29. What is said of Edward? What of his reign? What important clause did he add to Magna Charta? 30. What enterprise did Edward II. undertake? What was the issue? 31. What is said of Edward? How was his reign characterized? 32. What is said of Isabella? What was done to the king? 33. Who had the chief control during the minority of Edward III. What is said of Edward on his coming of age? What became of Mor timer and Isabella? 34. What victory did Edward gain over the Scots? What measure did he adopt with regard to France? 35. What naval victory did he gain? 36. What account is given of the battle of Cressy? For what is this battle memorable? What further advantage did he gain? 37. What took place in England while Edward was in France? 38. What account is given of the battle of Poictiers? What was done with king John? 39. What is said of Edward in the latter part of his reign? What is mentioned of. the Black Prince and of Charles V. of France? What is said of the death of the Black Prince? 40. What is said of Edward and his reign? What is said of his wars? 41. What is mentioned respecting chivalry in this reign? 42. What is said of Richard II.? To whom was the administration of the government intrusted during his minority? What is said of John of Gaunt? 43. What tax was imposed, and what was its effect? What is related respecting a tax-gatherer? What events followed? 44. What account is given of the battle of Otterburn? What ballad is founded on this battle? 45. What did Richard do respecting his cousin Henry? How did Henry revenge himself? What became of the king? 46. Who was the true heir to the crown? What contests followed this transaction? What is said of Chaucer? SECTION V. 1. What is said of Henry's situation? What account is given of the battle of Smewsoury? 2. What was supposed respecting Henry while a subject? How did he proceed after he came to the throne? 3. What is said of Henry and his reign? 4. By what was the latter part of his life imbittered? lated of the Prince of Wales? 5. What did the king say respecting the circumstance? What is re 6. What course did Henry V. take on succeeding to the throne? What is said of this conduct? 7. What account is given of Sir John Oldcastle? 8. In what war did Henry engage, and what battle did he gain r What was the loss of the French? What followed? 9. What is said of the reign and character of Henry? 10. At what age was Henry VI. proclaimed king of England and France? To whom was his education intrusted, and who were pro tectors of his dominions? 11 What is related of Charles VII. and his success? 12. What is said of Henry on coming of age? Whom did he marry? What is said of her? 13. What is related of Jack Cade's rebellion? 14. What is mentioned respecting the Duke of Gloucester? What was the consequence of his death? 15. What was the origin of the houses of York and Lancaster? How were the parties distinguished, and what were the wars styled? 16. What is related of this quarrel? 17. In what battles were the Lancastrians defeated? What was done by the queen? What did the son and successor of the Duke of York accomplish? SECTION VI. 1. What battle took place between the two parties, soon after Ed ward IV. was raised to the throne? How many were slain? What became of Henry? 2. What became of the queen? by a robber? What is related of her deliverance 3. By whom had the house of York been hitherto supported? What course did the Earl of Warwick take in consequence of Edward's offending him? What followed? 4. What was the issue of the battle of Barnet? Of Tewksbury › What became of the queen and her son? 5. What course did Edward afterwards pursue? What did he do to his brother the Duke of Clarence? What is said of him? 6. Who succeeded to the throne? What is related of Richard Duke of Gloucester? What was done with the young princes? 7. In whom did Richard III. find an avenger? What followed What was the effect of the battle of Bosworth? 8. What is said of the character and person of Richard › SECTION VII. 1. How did Henry VII. strengthen his claim to the crown? What was Henry's descent? What is said of the Tudor family? 2. What was the policy of Henry? What was attempted by Lambert Simnel? What by Perkin Warbeck? What is said of him? 3. To what did the adventurers aspire? What was the destiny of Simnel? What of Perkin? Who was executed near the same time? 4. What is said of the character and habits of Henry? What did he accumulate by his frugality and exactions? 5. What is said of his reign? What was the effect of his regulations? 6. What was the consequence of his permitting the nobles to alienate their lands? What was the commencement of the English navy? 7. What advantages had Henry VIII. on succeeding to the throne? 8. What was the character which he developed? What does Sir Walter Raleigh say of him? 9. What is said of his government? What of his ministers? 10. What became of the treasures which he inherited: What were the military operations of his reign? 11. How did he obtain the title of Defender of the Faith? 12. What are the most memorable transactions of his reign? Who was his first wife? What is said of this connection' 13. What is related of Cardinal Wolsey in relation to this matter? 14. What course was taken to disannul the marriage? What afterwards took place in England? 15. What is remarked respecting the separation of England from the Church of Rome? What course did Henry now pursue? Who were beheaded for refusing to acknowledge his supremacy? 16. What was the fate of Anne Boleyn? Who were Henry's cther queens, and what was their destiny? 17. What three children did Henry leave? Who succeeded him? What is said of his reign? What is said of the Reformation? 18. What is related of Edward? To whom did he bequeath the crown? 19. By whom was Edward succeeded? What is said of Mary? 20. What is related of Jane Grey and her husband? 21. What message did Jane Grey send to her husband on the day of her execution? 22. What course was taken with regard to religion? Who were some of the most eminent martyrs? What effect was produced by these proceedings? 23. To whom was Mary married? What happened in the last year of her reign? What is related respecting her death? How was the accession of Elizabeth received? her reign? By what names was it illustrated? What is said of 25. What is related of the changes with respect to religion? Of 9,000 clergymen, how many gave up their preferments on the acces sion of Elizabeth? 26. With what is Elizabeth charged in her treatment of Mary, Queen of Scots ? Who was Mary? What had she been persuaded to do? 27. What had taken place at the period of Mary's return to Scotland? 28. What is related of Mary's second and third marriages? What effect did her conduct produce? 29. What course did Mary then take? What was her fate? 30. How did Elizabeth offend Philip II. of Spain? How did he attempt to avenge himself? 31. Of what did the Armada consist? By what force and what commanders was it met? What was the result? 32. By what eminent statesmen was Elizabeth assisted? Who were her chief personal favorites? 33. What is said of her close of life? To what has her unhappiness been ascribed? What anecdote is related respecting Essex? 34. What is said of Elizabeth and her public character? What wero her three leading maxims of policy? What is further said of her reign and character? 35. What is said of her private character? SECTION VIII. 1. Whom did Elizabeth nominate for her successor? What title did James assume? What is said of the Stuart family? 2. What conspiracy was formed against James? What is related of Sir Walter Raleigh? 3. What was the design of the Gunpowder Plot? Who was taken with matches in his pocket? 4. What was James's characteristic weakness? Who were his chief favorites? 5. When did the Puritans first make their appearance? For what were they advocates? Were their hopes realized on the accession of James? What settlement did they begin? 6. What was James's leading characteristic? What was his favor. ite topic? What was the best part of his character? 7. What is said of his private character, talents, and manners? What does Bishop Burnet say of him? 8. What circumstances had conspired to diffuse the spirit of liberty? How was the current of public opinion directed? 9. Under what circumstances did Charles I. ascend the throne? What was the state of feeling of many of his subjects? Of what did he soon give proof? Whom did he marry? 10. Why did Charles visit Madrid? What was the result? Why was Charles offended with the parliament? What course did he pursue? How was the tax of ship-money levied? What is said of this tax? 11. What taxes did he levy? What did Charles claim? 12. Who opposed this tax? How was the cause decided? 13. Who were Charles's chief counsellors after the assassination of Buckingham? What course did Laud pursue? 14. What measure did the king undertake with respect to Scotland? What effect did it produce? What took place at one of the churches in Edinburgh? 15. What success did the prelates meet with in other parts? What is said of the National Covenant? What other bond was formed? 16. When, after eleven years' intermission, the king convoked a parliament, what measures did the house of commons adopt? What was done by a parliament afterwards assembled ? 17. How had Charles already violated the privileges of parliament? Into what act of greater indiscretion was he afterwards betrayed? What answer did Lenthal, the speaker, make, when the king ordered him to point out the five men? 18. How did the king then proceed? What was now the feeling of the parliament towards him? 19. By whom, in the civil war, was the cause of the king supported? By whom that of the parliament? What were the supporters of each styled? 20. What formed the characteristic of most of the leaders in parliament? On whom did the charge of license and excess chiefly fall? What is remarked by Mr. Baxter? 21. How long was it since England had been but little engaged in war? Who were the chief commanders in the royal army? Who in the parliamentary army? What two men were killed in an early part of the contest? In what battles had the royalists the advantage? In what ones were they defeated? 22. What happened to the king? What measure was adopted respecting him? What sentence was passed? 23. What is said of Charles on this occasion, and how did he conduct himself? 24. What lesson does the fate of Charles furnish? What is said of the feelings of the people respecting his execution? What has been the effect of it on his reputation? 25. What were the misfortunes of Charles's condition? What was his greatest defect? 26. What is said of his talents, private character, and manners 27. What is said of the proceedings of Charles ? Hume say respecting the Puritans? 23. What is said of those who opposed the king? , What does Mr. 29. What measures were adopted after the death of the king? 30. What was done respecting episcopacy? Who soon after gained the ascendency? To what body was the power transferred from the parliament? Of whom was that part of the parliament called the Rump, composed? 31. What course was adopted by the parliament of Scotland? Where did Cromwell defeat the royalist Covenanters? What account is given of the battle of Worcester? 32. What adventures did young Charles meet with? 33. What is said of the Navigation Act? Of what war was this act the cause? How did this war terminate, and who took a distinguished part in it? 34. How many years had the Long Parliament been in session? What course did it adopt? What did Cromwell resolve upon? What did he do while in a council of officers? 35. What was his next proceeding? 36. In what manner was the Little Parliament assembled? What is said of it? 37. What title did Cromwell assume at the dissolution of the Little Parliament? What is further related of him? 38. How did he administer the government? What is said of his proceedings and situation? 39. What is said of his talents and career? 40. To what did he owe his elevation? What is said of the officers and soldiers? How did Cromwell manage while toiling up the ascent to greatness? 41. To what has the name of Cromwell been subjected? What is said of the treatment he has received from history? Why is it so? 42. What is said of his private character? 43. What is said of Richard Cromwell? What was done by general Monk? When was Charles II. restored? 44. How did the nation suffer him to assume the crown? What do his reign, and that of James II., exhibit? What is said of the new king? 45. What change now took place? What measures were adopted respecting the regicides? What principles and doctrines came in vogue? What acts were passed respecting religion? 46. What was done with Dunkirk? With what nation did Charles engage in war? What calamities visited London? 47. Why did the government become unpopular? On whom was the odium cast? What were the five ministers, who conducted the government after Clarendon was banished, termed ? What 48. What was the religion of Charles and James? For what purpose did Charles receive a pension of Louis XIV. of France? is said of the latter part of Charles's reign? 49. Whose execution was occasioned by the pretended Popish Plot? What is said of the Rye-House Plot? 50. What was the character of the court? characterized? What is said of Charles II.? 51. What is said of James II. and his reign? How was the reign What course did he |