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1、YOUNG FOLKS HISTORY OF ENGLAND. by CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. CONTENTS. CHAPTER. 1.Julius Caesar. B.C. 55. 2.The Romans in Britain. A.D. 41418. 3.The Angle Children. A.D. 597. 4.The Northmen. A.D. 858958. 5.The Danish Conquest. A.D. 9581035. 6.The Norman Conquest. A.D. 10351066.7.William the Conqueror. A.D
2、. 10661087.8.William II., Rufus. A.D. 10871100. 9.Henry I., Beau-Clerc. A.D. 11001135. 10.Stephen. A.D. 11351154. 11.Henry II., Fitz-Empress. A.D. 11541189. 12.Richard I., Lion-Heart. A.D. 11891199. 13.John, Lackland. A.D. 11991216. 14.Henry III., of Winchester. A.D. 12161272. 15.Edward I., Longshan
3、ks. A.D. 12721307. 16.Edward II., of Caernarvon. A.D. 13071327. 17.Edward III. A.D. 13271377. 18.Richard II. A.D. 13771399. 19.Henry IV. A.D. 13991413. 20.Henry V., of Monmouth. A.D. 14131423. 21.Henry VI., of Windsor. A.D. 14231461. 22.Edward IV. A.D. 14611483. 23.Edward V. A.D. 1483. 24.Richard II
4、I. A.D. 14831485. 25.Henry VII. A.D. 14851509. 26.Henry VIII. and Cardinal Wolsey. A.D. 15091529. 27.Henry VIII. and his Wives. A.D. 15281547. 28.Edward VI. A.D. 15471553.29.Mary I. A.D. 15531558.30.Elizabeth. A.D. 15581587. 31.Elizabeth (continued). A.D. 15871602. 32.James I., A.D. 16021625. 33.Cha
5、rles I., A.D. 16251645. 34.The Long Parliament. A.D. 1649. 35.Death of Charles I. A.D. 16491651. 36.Oliver Cromwell. A.D. 16491660. 37.Charles II. A.D. 16601685. 38.James II. A.D. 16851688. 39.William III., and Mary II. A.D. 16891702. 40.Anne. A.D. 17021714. 41.George I. A.D. 17141725. 42.George II.
6、 A.D. 17251760. 43.George III. A.D. 17601785. 44.George III. (continued). A.D. 17851810. 45.George III.The Regency. A.D. 18101820. 46.George IV. A.D. 1820-1839. 47.William IV. A.D. 18301837. 48.Victoria. A.D. 18371855. 49.Victoria (continued). A.D. 18551860. 50.Victoria (continued). A.D. 18601872.YO
7、UNG FOLKS HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55. Nearly two thousand years ago there was a brave captain whose name was Julius Caesar. The soldiers he led to battle were very strong, and conquered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had swords a
8、nd spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long tufts of horse-hair upon them, by way of ornament, and breast-plates of brass on their breasts, and on their arms they carried a sort of screen, made of strong leather. One of them carrie
9、d a little brass figure of an eagle on a long pole, with a scarlet flag flying below, and wherever the eagle was seen, they all followed, and fought so bravely that nothing could long stand against them. When Julius Caesar rode at their head, with his keen, pale hook-nosed face, and the scarlet cloa
10、k that the general always wore, they were so proud of him, and so fond of him, that there was nothing they would not do for him. Julius Caesar heard that a little way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was
11、found in the shells of mussels which lived in the rivers. He could not bear that there should be any place that his own people, the Romans, did not know and subdue. So he commanded the ships to be prepared, and he and his soldiers embarked, watching the white cliffs on the other side of the sea grow
12、 higher and higher as he came nearer and nearer. When he came quite up to them, he found the savages were there in earnest. They were tall men, with long red streaming hair, and such clothes as they had were woollen, checked like plaid; but many had their arms and breasts naked, and painted all over
13、 in blue patterns. They yelled and brandished their darts, to make Julius Caesar and his Roman soldiers keep away; but he only went on to a place where the shore was not quite so steep, and there commanded his soldiers to land. The savages had run along the shore too, and there was a terrible fight;
14、 but at last the man who carried the eagle jumped down into the middle of the natives, calling out to his fellows that they must come after him, or they would lose their eagle. They all came rushing and leaping down, and thus they managed to force back the savages, and make their way to the shore. T
15、here was not much worth having when they had made their way there. Though they came again the next year, and forced their way a good deal farther into the country, they saw chiefly bare downs, or heaths, or thick woods. The few houses were little more than piles of stones, and the people were rough
16、and wild, and could do very little. The men hunted wild boars, and wolves and stags, and the women dug the ground, and raised a little corn, which they ground to flour between two stones to make bread; and they spun the wool of their sheep, dyed it with bright colors, and wove it into dresses. They had some strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down
