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History 



By C. R. L. I'MTCHER. M.A. 



Formerly Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. 



AN INTRODUCTORY 

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From the Earliest Times to the Year 1815. With 

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I— The Earliest Times to the End of the Middle 

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THE MAKING OF 

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A GENERAL HISTORY 

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EUROPE IN THE 

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A compendious history of Mediaeval Europe from 

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English 



By ERNEST WEEKLEY, M.A. 



Professor of French, University College, Nottingham. 



THE ROMANCE OF WORDS 



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A SHORT HISTORY of ENGLISH 



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THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH 



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