IN ENGLISH HISTORY. BY ROBERT VAUGHAN, D.D. VOL. I. REVOLUTIONS OF RACE. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 346 & 348 BROADWAY. 1860. PREFACE. IN N this work the reader will not find everything he would expect to find in a publication bearing the title of a History of England. But it is intended that these pages shall include so much of the past as will suffice to give full presentation and prominence to the great changes in the history of this country, showing whence they have come, what they have been, and whither they have tended. My narrative, accordingly, while not described as a History of England, is designed to serve the purpose for which all such histories have been professedly written. English history embraces much in common with the history of Europe, together with much that has been characteristic of itself; and it is reasonable that Englishmen should be more interested in what has been special to their country, than in details which might have had their place in the history of any one among a large family of states. The question to which this work is designed to present an answer is-What is it that has |