRITONS.

LESSON I.

The Druids.-Gathering the Misletoe

THE ancient Britons, according to Cæsar's account of them, were divided into three classes of people, answering to our nobility, clergy, and commonalty; the last of whom were little better than slaves, or dependents on the other two. The nobility were considered in their several states, as Princes, or Chiefs, and had a number of followers, according as they excelled one another in birth and wealth. The men had the power of life and death over their wives, children, and slaves; but none were permitted to speak of matters of state, except in assemblies held for that purpose.