{"product_id":"2940011831850","title":"The Complaint of Peace","description":"HISTORY OF ENGLAND\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I  \u003cbr\u003eAncient Britain—Cæsar's Invasion—Britain a Roman Province—Boadicea—Lyndin or London—Roman Legions Withdrawn—Angles and Saxons—Cerdic—Teutonic Invasion—English Kingdoms Consolidated  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.   \u003cbr\u003eAugustine—Edwin—Cædmon—Bæda—Alfred—Canute—Edward the Confessor—Harold—William the Conqueror  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.   \u003cbr\u003e\"Gilds\" and Boroughs—William II.—Crusades—Henry I.—Henry II.—Becket's Death—Richard I.—John—Magna Charta  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.   \u003cbr\u003eHenry III.—Roger Bacon—First True Parliament—Edward I.—Conquest of Wales—of Scotland—Edward II.—Edward III.—Battle of Crécy—Richard II.—Wickliffe  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.   \u003cbr\u003eHouse of Lancaster—Henry IV.—Henry V.—Agincourt—Battle of Orleans—Wars of the Roses—House of York—Edward IV.—Richard III.—Henry VII.—Printing Introduced  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI.   \u003cbr\u003eHenry VIII.—Wolsey—Reformation—Edward VI.—Mary  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII.   \u003cbr\u003eElizabeth—East India Company Chartered—Colonization of Virginia—Flodden Field—Birth of Mary Stuart—Mary Stuart's Death—Spanish Armada—Francis Bacon  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII.   \u003cbr\u003eJames I.—First New England Colony—Gunpowder Plot—Translation of Bible—Charles I.—Archbishop Laud—John Hampden—Petition of Right—Massachusetts Chartered—Earl Strafford—Star Chamber  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX.   \u003cbr\u003eLong Parliament—Death of Strafford and Laud—Oliver Cromwell—Death of Charles I.—Long Parliament Dispersed—Charles II  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X.   \u003cbr\u003eAct of Habeas Corpus—Death of Charles II.—Milton—Bunyan—James II.—William and Mary—Battle of the Boyne  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI.   \u003cbr\u003eAnne—Marlborough—Battle of Blenheim—House of Hanover—George I.—George II.—Walpole—British Dominion in India—Battle of Quebec—John Wesley  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII.   \u003cbr\u003eGeorge III.—Stamp Act—Tax on Tea—American Independence Acknowledged—Impeachment of Hastings—War of 1812—First English Railway—George IV.—William IV.—Reform Bill—Emancipation of the Slaves  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII.   \u003cbr\u003eVictoria—Famine in Ireland—War with Russia—Sepoy Rebellion—Massacre at Cawnpore  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV.   \u003cbr\u003eAtlantic Cable—Daguerre's Discovery—First World's Fair—Death of Albert—Suez Canal—Victoria Empress of India—Disestablishment of Irish Branch of Church of England—Present Conditions  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV   \u003cbr\u003eDeath of Queen Victoria—Russo-Japanese War  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHISTORY OF IRELAND   \u003cbr\u003ePre-Christian Ireland—From Augustine to English Conquest—From Henry II. to Originally \"Querela Pacis.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesiderius Erasmus \u003cbr\u003ehas the personification of peace come to earth to deliver her verdict on \u003cbr\u003ethe human race. She chastises kings and princes, church leaders, \u003cbr\u003enoblemen and ordinary soldiers alike for betraying their Christian values \u003cbr\u003eby waging unjust and unnecessary wars. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt:\u003cbr\u003ePeace speaks in her own person.\u003cbr\u003eTHOUGH I certainly deserve no ill treatment from mortals, yet if the insults and repulses I receive were attended with any advantage to them, I would content myself with lamenting in silence my own unmerited indignities and man’s injustice. But since, in driving me away from them, they remove the source of all human blessings, and let in a deluge of calamities on themselves, I am more inclined to bewail their misfortune, than complain of ill usage to myself; and I am reduced to the necessity of weeping over and commiserating those whom I wished to view rather as objects of indignation than of pity.","brand":"PastIsProlog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166602510576,"sku":"2940011831850","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011831850_p0.jpg?v=1763550226","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011831850","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}