The Illustrations, mainly derived from the trustworthy sources of coins, great seals, and monuments, will be found to present a tolerably complete series of the portraits, arms, and devices of each ruler, and may indicate the importance of some acquaintance with heraldry as an aid to the study of history. The work, as its name implies, is mainly devoted to the affairs of England, but notices are given at suitable times of the course of events in Scotland and the Isles, in Wales, and in Ireland; these are necessarily brief, but being drawn from the cotemporary Annals, Chronicles, and Laws of each country, they may perhaps be sufficient to shew what degree of connexion formerly existed between the long independent and often hostile States which now happily unite to form the British Empire. Esto perpetua! List of Illustrations. Page Brass Coin of Hadrian, on occasion of his visit to Britain Brass Coins of Caracalla and of Geta, commemorating ib. Page Gold and Brass Coins of Allectus Figure of St. Alban, from a brass in St. Alban's Abbey Roman Masonry, from the Jewry Wall, Leicester Statue of St. Cuthbert, with St. Oswald's head 15th century Edmund of East Anglia; from a painted panel of the Alfred's Jewel, obverse and profile William I., from his Great Seal, and Arms ascribed to, Henry I. and Queen Maud, from Rochester Cathedral Badge of the Templars Cross of the Hospitallers Stephen, from his Great Seal, and Arms ascribed to, The Escarboucle and Planta Genista Henry II. and Eleanor of Guienne, from their Monuments Arms of William Longespee ib. 239 242 John, from his Monument in Worcester Cathedral 279 ib. 281 |