Capitolo 1
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE INGHILTERRA.
Seventy-five years have passed from when Lingard completed his/her History Of
England that ends with the Revolution of 1688. During that period
I study historical you/he/she has made a great advance. Per annum after year the mass of
material for a new History of England they are increased; new lights have
is thrown on events and characters, and the old errors have been
as amended. Many notable jobs have been written in the various periods of
our history; some of them to such length as to almost exclusively appeal
to historical and declared students. You believes that the time has come
when the advance that has been done in the knowledge of history English
you/he/she should fairly witness staid as a whole the public in a solo job of
suitable ransom. Such book should be founded upon independent thought and
you investigate, but owes to the same duration is written with a full knowledge
of the jobs of the best modern historians and with a desire to take
advantage of their teaching wherever sound appears.
The enormous number of authority, printed and in manuscript on that a
History of England should be based, if it is to represent the existing one
state of knowledge, makes co-operation almost necessary and certainly
advisable. The History of which this volume is an installment, is a
you try to rise up before currently a legible form the reached results
from search. It will consist of twelve volumes within twelve different
writers, each of their chosen as being especially able distribution with
the period that he undertakes, and the editors, while going away to each
author as I free a hand as possible, you hope to assure a general similarity
in method of treatment, so that the twelve volumes are able in them
contained, as in their external aspect, you form a History.
As it cares his/her title, this History will primarily treat with politics,
with the History of England and, after the date of the union with
Scotland, Great Britain as a state or body politic; but as the life of
a nation is complex, and its condition to some determined duration cannot be