EFFIGY OF KING EDWARD III. (From his Monument in
Westminster Abbey.)

Frontispiece MONUMENT OF THOMAS BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK. (In the Choir of St. Mary's Church, Warwick.) . To face 1 MONUMENT OF PHILIPPA, THE QUEEN OF EDWARD III. (In Westminster Abbey.)

.

162

MONUMENT OF EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE. (In Canterbury

Cathedral.)

255

MONUMENT OF WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM, BISHOP OF WIN-
CHESTER. (In Winchester Cathedral.)

267

MONUMENT OF KING EDWARD III. (In Westminster Abbey.) 290

WOODCUTS.

PARIS IN THE 13TH CENTURY. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Essay on the Military Architecture of the Middle Ages." Oxford and London: J. H. and J. Parker.)

To face 21.

G, Hôtel de

A, The Louvre. B, The Temple. c, Palace of King Robert. D, The
Law Courts. E, Notre Dame. F, Saint Geneviève.
Vauvert. H, Château du Bois. 1, House of S. Lazare. K, The
Infirmary. 1, Palace of the Duke of Brittany. м & N, The
Markets. 0,
The Grand-Châtelet. P, The Petit-Châtelet.

THE LOUVRE IN THE TIME OF CHARLES V. (From Viollet-
le-Duc's Dict.)
BASTILLE ST. ANTOINE, AS CONSTRUCTED BY CHARLES V.,
WITH SUBSEQUENT ADDITIONS (Ibid.)

A, The top of the Gate of St. Antoine. B, Walls of Paris. c, Bridge over the Seine. D, The Bastillon.

"Dès le temps du roi Jean, ou même avant cette époque, il existait à l'entrée de la rue Saint-Antoine une porte flanquée de deux hautes tours; Charles V résolut de faire de cette porte une forte bastide. Vers 1369, ce prince donna ordre à Hugues Aubriot, prévôt de Paris, d'ajouter à ces deux tours un ouvrage considérable, composé de six autres tours reliées entre elles par d'épaisses courtines. Dès lors il paraîtrait que la Bastille ne fut plus une porte, mais un fort protégeant la porte Saint-Antoine construite vers le faubourg au nord. La bastille Saint-Antoine conserva toutefois son ancienne entrée; dans la partie neuve, trois autres portes furent percées dans les deux axes, afin de pouvoir entrer dans le fort ou en sortir par quatre ponts jetés sur les fossés. C'était là un véritable fort isolé, fermé à la gorge, commandant la campagne et la ville au loin, indépendant de l'enceinte mais l'appuyant. Le nom de bastille par excellence donné à ce poste indique clairement ce que l'on entendait par bastide au moyen âge."-Viollet-le-Duc. PLAN OF THE PRECINCTS OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY. (From a Map of Westminster, undated, but probably of the time of Queen Elizabeth, in the possession of the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott.) (From Scott's "Gleanings from Westminster Abbey." Second Edition, Parker Oxford.) ▲, Abbey Church. B, Littlington's Bell Tower. c, Cloister. D, St. Margaret's Church. E, Tower over the entrance to Little Dean's Yard. F, Granary and Brewhouse. G, Gatehouse. Broad Sanctuary. 1, Gate to Palace Yard. K, Almonry. L, Orchard. M, Stream of water. N, Westminster Hall. CHAUCER. (From a Drawing in the British Museum.) . EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE (From his Monument in Canterbury Cathedral.)

H,

a, Bassinet. b, Camail of chain mail. c, Epauliers, or shoulderpieces of 4 lames or pieces. d, Rerebraces, or brassarts; armour for the rere-arm. e, Coudes, or elbow-pieces. f, Vambraces; armour for the fore-arm. g, Jupon; a garment of silk, fitting closely on the plastron de fer and hauberk, and on which the royal arms were emblazoned. h, Gauntlets, armed with gads or gadlings (spikes of iron). i, Lower part of the hauberk appearing from under the jupon; it also appears under the arms, and in the spaces left vacant by the epauliers. k, Genouillères, or kneepieces., Greaves, or leg armour. m, Sollerets of six pieces, or lames. n, Spurs; these are rowelled, but do not show in this view. o, Baudrick, or horizontal sword-belt. p, Tilting Helmet with crest.

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THE

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

EDWARD THE THIRD.

A. D. 1327-77.

CHAPTER I.

THE ENGLISH RULE IN IRELAND, AND ITS FATALLY MISCHIEVOUS

CHARACTER.

FOR several years after the release of King David, A.D. 1357. there was peace between England and Scotland, and, therefore, the history of the latter country need not now be pursued any further; but, before returning to the narrative of the events which were occurring in England, it is necessary to give an account of King Edward's government of Ireland, and of the troubles with that country, which about this time sorely vexed England.

The iniquitous laws forbidding marriages between Sketch of the English and Irish, which were passed in 1357, the history have been already briefly noticed; but their object, Conquest and the causes which led to their enactment, cannot be clearly understood without a short sketch of the

of Ireland.