Outlines of English History: From the Roman Conquest to the Present Time ...
Outlines of English History: From the Roman Conquest to the Present Time ...
Edwards Amelia Ann Blanford
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was a very brave soldier, and spent his whole reign in vrarfare on the continent, and in crusades to the Holy Land. He can scarcely be called an English king at all, for he could not speak one word of Saxon, and, although he vras king for ten years, passed only eight months in England. Retmning fix)m the East, he fell into the power 1 Having approached within three miles of Canterbury, he dismonnted, walking barefoot over the flinty road, which in some places he marked with blood, to the consec...rated spot; spent there, in fosting and prayer, a day and night; and even presented his bare shoulders to be scourged by tho monks with a knotted cord. Digitized by Google ENGLISH HISTOUr. 33 of Leopold, Buke of AuRtria, by whom he was detained in prison till ransomed by his fidthful sulgects. Eichard fell while besieging the Castle of Chains, near Limoges, in France, and was succeeded in 1199 by bis brother John. John. began to beion a. d. 1199. died 1216. V. John was one of the worst and meanest kings that ever reigned in England.
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