Excerpt from A Handbook of English History: Based on the Lectures of the Late M. J. Guest and Brought Down to the Year 1880 With a Supplementary Chapter Upon English Literature of the Nineteenth CenturyWhen these two main objections were duly considered, it was found necessary to rewrite the history, and in this way the work has been somewhat condensed, without omitting important facts or apposite comments.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.