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Excerpt from The History of the Life and Times of Edward the Third, Vol. 2 of 2 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from The History of the Life and Times of Edward the Third, Vol. 1 of 2 The Lectures on the History of England which I published during the years 1857 - 1863, ended with the death of Edward the Second. The present volumes, which comprise the Life and Times of Edward the Third, may therefore be considered as a continuation of that work. In a certain sense they may be so; but, inasmuch as they were not written for delivery as Lectures, and have consequently been composed on a different plan, they are in truth a separate and independent work. The fact is that, shortly after beginning my researches into the History of the reign of Edward the Third, with the view of continuing the Lectures which I had been in the habit of delivering to the Chorleywood Association for the Improvement of the Labouring Classes, a change of residence to another neighbourhood led to the discontinuance of my Lectures altogether. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.