A HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

By the Rev. J. FRANCK BRIGHT, M. A., Fellow of University College, and Historical Lecturer in Balliol, New, and University Colleges, Oxford; late Master of the Modern School in Marlborough College.

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HISTORY OF ENGLAND

BY THE REV.

J. FRANCK BRIGHT, M.A.

FELLOW OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, AND HISTORICAL LECTURER IN BALLIOL, NEW, AND
UNIVERSITY COLLEGES, OXFORD; LATE MASTER OF THE MODERN SCHOOL
IN MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE

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A LIST OF SOME USEFUL AUTHORITIES.

GENERAL HISTORIES.

Macaulay's History of England, 1600-1702. Macaulay's Essays.
Mahon's History of England, 1713-1783. Massey's History of
England, 1745-1802. Martineau's History of the Peace, 1800-1848.
Erskine May's Constitutional History, 1760-1860. Ralph's History
of England, 1689-1727. Pauli's Geschichte Englands, from 1814.

BOOKS OF GENERAL REFERENCE.

Cobbett's Parliamentary History, to 1803. Hansard's Debates, from 1803. The Monthly Mercury, from 1690. The Annual Register, from 1758. State Tracts. Anderson's History of Commerce. Maculloch's Commercial Dictionary. Eden's State of the Poor. Howell's State Trials. Macpherson's State Papers, 16881714. Hardwicke's State Papers, to 1727.

FOREIGN HISTORIES.

Documens inédits sur l'Histoire de France (for the Spanish succession).
Sismondi or Martin's Histoire de France, to 1789. Von Sybel's
French Revolution. Lanfrey's Histoire de Napoleon. Ranke's His-
tory of Prussia. Bancroft's History of the United States. Mill's
History of India. Grant Duff's History of the Mahrattas. The
Despatches of Wellesley and Cornwallis. Frida's The English in
Ireland, to 1800. ...

WILLIAM III.

Burnet's History of his Orn Time, 1660-1713. Kennett's History of England, vol. iii. Lefoe's Werks are instructive as to the state of England at this firao.

ANNE.

Stanhope's Reign of Queen Anne. Coxe's Life of Marlborough.
Marlborough's Letters and Despatches, 1702-1712. Bolingbroke's
Correspondence. Life of Sacheverel.

GEORGE I.

Swift's Drapier's Letters, etc.

The Stuart Papers, edited by Glover. Coxe's Life of Walpole. Boyer's Political State of Great Britain.

GEORGE II.

Hervey's Memoirs of the Reign of George II., 1727-1742. Horace
Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George II., 1751-1760. Dod-
dington's Diary, 1749-1761. Waldegrave's Memoirs, 1754-1758.
Southey's Life of Wesley. Philip's Life and Times of Whitfield.
Johnstone's Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745.

GEORGE III.

Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George III., 17601771. The Letters of Junius. The Grenville Papers. The Bedford Correspondence. Buckingham's Memoirs of the Court and Cabinet of George III. Russell's Life of Fox. Thackeray's Life of Chatham. Stanhope's Life of Pitt. Wilberforce's Life. Malmesbury's Diary and Correspondence. The Cornwallis Correspondence, 1770-1805. Napier's Peninsula War. Life of Bamford the Radical. Lord Dudley's Letters, 1814-1823. Bell and Stapleton's Lives of Canning.

It is not, however, necessary to give a detailed list of authorities, which would be little more than a catalogue of the lives, letters, and memoirs of most of the important men of the time. Of these the number is constantly being augmented, and it is from them and the contemporary tracts, monographs, pamphlets, and fugitive writings that the details of the History must be drawn.

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