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! DOUBLE Cromlech at Plas Newydd, in Anglesey Gold Coins of Tasciovanus and of Cunobelin . Page i xiii Brass Coin of Hadrian, on occasion of his visit to Britain on the rocks of Britain Brass Coin of Commodus, commemorating the victories of Ulpius Marcellus Brass Coins of Caracalla and of Geta, commemorating their father's conquests Gold Coin of Carausius, on his founding an empire in Britain. Brass Coin of Carausius, representing his association with Diocletian and Maximian 33 36 36 ib. ib. 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 Northman's Armlet Arms ascribed to Egbert Ethelwulf's Ring Edmund of East Anglia; from a painted panel of the ib. 242 243 263 ib. 265 William I., from his Great Seal, and Arms ascribed to, Henry I. and Queen Maud, from Rochester Cathedral 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 Arms and Badge of Henry II. Richard I., from his Monument at Fontevraud Berengaria, from her Monument at Lespan Arms and Badge of Richard I. John, from his Monument in Worcester Cathedral Isabella of Angoulême, from her Monument at Fontevraud Henry III., from his Monument in Westminster Abbey. 295 Edward II., from his Monument in Gloucester Cathedral 363 375 Edward III. and Philippa of Hainault, from their Monuments, Westminster Abbey Edward the Black Prince, from his Tomb at Canterbury 377 Arms of John of Gaunt . 378 . 379 Edward III. . |