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line was restored in Edward III., the Confessor, 1041 ; and Harold II., 

 1066. Next succeeded the Norman line, of William, \he Conqueror, 

 1066 ; William II., Rufus, 1087 ; Henry I., 1100 ; and Stephen of 

 Blois, 1135; who was followed by the house of Plantagenet, com- 

 prising Henry II., Plantagenet, 1154; Richard I., Coeur de Lion, 

 1189; John, Lackland, 1199; Henry III., of Winchester, 1216; 

 Edward I., Longshanks, 1272; Edward II., of Caernarvon, 1307 ; 

 Edward III., of Windsor, 1327 ; Richard II., of Bourdeaux, 1377 ; 

 Henry IV., Bolingbroke of Lancaster, 1399 ; Henry V., of Mon- 

 mouth, 1413 ; Henry VI., of Windsor, 1422 ; Edward IV., of 

 York, 1461 ; and Edward V., and Richard III., the Hunchback, 

 in 1483. Next came the house of Tudor; Henry VII., 1485; 

 Henry VIII., 1509 ; Edward VI., 1547 ; Mary, 1553 ; and Eliza- 

 beth, 1558 : next the house of Stuart; James I., 1603 ; Charles I., 

 1625; the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell, 1649 ; Charles II., 

 1660; James II., 1685 ; William III., and Mary, 1689 ; and Anne, 

 1702 ; and lastly, the house of Brunswick, George I., 1714 ; 

 George II., 1727; George III., 1760; George IV., 1820; William 

 IV., 1830 ; and Victoria, 1837. 



Of British statesmen and warriors, Edward, the Black prince, son 

 of Edward III., died in 1376. Henry Percy,, of Northumberland, 

 called Hotspur, fell at Shrewsbury, in 1403. John Talbot, first earl 

 of Shrewsbury, fell in righting the French, in 1453. The earl of 

 Warwick, called the king maker, fell at the battle of Barnet, in 1441. 

 Cardinal Wolsey, minister of Henry VIII., died in 1530. The good 

 Sir Philip Sidney, died of a wound, near Zutphen, in 1586; Sir 

 Francis Wahingham, died in 1590; and Sir Walter Raleigh, was 

 beheaded in 1618. George Villiers, the unworthy duke of Bucking- 

 ham, was assassinated in 1628 ; and Thomas Wenfworth, earl of 

 Strafford, was beheaded in 1641. Admiral Robert Slake, died in 

 1657. Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, chancellor, and historian, 

 died in 1674. Algernon Sidney, the patriot, was beheaded in 1683 ; 

 and .Anthony Ashley Cooper, first earl of Shaftsbury, died in the 

 same year. John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, the renowned 

 general, died in 1722. Robert Walpole, earl of Oxford, died in 

 1745 ; and his rival, Henry St. John, viscount Bolingbroke, died in 

 1751. William Pitt, earl of Chatham, died in 1778 ; and Edmund 

 Burke, the orator, in 1797. Horatio Nelson, the renowned admiral, 

 fell at Trafalgar, in 1805. Charles James Fox, died in 1806; 

 William Pitt, the same year; Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in 1816; 

 and George Canning, in 1827. Arthur Wellesley, duke of Welling- 

 ton, still lives to enjoy his well-earned reputation. Of British jurists, 

 Sir Thomas Littleton, died in 1481 ; Sir Edward Coke, in 1634; 

 Sir Matthew Hale, in 1676 ; Sir William Blackstone, in 1780; and 

 William Murray, earl of Mansfield, died in 1793. 



Of British divines, commencing with the schoolmen, Alexander 

 Hales, styled the irrefragable, died in 1245 ; John Duns, usually 

 called Duns Scotus, and styled the subtle doctor, founder of the sect 

 of Scotists, (Realists), died in 1308 ; and William Occam, styled the 

 invincible, and leader of the sect of the Nominalists, died in 1347. 

 John Wicklij/fe, the reformer, died in 1384; William Tyndal suffered 

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