CAMEOS

FROM

ENGLISH HISTORY

(SEVENTH SERIES)

THE REBELLION AND RESTORATION.

FROM

ENGLISH HISTORY

THE REBELLION AND RESTORATION

(1642-1678)

BY THE AUTHOR OF

THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE

[

SEVENTH SERIES

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1890

The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved

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UL 16 1890

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PREFACE.

THE present volume embraces a period on which there are a bewildering amount of lights, and on which our feelings are so freshly personal that all that can be done is to endeavour for fact and fairness.

April 30, 1890.

C. M. YONGE.