{"product_id":"2940016546155","title":"A Thousand Years With Royalty; A Story Of The English Kings","description":"A Thousand Years With Royalty; A Story Of The English Kings, written by James McNeill Johnson and published in North Carolina in 1913. (112 pages)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...I remember once when a boy, I asked the late James Davis, an old-time schoolmaster, why it was that an author wrote a preface to his book? His answer was that usually the poor man discovered that the book needed an apology. \u003cbr\u003e...This simple compilation is admittedly without intrinsic merit. It had its inception in notes that I had taken some years ago, when assisting my own children in their history lessons. My idea at the time was to induce a personal interest in the king of the time the lesson referred to, and thus render less irksome the task directly in hand. \u003cbr\u003e...Who is it that does not know something of the barren desert that must be traversed before a single blossom of beauty is found in the field of history so rich in luscious browse after it is reached? \u003cbr\u003e...If I shall help some young and impressionable mind over this flowerless waste that has proven an impassable Sahara to so many bright young readers, I shall indeed be a fortunate man. If I fail in this particular, my effort will have proved an entire failure. But even then it is pleasant to think no real harm can have been done, for the labor has been a downright pleasure to me. \u003cbr\u003eJ. McN. Johnson. \u003cbr\u003eAberdeen, N. C, \u003cbr\u003eAugust I, 1913. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...It has been my purpose to write a story that may be read in a winter's night, embracing the forty-one sovereigns that have ruled in England since the Norman Conquest, and in their order of succession to give a short and concise description of each sovereign, such as would be likely to appeal to the minds of the young; but to round out my thousand years indicated in the caption above, it will be necessary for me to hark back about a century and a half—to be exact, one hundred and forty-six years before the Conquest—to find my starting point.\u003cbr\u003e...If it were possible for us to go back to England in the year A. D. 912, just a thousand years ago, we should find that King Alfred the Great had been dead eleven years, and that his son was king,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHRONOLOGICAL INDEX:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSAXON KINGS:\u003cbr\u003eEdward the Elder — Athelstane — Edmund (the Boy King) — Edred (the Boy King) — Edwy the Fair (the Boy King) — Edgar (the Boy King) — Edward, the Martyr — Ethelred, the Unready — Edmund Ironsides \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDANISH KINGS:\u003cbr\u003eCanute, the Dane — Harold Harefoot — Hardi Canute \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSAXON KINGS:\u003cbr\u003eEdward, the Confessor — Harold, Last Saxon King \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNORMAN KINGS:\u003cbr\u003eWilliam I., Conqueror — William II., Rufus — Henry I. — Stephen  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePLANTAGENETS:\u003cbr\u003eHenry II. — Richard I., Coeur de Leon — John (Lackland) — Henry III. — Edward I. — Edward II. — Edward III. — Richard II. — Henry IV. (Lancaster) — Henry V. (Lancaster) — Henry VI. (Lancaster) — Edward IV. (York) — Edward V. (York) — Richard III. (York) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTUDORS: Henry VII. — Henry  VIII. — Edward VI. — Mary Tudor — Elizabeth   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTUARTS:\u003cbr\u003eJames I. — Charles I. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOMMONWEALTH:\u003cbr\u003eOliver Cromwell — General Monk's Army \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTUARTS,  Reinstated:\u003cbr\u003eCharles II. — James II. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNASSAU:\u003cbr\u003eWilliam and Mary — William III.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTUART,  Reinstated:\u003cbr\u003eAnne  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHANOVER:\u003cbr\u003eGeorge I. — George II. — George III. — George IV. — William IV. — Victoria — Edward VII. — George V.","brand":"Digital Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47066823000304,"sku":"2940016546155","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016546155_p0.jpg?v=1763637716","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016546155","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}