a history of british india from the earliest english intercourse to the present
- Author: charles macfarlane
- Genre: India
India’s length from Cashmir to Cape Comorin is about 1,900 English miles; and its breadth from the mouth of the Indus to the mountains to the East of the Baramputra river is considerably more than 1,500 English miles. It is crossed from east to west by a chain of mountains. Guzerat and Bengal are concerned by the natives as being included neither in Hindustan nor the Declcan; they differ greatly from each other, but each is like the part of Hindustan which is nearest to it. Its population is about 140,500,000. This is a great book on history that contains British point of view of the Empire.
the life of sir thomas gresham founder of the royal exchange
- Author: charles macfarlane
- Genre: History
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. GRESHAM SERVES QUEEN MARY. Gresham's great friend and patron, the Duke of Northumberland, came to as tragical an end as that to which he had condemned his rival, the Duke of Somerset. Edward the Sixth died on the 6th of July, 1553. To further the wild scheme of his ambition, Northumberland resolved to conceal the young king's death for some days. He commanded the attendance at Greenwichwhere the dead body was lyingof the lord mayor of London, six aldermen, and twelve other citizens " of chiefest account." On the 8th of July the mayor, the aldermen, and the citizens, who were half of them merchants of the staple, and half merchant-adventurers like the Greshams, went down to Greenwich, where Northumberland and some of the council secretly revealed to them the death of the king, as also how, by his last will, and by his letters patent, the late King Edward had appointed and ordained that, to the exclusion of his two half- sisters, the princesses Mary and Elizabeth, the Lady Jane Grey, who had been recently married to one of Northumberland's sons, should be his successor in the throne and sovereignty. The city deputation, being shown what was, or was called, King Edward's will, swore allegiance to Lady Jane, and were bound under a great penalty notto divulge these " secret passages," until ,,,they should receive further orders fiom the couUietl. Two days after this, on the 10th of July, Lady Jane Grey was conveyed with great state by water to the Tower of London, and was there publicly received as Queen of England; and in the course of the evening of that day the death of King Edward was publicly divulged for the first time, and Jane was proclaimed as queen in the city. The lords of the council, including the Duke of Northumberland, Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbur...
the lives and exploits of banditti and robbers in all parts of the world
- Author: charles macfarlane
- Genre: History
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reminiscences of a literary life
- Author: charles macfarlane
- Genre: England
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life of napoleon bonaparte
- Author: charles macfarlane
- Genre: Military
Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
the camp of refuge
- Author: charles macfarlane
- Genre: Electronic books
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE . SUCCURSAL CELL. The Abbat of Oowland's letter, read aloud and slowly by the cheerful fire, had no note of gladness in it. It began " Woe to the Church! woe to the servants of God! woe to all of the Saxon race ! " and it ended with, "Woe ! woe! woe! " It related how all the prelates of English birth were being expelled by foreign priests, some from France and some from Italy; how nearly every Saxon abbat had been deprived, and nearly every religious house seized by men-at-arms and given over to strange shavelings from Normandie, from Anjou, from Picardie, from Maine, from Gasconie, and numberless other parts,1 and how these alien monks, who could not speak the tongue which Englishmen spoke, were occupying every pulpit and confessional, and consigning the people to perdition because they spoke no French, and preferred their old masters and teachers to their new ones, put over them by violence and the sword ! Jealousies and factions continued to rage among the Saxon lords and among those that claimed kindred with the national dynasties ; sloth and gluttony, and the dullness of the brain they produce, rendered of no 1 There was a general ejection of the Saxon Abbots and Priors save some few like the Abbot of Evesham who made submiBiion. avail the might of the Saxon arm, and the courage of the Saxon heart. Hence a dies iriz, a day of God's wrath. Aldred,1 the archbishop of York, had died of very grief and anguish of mind: Stigand,2 the English and the true archbishop of Canterbury, after wandering in the Danelagh and in Scotland, and flying for his life from many places, had gone in helpless condition to the Camp of Refuge in the Isle of Ely : Edgar Etheling, that royal boy, had been deserted by the Danes, who had crossed the seas in many ships to aid him...
The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical: From the ... 3
- Author: charles macfarlane
- Genre: 20th Century
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The cabinet history of England, civil, military and ecclesiastical ..., Volume 6
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- Genre: 20th Century
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