PREFACE.

THE publication of this Volume has been delayed by engagements which I had not anticipated when the Introductory Volume was committed to the press. The Work, however, is now so far advanced, that I may hope to place it before the Public, in a complete.state, at an early day.

LONDON, June, 1858.

CONTENTS.

Volume the Second.

CHAPTER XIV.

Condition of Manners in the Middle Ages - Religion and

Chivalry-Wars of the Roses-The Reform-

Morals

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ation - Intellectual Progress - The Tudors-State of

Education-Architecture-Baronial Residences-Power

of the Crown Authority of the Church Rise of

Religious Freedom - Social Progress General Im-

morality - Institution of a System of Police - Public

Thoroughfares English Mobs - Bad Effects of the

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